Sitting next to a fat guy and eating two bowls of soup

Sunday, May 18, Monday, May 19.  Hello from Thailand everyone!  I got in late last night with Dad at about 2 am or so.  I'm now up and my body is very confused, and it will get more confused later this afternoon.  But I'm excited because today we are going to go get things started!  I'm off!

Yesterday's new experience was to sit next to a fat guy on the LONG flight from Detroit to Toyko.  Whenever I get on a plane of any length trip, one of my quiet prayers is to not have anyone next to me first of all, to have someone who is NOT fat second of all, and to have someone who does NOT smell third of all.  I knew there would be someone next to me because I checked online, and thankfully he didn't smell, but he was fat.  No making fun here.  It's just difficult to sit for 13 hours next to someone who is overflowing into my seat.  So I didn't sleep much.  Eating was hard too because to eat, he had to stick his elbows out a little and that got in my way.  Oh well, it was a good exercise in acceptance, because of course I couldn't do anything about it.  He was perfectly nice and otherwise, the flights went smoothly.

Today's new experience was to drink the soup that comes with kao man kai.  I've done that before but I was so hungry that I ate the kao man kai, the soup for it, AND the soup for the kao na ped that Dad ate.  And I'm still a little hungry!  Oh well, I'll make up for it later at lunch right?  Well, gotta go start to get ready.  We're leaving at 9:30 and so I need to shower and do all of that.  Hope all is well with everyone and I will talk to you tomorrow!  Bye!