Day 88: December 1st: Hurry up and wait.

Today was interesting, although we did a lot of nothing.

We started off the day by saying goodbye to Katie before she left for work, anticipating leaving by the time she got home. We got moving, Karla hanging out in Katie's apartment while Alicia ran out to the internet cafe (Katie's internet is down) to check on the current situation in Bangkok, as well as to try to get us train tickets up to Chiang Mai tonight. She got a bunch of info (but not tickets), and hurried back to pack up.

We said goodbye to Katie's apartment, and grabbed lunch on our way to the bus station. We received a phone call from Alicia's dad, who had not realized that we were heading up north. He brought up a lot of good points about the current political climate in Thailand, and convinced us that it would be most prudent to stay put at Katie's until the situation in the airport stabilized.

Deciding we needed to do some research, we camped out in the internet cafe, researching all of our exit plans, so to speak. We also e-mailed Katie to tell her we'll be bumming around her place for a while. Being a gracious hostess, she not only assured us that she was happy we stayed, but she also cut out of work for about a half hour to let us back into her apartment.

We went for a little walk once we'd re-settled, and picked up Katie from work. We decided that we needed some supplies (mostly Katie), and went to the mall to do some shopping. But the Thai mall is nothing like the American mall: this mall had 1 floor of grocery store, a floor of electronics, a mish-mash floor and a sports wares/department store floor. It was interesting. And successful! Katie got a new phone, a hot-pot, and a tupperware bin to keep her food from the ants. We were all quite excited about these purchases.

We had dinner at the Pizza Company (again, not your typical experience, but lovely nonetheless), then walked back to Katie's apartment and turned in early after watching the news a bit. Still no progress at the airport. Maybe tomorrow will be better.
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