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A thousand words
There have been far too many exceptional moments during this trip to pick a favorite in any category. The Singhalese people were happy and smiling, liked Americans, respected grandmothers and helped Carmen and I in any way they could. They were eager to share their remarkable country and heritage and proud of the variety that is within this one full-of-wonders island. A picture says a thousand words so I will attach several to this ...
Under the Sea
... a tip for his services of the past few days, Siri is more concerned with his youngest childs future and implores us to keep in touch and to help him with his English, and if possible, sponsor him in the future. We are both speechless for a moment, not expecting such a lofty request, so suddenly. Is there anything we can do? I'm not sure how we can really help this young intelligent boy - however we will keep in touch with them and try to do what we can...
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An in-reef swimming pool!
... middle of a deep ocean atoll. I would never have expected to see such a rich diversity of marine life right along the coast of such a large island where river runoff usually destroys visibility.
I went into the pool with the kids and we spent most of our time with our heads under water. Mason told me that it was the best snorkeling we have done on this entire trip, and I had a hard time arguing with him. Along the rocks and coral that line the edge of this pool we found a ...
The Difference Between a "Trip" and a "Vacation"
... plan to make it a double trip and visit then Maldives, too!
The flight to the island was a straight shot - only 5 hours long - and left from Kuwait at 8pm. That put us into Sri Lanka at 5am which was brutal but no one was complaining once we got through customs and caught a glimpse of the neon "Duty Free" ...
A mixed day
... was, but could not find anything, they searched everywhere, poked into holes and cracks with sticks, but nothing, it would have been very unusual for it to have been a snake, and it would have been tiny, as what ever it was was in a little corner of the stairs, but whatever it was, rat,snake,lizard, giant millipede, it terrified me and i panicked and hid in the dining room downstairs trying really hard to calm down but having a pretty big panic attack. not fun. adem had to come ...
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