Becca woke us up on Friday morning at 8.00am with a cheerful smile and a cup of tea, angel girl that she is. She had also printed off the final documents that we needed but had not had time to print. The last 24 hours were so stressful, with a combination of packing up the last of our junk and shipping rubbish to the dump. Racing round to see relatives and friends…… which was great! Its always lovely to see everybody but not in one quick stint. Any way we left for the bus station and were waved off by Becca, my dad Hilary and Poppy and the boys driving madly down the one way street (the wrong way!!). Tehya was amazing on the bus ride she is quite exceptional. We had a five hour wait and check in at the airport, then the flight was delayed by 45 mins. She was very tired by this point and very hungry but true to present form she was cheerful and patient. As soon as we had eaten Tehya went straight to sleep, we did not! There was a lot of turbulence and I did feel complete terror at times, I kept saying to myself turbulence doesn’t make planes crash and it seemed to help and I managed to keep relatively calm. There was one really violent dip and shudder and the lights came on and the air attendants asked people to make sure that our seat belts were secure and at that point I cried out and nearly lost it completely. Tehya woke at breakfast and the three of us experienced a pleasant landing…. I cried!! We got through immigration and baggage collection quickly and easily and with no delays. Finding a taxi for a good price was pain free and the driver was very friendly and pleased to meet Teh. He got lost trying to find the hotel, but that was pretty amusing and we were so glad to be in Bangkok that it all felt fine and we were not rushed to arrive.

All in all I would say it was wonderful….. tiring and I was glad to see a shower….. but really wonderful. I am very very happy to be here!!