Noi and I finished our paperwork yesterday and are now Husband and Wife...woohoo.  We will go to Suratthani this evening and start preparing for the formal ceremony and try to take in some side trips as well. It was a great feeling to be finished with the paperwork after all of the waiting in the U.S. embassy because we didn't know that they required appointments.  The embassy was nice enough to consider our situation an emergency, so they let us in, but I had to wait until after everyone else got their paperwork.

I promised pictures from yesterday, so here are a couple.

Above:  If you can't read these documents, don't worry...neither can I.  However, this is basically our Wedding license.  Below: A shot of Bangkok  at 80 km/hr on the freeway.  We had to go all the way across town to finalize the wedding paperwork and then back again to the lawyer/translator office to finish filling out paperwork for Noi's Visa.  Nothing like hopping into a car with "Drifting" on the steering wheel.  Yeah!  Woohoo.

I have to admit, that wasn't the way we thought our day was going to go, but it turned out just fine.  Then we got to take a little walk after we got back to the hotel...We went to a night market a mile or so from our hotel.  I found out that the rumors of Bangkok's red light district are true...hehe...Nothing like walking down the market isles only to have people trying to pull you into the "bikini bars" for "extra curricular activities" and "body part games" when you are walking along hand-in-hand with a woman you obviously are in love with.  Crazy Times.

Anyway, the nighttime traffic is also a feature of Bangkok that I won't forget; however, I have to admit other than the fact that scooters are weaving in and out of the cars, and the lanes mean absolutely nothing, and cab drivers are constantly fitting a 12 foot car into a 6 foot space, it's not so different from Seattle or any other big city in the U.S.  The picture below shows just a taste of Bangkok's' traffic.

It was good to also have a chance to see the head office for the company Noi works for here in Thailand.  At that point, however, my feet were hurting too bad to walk much more, so we took a cab back to the hotel.  I was pretty much out like a light as soon as my head hit the pillow, but I slept quite well until 3 or 4 am.  Nothing like getting up way before the sun.  I do think, however, that I got about 6 hours of good sleep, which is good for the 2nd night in country.  I'm on my way to getting over the jet lag...Woohoo.

Below is a picture of Bangkok Uniform Insurance head office in Bangkok.

Okay, that's it for this post.  I hope to get more pictures of Bangkok in the daytime today before we leave for the south.  I hope you are all safe and well.