Thailand and the journey to get there...

Tom and I are in Thailand and now and its really hot, not that I'm complaining because its a change from the 6 weeks of winter we had to endure in the vans.
The trip from Auckland was a bit of a pain. We had to checkout of the hostel at 9:30 and then wait for 12 hours to go to the airport where we would have to wait another 8 hours for our flight to Sydney. As you can imagine this is going to be a really long day. When we tried to check into the Auckland to Sydney flight we needed to go to the Qantas ticketing desk to get our ticket number. The lady who was going to serve us was some old woman who had way too much makeup on and moved at 2 speeds. The first was an impressive glacial speed and the other coma. As you can imagine i wasn't a happy bunny and got rather arsey. We managed to make our flight which was a relief as this meant that i wouldn't have to decapitate her in the middle of the airport (i can't imagine that would have gone down very well with the airport staff).
When we arrived in Sydney, which was good news, however there was an element of bad news that soon dampened our spirits. We had a 10 hour wait for our connecting flight to Thailand. We still had visa's for Australia so we left the airport for about an hour before going back into the departure lounge. At this point i thought i had swine flu. I'm not sure if it was it was because I'd been up for so long or because I wasn't in a happy place. Thankfully that passed about 4 hours later.
The flight went fine and we had a few drinks and even some shut eye, which was a great relief. We arrived in Bangkok and as soon as i got off the plan i broke out in the most hideous sweat. It must have been a really muggy 28 or so degrees. When got through customs fine and then managed to make it to the taxi rank and meet 2 guys called Ben and Chris to share the taxi with to Ko Sahn road which cost us about 2:50 each. They hadn't booked anywhere so they ended up staying in the same place as us for the first few days. We went out for a couple of beers in the evening and walked along the famous Ko Sahn road. It's a dirty road with lots of bars and street stalls selling anything you can imagine, from images of Buddha (very cool) to tazers (very very uncool). We had a few beers on the street which cost about 80p before going to a place called spicy disco which I think is a favourite haunt for the majority of Thailand's lady boys. It's really weird, they kind of stick together which means they are essentially pack hunters. A very scary thought as you can appreciate. We got a tuk tuk there and because we were all drunk and a little pumped up we paid the drive extra to do some wheelies and stuff on the way.
The next few days we spent wondering around the area looking in stalls and we even went to the Grand Palace but when we got there we found out you have to be totally covered up which then stopped us dead in our tracks. The four of us also meet a tuk tuk drive who very kindly offered would we like to go to a travel agent to see about booking our trip. Believe it or not the guy was from Wales and coached Tom in rugby when he was a nipper. That didn't stop him from trying to rip us off. So we disregarded everything he told us and went to the shopping mall called MBK to meet some other people. I've never seen a place filled with so much stolen phones and pirated software in my life. It's crazy, they even had a full copy of Windows 7 which isn't even out yet.
We've also been to a ping pong show most disgusting spectacle I've ever seen and I'll never go to anything like that in the rest of my life. That's all I'll say about that.
The plan now is to go down south to Koh Pangna which is an island of the east coast to go to a half moon party. Will be another update when the parting's over and done with.

P.S Can i please see some comments, I really miss them. Thanks