Still in Bangkok and bored stiff

We're still in Bangkok. The first days it was fun. We saw Ursula again (whom we'd met last year in Burma). And we hang out a bit with the american guy that we sat next to on the bus from the airport. But both have left now and Kyaw Kyaw hasn't shown up yet. He's spent the better part of the week waiting for his thai visa and of course he needed a day to get the special exit paper that he needs so he can leave Burma. And now there are no tickets and they give him a hard time about not booking a return flight (he needs a return flight to get into Thailand but of course we already have that part covered). Anyways, Sandra has spend most of her time in internet cafe's trying to sort things out and trying to call to Burma. Which is an exercise in patience and should be listed as a patience-training program somewhere. Then again it would probably be too expensive since even if you have no connection you're charged for trying to get through (after hotel and food it must register as the most expensive item on our expenses list. And definitely the item with the worst cost/quality ratio). And even if you get through it seems quite frustrated. I 've seen Sandra bang her head on the table a few times since she got through and then got someone on the line who spoke just enough english to not understand a thing and still keep on trying...

It seems like we'll soon start to see the end of this ordeal though. Hopefully Kyaw Kyaw will arrive tomorrow or the day after. If nothing goes wrong of course. Sandra will not think it over until she actually sees him coming through the doors at the airport. She thinks customs might just as easily give him a hard time... We (Frans & me) have tried to convince her that we could of course go to Yangon. But she claims she has way to much stuff and is surely not allowed to carry all that on the plane. We tried to tell her that she could of course leave some here in Bangkok and pick it up next month when she has to do a visa run. But she has heard rumors that it is possible again to extend a visa for anther month and since she doesn't like flying she prefers to wait. No matter how boring it is here. So we try to stick it out *sigh*