35 hours after leaving Calvin by bus to Chicago, plane to Korea ( with a 5 hour layover where many of us slept on the chairs in the airport), and plane to Bangkok, we finally arrived at our hotel in Bangkok.  Three hours later, we got up at 6:00am Saturday to find some breakfast and head for a day of tours.Breakfast was a bowl of "meat soup" and a bowl of rice.  The meat soup had a lot of different types of meat in it:  pork, tongue, liver, intestine, and some greens.  Many of us really enjoyed the rice and a Coke :-) 

For the rest of the day, we had a tour guide and bus driver drive us around some of the historic sites of Bangkok.  We marveled at how the driver can maneuver a huge bus around tight corners all while driving on the "wrong" side of the street.  In the afternoon we had a boat tour down the river.  We had a great lunch (buffet with lots of good food), and all sang Happy Birthday to Val Hortsman. Many of the students also took an opportunity to ride an elephant.  

We will try to post some pictures in the next few days.