Merry Christmas

We still have a lot of catching up to do on this blog. Let me say again that uploading the pictures takes forever when your upload speed is over dial up and when you have the added bonus of frequent power outages. But for now, here are some photos of our Christmas in Varkala, along the southwest coast of Kerala, India.



Dean poses in front of our basic bamboo hut. He is holding the Christmas tree that I made out of tinsel over crumpled paper. We also decorated the outside with paper stars and more tinsel. We will most likely enjoy a nice dinner for Christmas, exchange some small gifts, phone home, and perhaps find a party (although they want an outrageous $25 admission to some...)









Here is the red cliffed beach where we can play frisbee to our hearts delight and get pummeled in the strong waves (lifeguard is present though). We also can take a walk about 20 minutes north and claim any beach all to ourselves, aside from a few fishermen. The waves there are mild but still good for body surfing and we once saw dolphins jumping about 100 meters from shore.







If you want to see where we are, go to the map. From here, we move south to Trivandrum, then northeast to Madurai, then further northeast to Pondicherry and end in Mamallapuram (not on map), which is very close to Madras (where we fly on to Thailand).