The guy at the front desk assigned to watching the local news and translating it for us non-Thai speakers had some strangely bleary news to share. He said that the army is going to go in within 24 hours - they've issued an ultimatum (though we've not heard this anywhere else). They will start removing people forcefully at that point. There is expected bloodshed, and the estimate is 1 week before the airport is open again, due to having to clean the *blood* that will be there.
It is my hope that there will be minimal bloodshed, but it doesn't sound likely from all we've been hearing. There are children and the elderly there, entire families.
I hope that nothing at the airport actually gets blown up. That would only make things worse. I also hope that they can find some other way to end this without anyone dying.
We spoke to a German tourist in the lobby today and she is leaving on a 30-hour bus ride to Kuala Lampur. She has a flight out of there after that. 30 hours is crazy, let's hope that the 1 week estimate is wrong. We are expecting to have to hang out in the airport for a solid day at some point. Ugh. Oh well. Let's hope we're wrong.
OK, so next post is going to be a bunch of random photos of why we actually came here.
Well, I am going to post a slew of pictures next to show why we actually came here.
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