December 27 - Up at 4:30 am this morning to leave for JFK at 5 am. I came downstairs to find Casey, Casey2, and Greg all sprawled around the family room watching TV. Casey had decided that the best thing for her would be to stay up all night long and then she could sleep on the plane. Casey2 came over after work to join her and Greg stayed up as well. We got to JFK around 7:15 am and had plenty of time before our flight at 9:15. Our flight ended up leaving around 10 am and we settled in for our 16 hour flight to Hong Kong. I hoped to sleep some of the way but ended up not being able to sleep more than about an hour.
The airlines, Cathay Pacific, was quite comfortable for such a long flight, but going business class would have been much better. Anyways, they had lots of entertainment in the form of movies, music, etc. on the inflight tvs. I watched Mamma Mia, Get Smart, The Holiday, Ghost Town, Sex and the City episodes, Frasier, 24 and probably other stuff as well. I think Casey slept more than I did, but not much more.
It was pretty cool when we flew over the North Pole. It was pitch black outside with just a little bit of light along the horizon. We landed in a bit of fog in Hong Kong and didn't get to see how beautiful that part of it was. I took pictures during my 5 hour layover on the way home from Thailand because it was so beautiful.
December 28 - We finally arrived in Bangkok around 6 pm at night. We went through immigration and then gathered our luggage. Unfortunately one of Casey's bags did not make the flight from Hong Kong. Casey had to go through the paperwork of locating her bag and letting them know where to send it when it arrived on a later flight. We were so exhausted by this time and starting to get irritable.
Finally done, we met up with the transfer agent and were loaded into a car to go to the Siam Hotel. The hotel was beautiful and very accommodating about getting our suitcase when it arrived later that night. We made a quick phone call to Larry to let him know that we had made it safely, showered, and then went to bed at 9 pm. We were both so glad to be in our beds.
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