ahem here is Day 1
I mentioned that in day 1, we pretty much crashed into bed after our long day of activities. Well we where suppose to be heading over to my uncles house just north of Bangkok in the morning. My girlfriend wanted to leave early so she set the alarm for 3 AM. We crashed into bed around 11 PM. So 5 hours sleep is not to bad. Anyways, we go to sleep to be rudely awakened by the alarm clock at 1 AM. I didn?t look at time the first time I hit snooze. Well alarm went off again and I looked at clock, just past 1 am. Arrgghhh!! Wtf!? The alarm was 2 hours early and I felt like crap from only 2 hours sleep. So we set it for 4 am this time and head back to sleep. Buzz buzz buzz! DOH! Not again, stupid alarm now goes off at 3 am. Go figure, well we are kind of awake now so we decide to just get up and go shower and change.
After we get ready we have my cousin take us to the bus station. Since we could not find a taxi running at 4 am in the morning. We catch the bus to near my uncles house and take a taxi to get there. We arrive about 5:30 am and ring the doorbell. Fortunately my aunt is awake getting ready for work. We go inside and crash again for some more sleep. Wake up about 8 am and go bother my other cousin there. I meet some of his friends and his girlfriend. She will take the three of us to the consular office in Bangkok and she will head of to her office. So we leave around 9 or so and get dropped off. My cousin will stick around with us while to help out if needed. Well we go inside the consular office and head to the 3rd floor. Turns out I need a copy of my passport so I run downstairs and make a copy. Go back upstairs and show them it. Now I can draw a number for which we wait about 10 minutes for our number to be called. Before I got called I off course had some more paper work to fill out.
My numbered is called and I head to the window with my cousin, while my girlfriend stays seated. My cousin who is fluent in Thai and English speaks with them
Apparently it takes two business days to paper work processed. The problem is that the office will close the day after that day for the long holiday. So my cousin explains to them I am leaving on the first. They ask to see my plane ticket with I happen to have on me thank god. So they have me go make a copy of my plane ticket to give to them. I return with the copy and they said it would take a good 2 hours to complete. Cool I think so now we need to kill 2 hours. So we head outside and catch a taxi to a nearby mall for some shopping. Well apparently this mall was once a big time shopping place is now nothing more then a few stores left. This was off course to my cousin?s surprise to what ahs happen to this mall. But then again last time he was there was 6 years ago before he went to the US. So anyways we leave that mall and kind of walk down the street and decide to catch a bus to anywhere. Hell we did not know where it went or where we wanted to get off. But we got on and head down the street a bit and ended up getting off at a lotus super center. This place is like a super Wal-Mart. So that is where my girlfriend and I do some shopping. We ended up spending a little less then $50 bucks. Pretty good considering we had got each 2 shirts, pants, underwear and belt for me, and a bra and panties for her, plus a 6 pack of energizer batteries.
Well with shopping now completed and the 2 hour time limit is now almost over we catch yet another taxi outside the lotus center and head back to the consular office. We head to the third floor and low and behold our documents are done! YEAH! So we now have on last stop left to go, the Lumphar?s office for the marriage license.
We get there and talk to lady who informs us we need to get one more witness for the signing of the marriage license. DOH! I didn?t think about that, so we get my cousin?s girlfriend to show up and proceed with the paper work. I present my affidavit, the translated version, and the ok from the consular office, and off course more fees. It seemed like I had to do all the paper work. Well after about 2 hours off filling out papers for the both of us, and answering questions we finally receive our marriage license! Yeah!!
Does happy dance
We are finally pronounced man and wife. We later go out that night together to celebrate, which is part of the reason why we went shopping for clothing. And off course we stayed the night in the hotel to celebrate
Needless to say I did not sleep much that night, but what sleep we did get was great.
through out all this I manage to take
7 taxis
4 buses
1 electric train
3 motor cycle trips
and down a couple of alcohalic beverages when it was all said and done with.
Damn I miss my wife. It will be 6+ months before I get to see her again. INS process is slow.
I mentioned that in day 1, we pretty much crashed into bed after our long day of activities. Well we where suppose to be heading over to my uncles house just north of Bangkok in the morning. My girlfriend wanted to leave early so she set the alarm for 3 AM. We crashed into bed around 11 PM. So 5 hours sleep is not to bad. Anyways, we go to sleep to be rudely awakened by the alarm clock at 1 AM. I didn?t look at time the first time I hit snooze. Well alarm went off again and I looked at clock, just past 1 am. Arrgghhh!! Wtf!? The alarm was 2 hours early and I felt like crap from only 2 hours sleep. So we set it for 4 am this time and head back to sleep. Buzz buzz buzz! DOH! Not again, stupid alarm now goes off at 3 am. Go figure, well we are kind of awake now so we decide to just get up and go shower and change.
After we get ready we have my cousin take us to the bus station. Since we could not find a taxi running at 4 am in the morning. We catch the bus to near my uncles house and take a taxi to get there. We arrive about 5:30 am and ring the doorbell. Fortunately my aunt is awake getting ready for work. We go inside and crash again for some more sleep. Wake up about 8 am and go bother my other cousin there. I meet some of his friends and his girlfriend. She will take the three of us to the consular office in Bangkok and she will head of to her office. So we leave around 9 or so and get dropped off. My cousin will stick around with us while to help out if needed. Well we go inside the consular office and head to the 3rd floor. Turns out I need a copy of my passport so I run downstairs and make a copy. Go back upstairs and show them it. Now I can draw a number for which we wait about 10 minutes for our number to be called. Before I got called I off course had some more paper work to fill out.
My numbered is called and I head to the window with my cousin, while my girlfriend stays seated. My cousin who is fluent in Thai and English speaks with them
Apparently it takes two business days to paper work processed. The problem is that the office will close the day after that day for the long holiday. So my cousin explains to them I am leaving on the first. They ask to see my plane ticket with I happen to have on me thank god. So they have me go make a copy of my plane ticket to give to them. I return with the copy and they said it would take a good 2 hours to complete. Cool I think so now we need to kill 2 hours. So we head outside and catch a taxi to a nearby mall for some shopping. Well apparently this mall was once a big time shopping place is now nothing more then a few stores left. This was off course to my cousin?s surprise to what ahs happen to this mall. But then again last time he was there was 6 years ago before he went to the US. So anyways we leave that mall and kind of walk down the street and decide to catch a bus to anywhere. Hell we did not know where it went or where we wanted to get off. But we got on and head down the street a bit and ended up getting off at a lotus super center. This place is like a super Wal-Mart. So that is where my girlfriend and I do some shopping. We ended up spending a little less then $50 bucks. Pretty good considering we had got each 2 shirts, pants, underwear and belt for me, and a bra and panties for her, plus a 6 pack of energizer batteries.
Well with shopping now completed and the 2 hour time limit is now almost over we catch yet another taxi outside the lotus center and head back to the consular office. We head to the third floor and low and behold our documents are done! YEAH! So we now have on last stop left to go, the Lumphar?s office for the marriage license.
We get there and talk to lady who informs us we need to get one more witness for the signing of the marriage license. DOH! I didn?t think about that, so we get my cousin?s girlfriend to show up and proceed with the paper work. I present my affidavit, the translated version, and the ok from the consular office, and off course more fees. It seemed like I had to do all the paper work. Well after about 2 hours off filling out papers for the both of us, and answering questions we finally receive our marriage license! Yeah!!
Does happy dance
We are finally pronounced man and wife. We later go out that night together to celebrate, which is part of the reason why we went shopping for clothing. And off course we stayed the night in the hotel to celebrate
Needless to say I did not sleep much that night, but what sleep we did get was great.
through out all this I manage to take
7 taxis
4 buses
1 electric train
3 motor cycle trips
and down a couple of alcohalic beverages when it was all said and done with.
Damn I miss my wife. It will be 6+ months before I get to see her again. INS process is slow.
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