A quick and funny update...

Just a heads up this is going to be out of order, but its what's happening to us now and we just want to share it as its going on...

We are stuck in Bangkok! When we flex out of Myanmar we were looking forward to being in a new country and being on a new part of the contient but lo and behold our plans as such have failed and we are sitting in Bangkok, again.

So far we spent ALL day (yesterday) in the airport only to discover that our 9pm flight (which was pushed back from 5pm) to Dhaka was delayed until 5:30 am, this morning. Of course, the counters here only open 2 hours prior to departure, so we didn't find this out until 7pm even though I bet they knew it. So... we all (all 12 of us on the flight) checked in and waited for a van to a hotel, expecting to go across the street or something. Instead they took us a FULL HOUR away to the OLD airport, where apparently they still have hotel connections or something. The new airport and the old airport are fully off the maps of bangkok- one off the top of the map and the other off to the right, which tells you how ridiculous this is, especially since to get there you have to drive through the middle of Bangkok and it's glorious traffic. Anyway, they fed us at 10pm and said the pickup time was now 6am. Then they called in the middle of the night to say it was at 10am. Then we got up for breakfast and found out the flight leaves at 4:30. Now... who knows! BUT they are feeding us (bad food) and we stayed in teh first real hotel room of the trip- with towels and a tv and everything. We stayed up and watched "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire last night, which somehow made me feel better..."

So it could be much worse. When we first heard about the delay we were preparing to spend ANOTHER 12 hours in the airport (thank goodness we found where the employees eat, about 1/3 to 1/4 of the price inside the airport). But right now we are still scheduled to go so hopefully by the time you read this we will be in Bangladesh. I hope this doesn't serve as a premonination for the rest of our travel in Bangladesh, otherwise we will never make it out of Dhaka!