Wednesday, April 9, 2014

April 10: Bangkok

Hello! (THIS POST WAS UPDATED- CHECK THIS OUT!)

Today, we visited the Grand Palace, Ayudthaya and Khao San Street in Bangkok. Tomorrow, we are flying to Chiang Mai and will be there for a few days.

We were happy to see that Tyrel Wilding arrived safely.

Guess who Tyrel brought with him?!?!?
(Or who kept him company when he was lonely on the way over here)

Traveling is not all fun and games. There's a lot of time spent waiting around and that's an unavoidable part of traveling. However, we know how to have fun while waiting!  We are looking forward to seeing what the day will bring us.
 
Our room in Bangkok

Tour guide taking a picture of Tyrel in front of a carving of Buddha.

Us- a complete group!
The head of Buddha fell down due to a bad storm and then a tree grew around the Buddha Statue's head. The name of the temple that we visited is the Wat Mahathat Temple in Ayuthaya.

We toured temples today.




 
Our drivers- we had cool transportation!

We ate from some street vendors. Delicious!

 
What... Bugs, scorpions and frogs? What for? Dinner???!!!!!

Tyrel bravely ate a scorpion and other local delicacies.. They were definitely chock full 'o protein!
 
 
 Cheers from Thailand!


April 7-9 Bangkok, Pattaya & Ko Larn Island

Greetings from Thailand!

Getting access to the Internet has been a bit difficult but we hope for more smooth sailing from here on out. We are having a wonderful time so far and we have adjusted to the change in time zones.

Here are some pictures with brief explanations for your enjoyment:


We were really happy to arrive Bangkok and we were all very tired! We met our tour guide and our friend, Jay Bunnag at the airport.
 
 
We visited the Floating Market and enjoyed our lunch there.




 

 
We toured the 3-D Painting Museum
 
Unfortunately, the sponsors realized Thailand was not for them and decided to go to Venice, Italy. We are confident that the students will be just fine by themselves :)
(The 3-D painting museum in Thailand was really cool!)
 
We enjoyed a wonderful view of Pattaya!
 
 
 Enjoying seafood at Pattaya Beach
 
 On the boat to Ko Larn Island - To enjoy one of Thailand's wonderful beaches.
 
 Ko Larn Island 
 
 
We have traveled back to Bangkok to pick up Tyrel Wilding (See April 10th).


Sunday, April 6, 2014

April 6: At the Albuquerque Airport

April 6, 2014
 
At the Albuquerque Sunport: (From L to R) Joi, Amberley, Tim, Kendrick, Jesus, Hadassah & Patrick
 
Not Photographed: Tyrel Wilding who is in Washington DC representing NMSD at the National Academic Bowl. He will be joining us in 2 days.