Homeward Bound

Yesterday we spent the day swimming and sitting on the beach speaking with other tourists. There were others that we didn't speak with because the situation didn't present itself. I am disappointed that I didn't speak with the "nice lady." Do you ever repeatedly see the same person while you are on holidays and give that person a pet name to describe them to your traveling partner? We do that quite a bit. The "nice lady" we saw three days in a row, however, she was never quite close enough to engage in conversation. She appeared to be by herself, I never saw her speak with anyone, and she was always smiling. At around 4:00 pm every afternoon the "tea lady" would come down to the beach with her stainless steel container of chai tea. I would always buy a cup each for Sue and I and we noticed the "nice lady" would happily buy a cup. After finishing her tea she would fill the empty paper cup with what was left in her water bottle and search out the beach dogs to give them a drink. Sue figures that the "nice lady" has all of her chakras in perfect harmony.....whatever that means. I think that she is just downright happy to be sitting on a beautiful beach enjoyed perfect weather and not freezing her ass off going to work.

We are currently sitting in the Indira Gandhi Airport in Delhi at a coffee shop in the arrivals section. They won't let us into departures as it is more than 5 hours until our scheduled departure.

This morning we had a cab drive us to Trivandrum to catch our flights to Mumbai and then onto Delhi. I don't think that I have mentioned the level of security in previous posts. The security at the airports here makes the security in North America look like the cub scouts are in charge. Every passenger is subjected to an entrance way scanner as well as being scanned with a hand unit and then frisked.

We just debated taking a picture of the truck at the end of the departure road that was fully outfitted with a wide selection of fire power...I ended up snapping one from far away through a pane of glass so as not to annoy them.

We have just over 6 hours until our plane leaves. Unfortunately, we have head wind going home so our return non stop flight turns into a 15.5 hour extravaganza.

This will be my last post from India. I do plan to make one more post after I get home to kind of wrap up this trip and write some final thoughts and observations.

I should have bought some sleeping pills from the Chemist.....