BANGKOK

Megan and I left Koh Tao via a high speed 2 hr catamaran. They were blasting eminem over the speakers which was highly inappropriate because there were kids on board...We assumed that whoever selected the music didn't have a grasp of english swear words. It was pretty funny/random to hear eminem on a ferry in Thailand. It was another 8 hr bus ride from the pier to Bangkok. We met up with Christine (yay!) and checked into our guesthouse that was a stones throw from the Kao San Road. We had an early night but we were kept up by the crazy soccer fans watching the world cup in the bar downstairs. The next day we shopped Kao San--Our plans to get out and see more of the city didn't work out. I bought lots of great, cheap stuff on the kao san though. We wandered the streets for a while trying to find a bank or currency exchange for US dollars (Cambodia uses US dollars more often than its own "Riel" currency because 1USD = 4100 Riel, which = a stack of bills that don't fit in your wallet). We went out to one of the main bars on the Kao San and enjoyed a beer tower...Too hard to explain in words, but hopefully I'll get a chance to put up photos soon. We had a reasonably early night because our bus to Cambodia left at 7:30am the next morning. More about Cambodia later...