THAILAND!! Part 1...

**I'll be splitting our trip post in multiple parts since it would be too overwhelming for me to do a ginormous post of our trip in its entirety.**

OHMIGOODNESS!!! The time finally came to when we would be able to fly out and see my fam!!! I was so excited and nervous--excited because we'll get to spend almost 2 weeks with them and nervous because I haven't seen them in YEARS... like, 15-ish years to be more exact o_O Our next trip there CANNOT be that long ever again!

I'm glad that Sophia was so excited to be going! The long flight time (13 hours to Korea, 2 hour layover, and another 5 hours to Bangkok) made me a little nervous as to how she was going to be. I'm glad to report... she was a TROOPER!!! Maybe it's because Eli and I kept on telling her that it's a long flight or maybe it's all the activities that was available to her... or just a combo of both.

We got through check-in and security pretty smoothly and had just enough time to grab a quick morning bite before boarding. While I was in line to spend a million dollars on our morning breakfast, I turned around and saw this...

Things Eli will do to get a smile, laugh, or giggle from Sophia =D

Btw, that dog pillow on top of Eli's head came in very handy and was one of the better purchases I made to prep for this trip =) So, any of youse who will be traveling with some young'ns, I highly suggest making this pillow purchase =)

Camera + waiting to board = this (Haha!)

Oh, I'd like to mention that in the midst of moving 2 days before our trip (yes, of all days of the year, we moved on Dec 24th), my camera charger went a-missing. No way were we going to have time to find it since we still had to pack for our trip. So, all I could hope was that my iPhone 5s camera would do the job and that I wouldn't run out of memory (as I often did on my previous phone, which only had 16 gb... good thing I upgraded to a bigger memory this time around!). Of course, the pics wouldn't come out as good as if it were a regular digital camera, but at this point, I have no prob settling for phone pics! Fortunately, I was able to shoot over 1000 pics on my phone!! YAY!!!! My love for Apple deepened on this trip, hahaha!!!

In line to board... YAY!!! This is really happening!!

Seated and read to go!!

Was so thankful for this! 

I cannot say enough how glad I was to see the individual screens on each of our seats!! AND we were able to charge our mobile devices, FREAKIN' YAY!!!!! I was so relieved for this the most--we had the option to entertain ourselves without the worry of a dead battery. Definitely helped with the 13 hour flight to Korea. Speaking of which, we traveled with Korea Air and they are excellent!! AWESOME customer service and SUPER friendly! The flight attendants all looked absolutely Asian cute (some of you might know what I mean by this, others of you won't) and, I hate to admit this, but they all looked almost the same to me =( I'm totally Americanized, wahhhhh!! I can't differentiate facial characteristics of my own kind o_O How sad... (sigh)...

Chillin' and rainbow loomin' =)

Things have definitely changed since I did my last international flight... it was so neat--got to see the view of the outside via various cameras attached to the exterior of the plane! That awed and entertained me for a good 4 1/2 min haha... the view doesn't change much =)

Thank goodness the 13 hour flight ended when it did cause I could tell that it was beginning to get to Sophia. Her circadian rhythm was beginning to get all whacked! After landing in Korea, turned out we had to go through another security check... standing in a long line at what felt like 3 in the morning (actually 5ish PM in local Korea time) was not pleasant. Glad to say her and I made it through without any tantrums =) I know Eli was a little nervous about that--2 tired girls on his hands... good luck, buddy! Ha!

That's it for now for the beginning our trip...

:: LOVE ::

COOKIE & MAMA