Thai ’08 Journal 26

I thought that today was going to be a light day; but it turned out to be just the opposite. As I mentioned yesterday, we did not get enough time to shop in Bangkok, so we went to Saraburi (45 minutes away) today. But there was nothing typically Thai there for them to bring back as gifts. I did quite a bit of walking (I’m over 17,000 pedometer steps already today); and found nada. Hopefully, we will find a few things at the airport in the morning when we check in at 4:00am.

This afternoon I was running like a chicken without a head, tying up the loose ends for the trip, including taking care of the finances with the business office. That took a while, and turned out ok. Instead of us owing them over $400.00, they owe us over $3,000.00. Then the internet went is down here at the house, and the IS people tried for a while to get it back up without success. Later I’ll go over to the College and see if I get on from there. The students went to the spa to have their own Olympic swim meet – pool-lympics! Tonight they took me out to eat! They are an awesome bunch.

It is now almost 11:30pm and we leave in 30 minutes. Let me see if I can get this off before we leave.

…But as you can see I never got it off. But I’m at the airport and they gave me a complimentary pass to the business class lounge, which the students said I should take. They also gave me a great thank-you Thailand polo shirt on which they all signed. Again, what a great bunch!

The sad news is that I’m booked to go through LA, and could not get on the direct flight to Portland. I won’t get in until tonight L