We are back-tanned, tired, and triumphant.
……..after spending the last eight days traipsing through the towering temples and bewitching beaches of southern-most India
The travel tales probably deserve another blog-but I am not sure whether I’ll be able to do justice to another one, still mulling it over…….
For now the highlights of the trip:
- Spending eight complete days as a family without the distraction of school, office, grocery, laundry and the never-ending logistics of managing house
- Travelling by aircraft, train, taxi, and ferry all in one trip-a bus trip got missed out (Thank God-the kids say)
- Viewing the Rama Sethu at Rameshwaram before it gets dredged out by the power of politics and commerce
- Watching the sun go down at the southernmost tip of
- Me and Elena having a full-scale Mom v/s Pre-teen kid raging row, with she calling me the most autocratic Mom in the world (I know-she’s probably right ) and I calling her …well some strong names-both of us refusing to talk to each other for fifteen whole minutes as Aurora and Dad coaxed us both out of out tempers. We did hug and make up but Phew! What next I wonder?
- Getting the scare of our lives, when the Grand Referee of our family was knocked down on menacing rocks, trying to record the unleashed fury of the waves; relieved beyond words as he managed to come out with only a minor bruise on his foot, while his camera, phone and iPod weren’t so lucky!
- Managing to find a non-digital camera (I wasn’t sure they still made them) and waiting for rolls to be developed
- Coming home exhausted and exhilarated - and finding it still the best place to be in!
