Finally some pictures.....

Oh my goodness!! Trying to get pictures uploaded has not only taken me most of the afternoon....and you will see the token 10 pictures loaded below....but now my camera (which is already giving me fits has decided to run out of batteries!!).

I am having to have active thoughts today about feeling lucky about travelling.- I KNOW I am lucky- and even when sitting on the other side of the world- life can be frustrating. Not surprisingly- some of the stress is caused by our stupid rental house- WHY did I ever think being a landlord was a good idea? Yuck!! And then the camera not working.....and then.....okay, life is short....I'm done complaining and lucky.  I will do another blog about what we have been up to- but want to make sure these pictures get up before the electricity (which goes out or is low most afternoons) decides to do one or the other.

Our first meal we ate on Thai Airways from Bangkok to Delhi, India.

Ang and I boarding the plane to New Delhi, India.

At one point we were in this store and I turned around to see a bindhi on Ang's head...she claimed it happened so fast she was shocked too! Soon..I was bindhi'ed as well.

With the boys from the field hockey team on the bus. We thought the man in the front was the coach- since he jumped in the photo- turned out he wasn't. Classic.

The sunrise over the Bay of Bengal, Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean- pictures don't do justice.

What my socks looked like when I got them back from laundry- they are at least 2 sizes larger than my foot. Apparently it is rude to turn your underwear into the laundry....but we found that out AFTER the poor woman had sorted through 2 weeks of dirty underwear.

Passage to India...duh.

The coast of Kerala. Kerala is one of many states in India. It is the only communist state, has a population that is 90-something percent literate and has the lowest infant mortality rate of all of India....interesting huh?

At our cooking class.....we had to be barefoot (which you all know makes my skin crawl)....and the potatoes and onions had been on the floor. Can you say "mice city?"

Ang and I at the cooking class with our finish product! If we had our druthers....there would be no-tomato-turned-flower or garnishes.....but the real-chef insisted.