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!!
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