Morning on the last day in Bangkok

Yesterday was a good day. I didn't blog last night because I was so tired. Our conference lasted all day. I presented twice and those went well. Then we had a group dinner (there are about 75 of us at this conference -- a conference that we host for all of our resellers in Asia Pacific). I would definitely lose weight here. I had white rice and moved just about everything else around on my plate. I also had a serious allergy attack to something in the air. It was bad. Now after a benedril and a night's sleep, I'm fine.

Today we have one on one meetings with the resellers, our awards dinner, and then I fly out to Berlin just before midnight.

I was talking with someone yesterday. Bangkok has 15 million people (7 times the number of people in the state of Utah). We talked about how the enjoyment of living here would be completely dependent on how much money you made. The disparity between the people is so stark. There are beautiful modern malls and hotels and then there are tiny dirty slums. There doesn't seem to be much in between. There are a lot of street vendors. They work seven days a week, 12 hours a day, for very little money. It is sad to see. That said, I admire them greatly. They aren't begging, they are working. I'm sure just to make enough to feed their families.

I saw an elephant in the road last night. Weird.

Here are three more pics (I haven't done a very good job at taking pictures to share).

The first is the hotel. It is very nice and very modern. The second is the Thai woman who works on the hotel at the guest lounge. She opens the elevator for you, says good morning, asks you if you need anything, etc. (man, I sound spoiled). She didn't smile in the picture, but they call Thailand the land of 1000 smiles. The people are always smiling. The third pic is the busy Bangkok street.

I need to go get ready. I love you all and miss you!!!!