Day one was travel day. It was long, but not too eventful. My thoughts include:
1. Asian airline food... Avoid it. Maybe that is a trend among all airline food. It didn't all taste bad, it just sat in my stomach for the next 30 hours. Pretty sure it's still in my stomach, all packaged still. Pretty sure none of that stuff was biodegradable or real. The highlight was the cheesecake icecream from Korea to Chiang Mai. Yummm
2. Swollen feet. I did not know my feet could look so fat. All that sitting did wonders for me trying to fit them back into my chacos at the end of the flight. I thought it was a lost cause, I settled for letting them cut off my circulation for a bit.
3. Security...oh security. I wore the most harmless outfit possible. yoga type pants and a white t shirt. I thought it was harmless right?! Well... there was this TINY tip of metal on the end of the drawstring on my pants that went off in that full body scan everyone is talking about these days. Therefore it sensed something in my groin area (I hate that word, and easily hate it even more now). A guy came on the security guards walkie- talkie and I overhear him say "white female in white shirt needs a groin search." A GROIN SEARCH!!!! What the heck is that??? The guard looks at me in my tight outfit and sees this tiny little metal tip on my pants. She probably saw the fear on my face still present from hearing the words groin and search in the same sentence. She felt sorry for me so opted for the "full body search" instead... oh lucky me...
She proceeded to do the full body pat down opposed to this mystery "groin" one. She sure did full body, didn't miss one square inch that's for sure. Here are my thoughts through this process:
a. Why would you EVER want that job? Then I quickly decided I didn't want to know the answer
b. Good thing I am able to laugh through this whole thing because it could have been tramatic!
c. Whoever decided to name it the full body search must have had one...wow
d. How could the groin pat down possibly be any worse? Then I decided I don't want that answer either
e. I need to find scissors before my next security check
f. That poor child behind me in line saw anatomy 101 way too early in life
g. And finally, I think I would have rather walked though it again without my pants on. It would have been much less intrusive.
4. These blankets were awesome. It took all my willpower not to snatch one, even though it says not to...luckily I may lose my conscience by the way home...
5. 24 hours of travel. 30 hours total. Leaving at 8:00am on Saturday morning and arriving at 11:00pm Sunday night. We made it!!!
Sawadii Kha Thailand!
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