Day 4: No flights to anywhere

Who would've imagined that our day 4 and final day and the day of our travel back to India from Bangkok would be the last day of new year celebrations in Thailand. Who would've imagined that there would be floods in Nakhon Si thammarat and trains and roads would be blocked. Thankfully, we took the first ferry out. We had a choice between Phuket airport and Krabi airport. I chose Phuket to increase our chances.

Once at the airport, I went to Thai airways and saw that there was a really long standby line. Huh. No tickets. Went to air Asia. No tickets. We were first on standby here. Orient Thai. Overbooked. Bangkok airways - only one ticket to pattaya, two hours from bangkok. Some hope. Malaysian airlines. No tickets.

After missing three flights, my standby got confirmed on Thai airways via business class. I flew leaving Pradeep back in Phuket with no idea if would make it. He did via Nok Air. On the plane I met an Australian finance guy settled in Guangzhou. He was reading a book called the next 100 years. He told me about possible war in 2012 and other oil stories. Ahem. We worried some fellow passengers with this conversation.

Pradeep and I reunited in phaya Thai train station. It's the last stop out of suvarnabhumi airport. We ate lunch at a really local restaurant. We walked around and finally ended up at a local mall. Played arcade games with Thai school kids. Then went to. Thai-Korean movie called The Kick. The girl at the ticket booth kept telling us "but it's in Thai" and we said exactly. It was quite an enjoyable movie. We couldn't complete it because I had to rush to the airport to shop for suz.

I managed to anger a tuk tuk driver and he offered "you wanna fight?" No I didnt fight. We flew back and I made it in time to Ahaan's birthday. The inflight magazine had an interesting article on luang prabang in Laos.

Wonderful!