Hello again!
Chelsea and I arrived in Kerela on March 9th it was a bit of a milk run journey which involved sleeping on the marble floor of Mumbais Airport! But we arrived in one piece! When we left the plane we were hit with humidity it was insane, you could practically swim to the taxi! We found a cheap hotel and then puttered around Fort Cochin it was a very cute town with coconuts and palm trees galore! We washed and rode on elephants, which was very exciting! And went on a backwaters tour through the tropical rainforest it was BEAUTIFUL! we were surrounded by pineapples and bananas and cocoa beans and even a cashew tree! From Cochin we took a taxi up to the hill station of Munnar which is absolutely stunning it's hill after hill of tea plantations. It's lovely and chrisp and fresh and you can watch woman on the hillside collect bundles of delicious tea! We drove to waterfalls and lakes and went on a lovely row boat ride though sadly we didn't get that far! Today we are taking a 14 hr bus ride to Bangalore and then from Bangalore to Mysore so that should be lovely! We are sadly still on the hunt for a tiger and seeing as there are only 1411 left in the wild in India the chances are rather slim, but the search continues!
Have a wonderful day!
See you rather soon I believe in around 115 days, so that should just fly by!
xoxo
Simone and Chelsea
Thanks for keeping us in touch! It's spring break here, and 40 people from the church went out to Hope Bay Bible Camp on Pender for the annual trip to fix up the place. Jarret built new steps for each of the doors to the dining hall. Eric, Norm and I worked with Harrison, Seth and Cam digging trenches and installing drain tile for the old cabins in the muddy field. My tiny dog accompanied Jarret's and Eric's big dogs! We had great weather for most of the weekend!
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