First Night in Bangkok

 We arrived without incident. Even had time to check out the airport lounge feel like we are doing okay with jet lag since we were each able to sleep on the plane. Okay in the capital city get through immigration and customs although we were at the end of our group and glad we had an express pass from the airlines, pick up the bags and off to find a SIM card for Dan's phone. We are bound and determined to get the electronics working for us this trip.  I changed my carrier to T mobile because of red international data so we think I am set. Oh how wrong we were. Purchased Dans SIM card although he doesn't quite understand how it works. Perhaps more jet lag than we thought

Our first Bangkok challenge because there will be more, used the ATM to get local money. That only took 3 tries and with 10000 baht we think we just might have enough to get through. We now proceed to the taxi stand a great system you wait in a line get a ticket and wait for the driver to come. Except our driver had little English and it took several minutes to find the hotel name although we had a street address that he didn't understand. He did fine with the hotel name once we communicated. I just hope we get there. Now the money changing issues come into play. We decided to tip the cab driver the smallest bill we had was 100 baht so we gave him the 100 to determine it was $2.85 in US dollars. I am not sure if it is an insult or not. He did seem happy for the tip but not sure of the 57 cents we gave the bell hop person. Guess we need to get the conversions down.  pat before start parting with the money so as to not insult.

Off to explore a little before dinner. I am after street food and to see what is about. We have 2 major shopping centers around the block from our hotel not to mention several "really good street food vendors " according to the hotel staff.  Dan's answer to which vendor to go to was I am Leary to eat street food on my first day in Bangkok. He has no sense of adventure so back to the hotel dinning room. Okay maybe we can venture out tonight,  dinner and 2 drinks he is passed out and I am not far behind him. So the first night in Bangkok is an early one for us old folks. I guess there is always tomorrow