Oy… All three of us are walking around pretty spacy. I’m need to get to bed very soon. I did have a productive day back. I managed to push through the 1052 email messages I’d received since a week ago Sat. and caught up with the work things that had happened while I was gone. I also managed to work through the backlog of emails that people had sent us about SamStones they’d placed or found . The ‘Where are Samstones‘ map is now up to date. I also went through and did some maintaince on Sam’s Myspace.. To this day I d not read his private mail.. but I do occaisonaly have to remove the Spam that sometimes builds up on his comment list.. As I was doign that I was so moved by the comments that his friends keep posting to his site. If you’ve never read them… it’s worth a look.
I think all I’m going to do tonight in the blog is post some links to videos I took on the India trip. I didn’ thave enough bandwidth to upload them.. so I’ll do it now..
Here are a few videos about driving. the first is a time lapse that we took with Gabe’s camera. We’re driving up into the mountains towards Munnar. What you can’t see in the movie is the sheer cliffs that are right off to our right .. eeek !
The next is a video of some crazy passing that we had to do on these narrow mountain roads.. close your eyes !
Here are some monkeys we foudn by the side of the road on our first day. That was a big deal for us then.. we didn’t know that we’d be seeing monkeys everywhere we went.
.. and speaking of Monkey’s.. This little guy was in a zoo we stopped at.. I guess no one cared that the bars weren’t enough to keep him in
Cows were the most common animals we saw… They are everywhere and they are protected by law.. they can wonder into streets, homes, etc. We saw these guys .. or actually .. these guys chased us off .. in Cochin
Some of the Cows and Oxes are pressed into service as wanering minstrals..Wehre theire lead into your yard wiht loud music and you have to pay before they’re led away.. I’s sort of like a marriachi arraingement.
We also saw many elephants. These guys were at a rescue/training hospital
This movie is of a a bunch of musicians practicing for the Hindu Pooja festival. The video doesn’t do justice to the powerful effect ofbeing in the same room as this music. It was awesome !
Here’s a quick video of Gabe driving the speed boat in the resevoir. He’s good at it !
This last one is of our friend Chandu trying to juggle 3 coconuts.. Pretty impressive !
Well. that’s all I have for tonight.. Rmemebr the Halloween party is Sat, 7PM at our house.. Please come in costume if possiblr. We’d love to see you there.
OK.. gnite all, gnite Sam
-me