Heading North to Chang Mai...

Hey guys I haven't had wi-fi the past few days but I finally took a moment to sit down in an internet cafe and check emails, facebook, and blog a little. Alec and I were supposed to leave for Chang Mai 3 days ago but we kept staying out too late with the girls from Norway...I said they were from Sweden in my last post. Late like 5 and 6 am late lol. Bangkok really never sleeps. Most of the restaurants and bars where we are staying are open 24 hours. I hear Chang Mai is a little calmer and not so hectic. I got a full body herbal thai massage 2 days ago that was heaven and a foot and leg massage yesterday that was a bit of heaven as well. A lot of the workers remember us from the restaurants and are happy too see us when we come back. I was talking with one of the waiters from the restaurant we like to eat at and he told me the employees work 14 hours a day 7 days a week for 300 baht a day (about $.75 per hour). A lot of them come over to work as waiters in Bangkok from Cambodia and Laos because the pay is better...wow humbling. Yesterday, Alec and I took a tuk tuk with the girls down to a huge mall in the city called the Siem Center and watched the Dark Knight Rises at an IMAX theater. It was a bunch of fun. A couple days ago the street we were staying on flooded because of heavy rain we had for a couple hours. I can't put any pictures up because I'm on desktop at an internet cafe but the next time I can use wi-fi on my iphone I'll put some up. Oh ya remember when I said at the end of my last blog I had a funny story for you...here it is...the second day we were here we went to the Vietnam Embassy to get our visas and left our passports with them because they need it to put the visa sticker in it. So the next morning after we woke up pretty hungover lol we left to pick up our visas and we couldn't find our passports hahaha. We both thought we had lost them and it was only the third day. We were freaking out so we took a taxi to the US Embassy to get an emergency visa...lucky they were closed on that Friday so we didn't pay the $150 for a new one. When we walked down to the Vietnam Embassy the guy handed us our passports and we both looked at each other like wow how dumb are we hahaha. Alrighty tighty I'm about to take one more stroll down Kao San Road (look it up) before we have to get on the bus to Chang Mai. I miss you all and love you all. Hey Mike...no ping pong show for me hahaha. It's crazy out here. Until next time...Love