There were protesters in Pattaya (yellow shirts) the day before we arrived. There was an ASEAN summit that quit when the protesters messed things up. We went to Pattaya for an overnight instead of Bangkok and everything was fine. We saw lots of crew in Pattaya which was crowded due to today's New years celebrations and also the aircraft carrier USS Stennis and 4 escort ships were in port adding another 10,000 people to the area. The bars and girls were happy.
Jim
