Welcome to India! Please Don't Strangulate the Indians

It's been a week filled with adventures, from dancing in the streets of Mysore to watching the simultaneous sunset and moonrise on a stone wall on the only hill, to visiting the only Sikh temple (Gurudwara) for Guru Nanak's birthday...then back to Bangalore where we spent the day at an orphanage where I helped the girls make bracelets and Fred took pictures of mass haircutting by volunteer beauticians...then last night we boarded a train for Hampi in North Karnataka, a shanti land of huge rock formations, temples, monkeys and crappy internet cafes. It's a relief to be out of the big city...and I don't need to tell you how much I LOVE monkeys!

Time and money constraints led us to a somewhat difficult decision against the Andaman Islands, so for now it remains my dream only. But we've had enough experiences in the last week to take up fifteen pages on the blahg (train encounters alone could fill a book! Like getting reprimanded by an Indian man on the train for crossing my legs..), and Fred has mass amounts of pictures that will get posted for you all sometime in the next month. For now I just want to let you all know that we are happy and healthy and loving every minute of this crazy life!

Wish you could be here to share in the blessed insanity,
all my love,
LMA