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The trip hour look tiring, but the tiring process was actually started before the tirp. Our departure time was 6.00 am (approximately) from MLU to ATL, so we had to depart our apartment at 4.20 am--driving from Ruston to Monroe. Talking about the wake-up time, if we slept, we had to wake up pretty much super early. Our regular sleeping time is 2 AM. Mon and I didn't sleep, as we were afraid that we might wake up late and miss the flight. We watched 10,000 B.C. (a movie) to keep waking us up, but Mon told me that the movie was so boring, and then she took a little nap.
July 12th, around 4.00 am CDT (Central Daylight Time), I called Dr. Box to remind him about our flight as he promised to take us to the MLU airport. He picked up the phone and thanked me for the reminder--he forgot!!! (he confess to us later during the way to the airport).
4.20 am CDT (approximately) Dr. Box came to our apartment, and took us to MLU.
5.00 am CDT (approximately) We arrived at MLU, checked in, and waited for almost an hour to board. Here, we checked in only two luggages (one is mine, another one is mon's). The rest--my backpack, Mon's backpack, 21" luggage (packed with Wii, and other electronic stuffs--we don't want to load this luggage under the plane because of the fragile items in it), and a business/computer case (loaded with books)--were took onboard. They're pretty heavy -_-.
6.00 am CDT (app.) The plane depart from MLU.
Approximately 8.30 am EDT (Eastern Daylight Time) The plate arrived ATL. The flight took around 1.30 Hr.
9-10 am EDT, I was hungry and find something to put into my stomach. The panda express was my choice.
Sometimes around 10 am EDT, while we're using a free WiFi at the food court, we found a pianist and a saxophonist playing a Jazz music (together). I saw them exchanged their business cards, so I think one of them would be a tourist. By appearance, I guessed that the black guy should be a US, and the chinese-looking guy might be a tourist. It was like they were having a live and improvising show.
These artists were so cool
1.15 pm CDT, the plane depart from ATL to ICN (Korea). In summary we were at ATL, waiting for the connection flight--for approximately 5 Hrs.
The flight from ATL to ICN took approximately 15 hours, we virtually "lived" on that plane. The food was tasting great!!!
The air hostesses were cute and very polite. I did not sleep much on this flight (maybe only a few hours) as there were so many movies I'd like to watch available in this flight!!! There was a touch screen LCD monitor in front of every seat (actually, at the back of every seat) and you can interact with it!!! Movie, music, information, games all on your demand. There, I watched "August rush", "Spiderwick Chronicle's", "Vantage Point" and a documentary about the earth. This was quite an entertainment, and I was so happy to fly with Korean Air.
By the way, their English was terrible and horrible. I have to focus all of my hearing sense and guess almost every terms they said when they try to report me something via the central speaker. To choose a meal, I picked whatever I understand the terms in its name. For example, I had two choice in my first meal "Korean ... (I could not pick the rest)" and "...(something) bi bob". Oh shoot!!! The politeness and cuteness did not do anything in the English speaking ability. My intuition told me to say "the Korean". That's it :) Lucky me, this Korean something tasted very nice.
The Korean something I had as the first meal
Approximately 15 hours later, around 5 pm KST (Korean Standard Time), we arrived ICN. Here, we had to pass security checkpoint again (the first time we were checked at MLU). My carry-on luggage was suspected, as I expected (becuase there were a lot of electornic devices in it). A staff opened my bag and seemed to be surprised. She picked my wireless router (Mon want to use this one at her house) and ask me, "What is it?". "Wireless Router", I answered. She got confused, like she didn't understand what I was saying. I repeat agian, "It is a wireless router". "wireless ruuter?", it was like she didn't understand the word "router", or maybe my toung was suck so that she couldn't comprehend what I said. However, she didn't have any problem with me, and I can safely passed the security checkpoint.
My hunger and desire for Korean food drag me and Mon to find something to eat. Food in ICN airport was expensive. This meal cost around $20+ (or 20,000+ won).
My dish
Monn's dish
PEPSI in Korean
In addition, we were too clever about the currency. In ICN, we expected that they would only use Korean currency (won), so we sought for currency exchange. We bought 38,xxx won (didn't remember the exact number) for $40. Then, we went to the food court (it's time to eat hahaha). Near the cashier counter, we realized that they accept USD, with the same conversion rate at the currency exchange. SHOOT!!! If we buy USD back with the leftover (from our meal), we had to pay 1,0xx won for a dollar!!! Holy cow, that was expensive. So, mon had to carry the leftover to Thailand and change them to Thai Baht later.Approximately 8.30 pm KST, after spend most of the time waiting for boarding (around 3 hrs), we depart KST to BKK. I was so happy to see Thai air hostesses in Korean Airline (they were just Thai--by nationaligty, or speaking language--not Thai Airway hostesses). I spent most of the time sleeping in this flight. And then, after approximately 5 more hours in flying, we arrived Suvarnabhumi around 11.50 pm ICT (Indo-China time, or Thai time).
All the custom processes were quickly proceed, and then we waited for the bags. We got our bags, then went home.
I'd heard from Nimon that Tee+ were also there at Suvarnabhumi airport. I was so sorry for you, Tee+, my friend, I didn't see you (I dunno where were you waiting). However, many thanks for your big heart to be there.
Ironically, I will have to depart from BKK to Egypt tonight (July 15th) T_T
See you all again after July 20.
