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We got back home late last Wednesday from our trip to Sri Lanka.

I had every intention of blogging throughout our trip.  The first few days were relaxing at the health resort.  Then after the wedding, the following day, we packed everything up and heading on our tour.  It was a jam packed, fun filled 8 day excursion around the island of Sri Lanka.  We ended up having internet access at every hotel, but by the time we got to the hotel we were plum exhausted.  We only had a little energy to Skype the girls and then fall asleep.

We traveled with 13 other people.  Most of them were some of Joey’s best friends.  And a few were friends of friends we only met on the trip.  We all got along really well and had so much fun together.  I didn’t know how it would go traveling with other people.  I worry about people not getting along and everyone getting tired of each other.  But it was not like that at all.  I now think traveling with friends is a great idea.

Some of our new friends made a blog just for the trip.  So if you are interested in the details and seeing more pictures you can visit them over at LivingtheLankaLoca.wordpress.com

If you are friends with me on facebook then you can see me tagged in my fair share of unflattering sweaty/frizzy haired pictures from the trip.

But some of the highlights from the trip were:

• holding a baby sea turtle
• visiting an island where they made cinnamon
• tea plantations and factory
• the beach/ocean
• train ride in the mountains
• elephant orphanage
• safari
• waterfalls
• Buddhist temples
• so many monkeys
• snake charmer show and holding a python
• not getting sick once!  Joey did, but it was only one night.

I have to show some photos, but I realize seeing someone’s vacation photos can be a drag so I’ll keep it to a minimum.

Our traveling companions

Tea plantations all over the mountains.

Kandy

Our pink tour bus.

Buying a painting from a local artist.

Joey and I at the wedding.

Kandyan dancers and firewalkers.

The trip was so amazing.  The flights home, not so much.  And we are still suffering from jet lag.  But we would totally recommend Sri Lanka!

Sri Lanka

We arrived in Colombo, Sri Lanka yesterday early (5 am). After a crazy drive though the city we got to our hotel for the next 3 days. It’s a health retreat and everything is amazing- the view, the food, the room, pool. And so relaxing.

I’m doing this post on my iPad on paid by the hour wifi. So it’s a bit of a struggle for me to figure it all out. I’ll get it.
But for now, I’m going to go swimming.

Snowed In

We got walloped with some snow the last couple days.  Total of 14.5 inches or so.

Rory has only went to school one day this week.  Monday and Tuesday were scheduled days off, Thursday and Friday were snowed.  Joey hasn’t been able to go to work either.  They forgot to plow our roads yesterday.  While most are returning to work we are stuck at home again.  It was nice yesterday, but we started to get a little stir crazy towards the end of the day.  So today I don’t know how it’s going to go.

But we have been enjoying the sledding.  We have a big hill next to our house with prime sledding.  All these photos were taken the first half of the snowstorm, so it doesn’t show it all.

Joey’s doing something strange at the top of the hill.

With the neighbor kids making a snowman.

And a photo from last month’s snowstorm of Delilah and her cousin Ella.  One of the hills in the background.

This photo was taken towards the end of the storm out my window.  The car parked there was a family sledding.  They were there for like 3 hours.

This snowstorm and being stuck all day in the house has been kind of nice.  It has forced me to get ready for our big trip to Sri Lanka next weekend.  We will be gone 12 days.  The girls are going to stay here with the grandparents tag team watching them.  So I have been getting all that in order.

And hopefully I’ll be able to blog some while we are over there, so you can see what we are up to,