First Stop – Denver Airport

My dad, mom and I drove to my grandparent’s house in Denver so they could give us a ride to the airport.

At the airport we had to get a porter and a BIG trolley to help us with our 6 huge duffle bags.  Each bag weighed 50 pounds!  We have so much to bring because lots of people sent us stuff to take to their families in Nepal, because the mail isn’t very good in Nepal and you can’t just send people stuff.  We also are taking lots and lots of donated children’s clothes because there are lots of orphans and poor people in Nepal.  Only 2 of the duffel bags have our stuff in them, and we have so much because we are trekking for a week and need things like sleeping bags and hiking boots for our trek.

I felt so happy to be at the airport because traveling is one of my favorite things.  My favorite part of airports are the stores!  At the Denver airport I like going to the toy store.

After arriving at the airport, we had to wait two hours for our flight, but finally we got on the first of our three airplanes, now I was really excited, because this is the real traveling part.

The first plane was small with no movies, but that is OK because the flight to Los Angeles is pretty short (2 hours) and I fell asleep on the plane.

Second Stop – Los Angeles

At LA we arrive on one side of the airport and have a long walk to the other side for our second flight.  This walk feels good after sitting on the plane.  We didn’t board the second airplane until around mid-night, but I wasn’t tired because I was so excited!  Plus I slept on the first plane.

Our second plane is awesome!  It is really big and you can watch lots of movies on your own movie screen, starting and stopping the movies whenever you want.  It also has video games you can play.  I was so awake when we boarded that I watched a whole movie before falling asleep (at after 2 AM Denver time).

Because we were flying the same direction the earth rotates it was dark for the entire 17 hour flight, only getting sunrise as we came in to land in Bangkok.  I was awakened for breakfast after sleeping 8 hours on the plane, but I don’t like the food on the airplanes very much.

LA to Bangkok

First Half of LA to Bangkok

Second half of LA to Bangkok

Third Stop Bangkok

We arrived in Bangkok at about 7:00AM, just in time for breakfast, or should we eat dinner…Although it is 7:00AM here it is dinner time in Denver because we are now on the other side of the world!  Although we left on Saturday night we arrived in Bangkok Monday morning!  That is because we crossed the international date line.  That is a line in the pacific where the day changes, so on one side of the line it is Sunday morning but the other side of the line it is Monday morning.

In Bangkok airport there is a very large three headed dragon snake with people pulling on it.  We took a picture of me by it.

My dad and I did some shopping and bought elephant T-shirts, I think elephants are people’s favorite animals in Thailand because there are lots of elephant things in the stores like t-shirts and carvings.  There are lots of shops here with lots of beautiful perfume smells and beautiful jasmine flower smells.  We also bought an orchid for my grandma (who I call Amala) who we will see in Nepal. 

Now we are waiting in a coffee shop eating croissants waiting for our final flight to Kathmandu. 

 

Bangkok to Kathmandu