The Last of the India photos and on to Sri Lanka!!

Update for the blog. 

The group took an over night train ride down to Bangalore after Rajahmundry Convention and Tomo stayed at one of the friends house for 2 nights with Peter. Then another 5 hour train ride to Coimbatore, India. First night was in hotel but from the second day, Tomo moved out to grounds. 

Right after the Sunday afternoon meeting, 6 visitor workers, Helen Windsor, a Australian worker that's going back to Australia after Colombo convention and her sister and brother-in-law, that are escorting her home and Prabhakar, the overseer of North India and I were transported to Coimbatore Airport. Which was 7 minutes away by car.  We all flew to Chennai and stayed in a hotel for the night. We flew out of Chennai Monday morning and arrived at Colombo on time and 2 workers Gary(AUS) and Benny(S.African) picked us up and took us to the grounds. Sri Lanka is a lot cleaner than India, speaking from what I saw in the 1 hour drive to the grounds from the airport. Grounds look like a miniature American convention grounds. 

Here are some photos from along the way.

Pictures of Bangalore silk shopping. (for my MOM!!)

Vinay took Peter & I to town for shopping.
These guys were kind to go with me into the land of fabric. 
I was not real comfortable there, auto store....different story! ; )

Hotel in Coimbatore, India

Came to the grounds for dinner. Another wedding hall and this time it's full of

mosquitos.... No air conditioning what so ever and it's right around 30 ℃ or so.

All the creatures that joined me for a bath at Coinbatore. 

"Kame mushi" (Stink Bug)

Gecko

Frog

Last convention in India... Highlight of this convention would be giving Vivek a haircut. Made quite a show out of it for some people Hope it won't look weird in the morning.

Giving my buddy Vivek a haircut at Coimbatore. 

Hoping the battery charge holds out to the end of the cut!!

My bed at Coimbatore in the mens quarters.
This plus a mosquito net hanging.
The dark blue with orange stripes. 

Colombo Convention meeting tent. 

Arrive into Colombo this morning from Chennai. The conv grounds are lot like

the US conv grounds. Very nice weather at the moment. I'm liking it already!!