Bangkok Narita Chicago, a trip

[dirtydog]

Life in the suburbs of Chicago I should imagine is quite tame and boring, but nice and safe, different folks want different things I suppose, anyway a wrangler jeep for texpat.



A few of the houses coming up next,none of these have walls or fences, no security grills on the windows, no great big guard dogs, nice size plots of land with loads of dead plants cos it is so poxy cold, reckon next month though it will look great.









Anyway we still got a lot to do but it has to be done real quick as she is cold and homesick, I am tempted to turn up the heating in the suite but then the cold will affect her even more, also if it is too warm in here she won't even go outside, she wont go out for the free breakfast buffet each morning as that early it is way too cold, we also get free evening meals here, but haven't tried them yet, seems we go to a restaurant for lunch and bring back a kilo of food in a doggie bag, damn it is good though.

[sabang]

Do my eyes deceive me?
Ham, at a Jewish funeral.

[kingwilly]

Originally Posted by MeMock

I happened to check my online CC acount and notice that they have made 7 separate withdrawls for the 1 ticket. So instead of $1,300 (35,000 baht) it has cost me $9,100 (245,000 baht).

Originally Posted by Fabian

MeMock, so your credit card statement is proving you wrong. Actually it seems like the online booking worked every of the six times you obviously tried.

I was thinking the same thing too, like a kid repeatedly pushing the same button!

Originally Posted by Fabian

You should try booking on the Lufthansa website then. Afterwards you will think the Thai Airways website is really convenient.

and their hostess are completely obese old and ugly, and they also refuse to serve beer in economy between Jakarta and Singapore, why? cos its a domestic flight??

WTF? two different countries!

Originally Posted by dirtydog

The food is fantastic here, I keep going to the local supermarket here at the shopping mall and keep buying stuff that we can snack on or eat, we aint gonna be able to finish it and it will probably be too much to take back to Thailand, should mention I haven't even started looking at the cheeses yet, got a few spare kilos I am allowed

So could you find any smelly dried squid?

[johnbkk]

Did you have the US flight attendants on your plane from Bangkok? What day did you fly out?

[dirtydog]

So today it was back down to downtown Chicago by train, so first up a couple of pictures of Union Street Train Station, this place is so big and has enough restaurants that you could live there for a couple of months and not get bored, no smoking rooms though





Obviously not all Americans drive Porshes, only the rich ones, to get rich in America you have to supply something that is in demand, not sure if he was a drug dealer or BBQued baby salesman.



Downtown Chicago has millions of taxis, you just flag them down, most of them have English as a second language and are scared of the local evil natives, so they block them off from them selves.
This is Mr Mohhomed Sing taxi, well his name was something like that anyway.



So first stop we need a Thai speaking lawyer, seems Chicago only has the one and he deals in immigration issues, he's gonna have to do as she needs a presence here.

Here is the Thai consulate on North Rush Street.

[jizzybloke]

Any more spooky happenings?

[dirtydog]

Just across the Road from The Thai Consulate is St James Cathedral, it does look a bit odd surrounded by massive tower blocks or skyscrapers.

Taken from their website;

St. James Cathedral, founded in 1834, is the oldest Episcopal congregation in Chicago. Located at the corner of Wabash Avenue and Huron Street, in the bustling North Michigan Avenue neighborhood, we are a 400-member parish representing a broad cross section of people.

St. James has been the Cathedral for the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago since 1955. The diocese encompasses 41,000 members in 127 congregations reaching across the northern part of Illinois, from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi River.

Who was St. James? James, the brother of John and the son of Zebedee and Salome, was a fisherman by trade, who left everything when Jesus called him to become his disciple. After Jesus' death and resurrection, he preached in Samaria, Judea, and Spain. He was the first Apostle to be martyred when, in Jerusalem at age 44, he was stabbed by King Herod Agrippa. A scallop shell is his symbol.

The colors and patterns that frame the pages of our web site are taken from the interior of St. James Cathedral, which is one of the finest examples of Victorian-Gothic stenciling in the world.

St. James Cathedral
Wabash at Huron

Mailing Address & Office:
65 East Huron Street
Chicago, IL 60611
312-787-7360

[dirtydog]

Originally Posted by jizzybloke

Any more spooky happenings?

Yeah, she keeps getting foking Thai idiots phoning her up between 2am and 6am cos the dumb foks don't know nothing about world time differences, this suite is California style so the second floor bedroom is like open, I will post the pics later, but the cnuts keep waking me up as well....

[sunderlandstephen]

Come on m8,airports and food pics

[dirtydog]

Originally Posted by johnbkk

Did you have the US flight attendants on your plane from Bangkok? What day did you fly out?

Do you think I would notice? I have no idea who the fok was serving me or what foking day it was, I mean that is pretty irrelevent shite aint it, anyway they were fat, old and spoke English, I speak Thai, that don't make me a Thai and most cnuts I meet seem to like to insult me and ask what part of Aussie land I come from, I have never ever had sexual relations with a sheep, so why they think I am an Aussie I have no idea.

[dirtydog]

Originally Posted by sunderlandstephen

Come on m8,airports and food pics

Hmmm

Originally Posted by sunderlandstephen

m8

I can see we may have problems with you in the future, this sms speak is not something we are looking for in the top half of the forum, well suited for MKP though, we like to keep stuff in the right forums for ease for people, don't start complaining when your posts get moved to more appropiate forums

[jizzybloke]

When you correct someone telling them you are in fact English/British have they asked you if you know Paul McCartney yet?

[Butterfly]

Originally Posted by Thetyim

DD, Have you eaten any babies yet ?

He is getting fat with all that food, so probably not yet

[dirtydog]

Originally Posted by jizzybloke

have they asked you if you know Paul McCartney yet?

Huh? I have both legs.

[flash]

Originally Posted by dirtydog

so why they think I am an Aussie I have no idea.

Do you look like a criminal?

[dirtydog]

^ I don't think so.

Anyway round the block from the Thai consulate on East Huron is L'Appetito Italian supermarket and restaurant, so that was todays lunch, yes we had to get them to bag up over half of it as no way in the world can 2 people eat 3 American size meals, I got the turkey and ham sandwich and managed half of it, the big ball thing of potato and meat and cheese will be eaten later, and she managed half the pizza slice, whole lot was less than 400baht.



Her cheese pizza slice, this really was massive.



This sandwich was about a foot long and absolutely full of meat, this was the most expensive item at 5.50 bucks.



damn, this was good and I still got half left.

The bread crumb ball thing I ate in the evening, potato, beef, cheese and vetetables, damn this stuff is good.

[NickA]

Originally Posted by dirtydog

so time for some bagels

Shit, another dog eating thread

[Texpat]

I'd imagine you're starting to kittung for a mysterious 7-11 hotdog about now.

[Robbie Dye]

Originally Posted by dirtydog

Ok this is like a major journey, not like that poofy memocks one, I mean we are talking great big planes, not girly little helicopters that can do 50 mph, so, we got basically a 20 odd plus hour journey into the wastelands of America, they call it Chicago, personally I think they could just shorten it to "Cold".

Now your gonna start at Bangkok airport, after seeing all the other airports as we travelled I have come to realise that Thai people do not need toilets, or if they did they aint gonna find one in Bangkok, but hell all they need is a banana leaf outside some where and they are alright, well I assume that was the planners thought when the airport was built, ie the Thais shite where they like,obviously, this may cause some distress to farangs, but hell fok it, you want a pony just do it as Nike says, do erm on the stairs or anywhere that is a bit quiet, it really don't mater and it is only a bit of poo.

The Bangkok airport really hasn't got a lot going for it, it is staffed by Thai people of minimal inteligence, come 3am all there brains have gone into childhood regression, everything is expensive, yeah, even by American standards, it is big, it is shite...



This is the check in for United, they are foked, I really don't no why anybody uses them, old planes, hostesses older than my mum, its really not that good.



I really think the Thai print should have been bigger, why is the English so big?



Nice clear plastic bins so you can'tplace bombs at the Bangkok airport.



Inside view of Bangkok Airport.



In Bangkok airport of course some things aint open 24 hours, this can be seen at this restaurant.



Of course you get a plane, here is our united plane.



There really should be a game in the games room describing airline food.