Made it to Bangkok

Our last night in Phuket was so memorable. We went into a tiny local beach "restaurant" literally a hut on the beach, sand floor, no doors just open to beach and sat among two men watching cartoon network with a small boy while two tables of Thai women played intense card games. We kind of felt like we got to be a fly on the wall to a common evening in southern Thailand. After that we walked on the beach and it was the time between all of the tourist crowd leaving the beach and coming back for dinner so it was just us and many local shop and restaurant owners with their children playing soccer and taking swim before dinner crowd came. We laughed and watched and even were included in some of the fun. I got to try to teach a young boy how to whistle through his hands in the water and it was so sweet to be smiling and laughing and teaching without being able to understand each other's language.

Today we had a couple hours on the beach before catching our flight to Bangkok. The flight was very scary for me. We unexpectedly hit turbulence and the plane dropped so hard that everyone's drinks spilled everywhere and a woman screamed out loud. My heart was racing the rest of the flight. Dusty was his usual calm. He was just glad we had declined drink/snack service. We arrived in time to drop off our things and go have a nice dinner. Bangkok is definitely different than the slower laid back pace of Phuket. It is a huge city and busy, but we are ecstatic to be here because we know we will be meeting Kaiya tomorrow morning!! Will try to update you as soon as we can about our first meeting, but we unfortunately do not have internet in our room (no lan connection on our mac).
Good night!