Home at last

Oh its so good to be back home. I have been away for 19 days. The first 7 days all i saw was the hospital and its canteen. I did go to the shopping centre but it was only for 1 1/2 hrs. Then, after that I had no transport so stuck again at the mercy of others...hahaha. It was only when we went to Sri lanka that we all enjoyed ourselves so much.

What a great country to visit. We saw many Tamils but no tigers. We had a lot of Sri Lanka food, its isnt the same as Indian food, but to the chinese taste buds all curries taste the same.

The hotels we spent our nites in were as good as those here, 5 stars, the service was very good and the toilets clean !....oh so important. The best part was the fellowship we had together. We started as strangers and ended up as friends with plans to visit each other. The world isnt that big after all.

The ladies in Sri Lanka were so friendly, the beauty of the inner wheel friendship sisterhood! They laid out goodies for us to eat, that its no wander they need 6 yards for their saris!. If we had stayed any longer we too would have to buy saris and wear as our clothes wouldnt fit.....food glorious food !

There are many places of interest to see but bacause of time constrains and our meeting schedules in Colombo and Kandy we only saw 1 of the 7 world heritage sites this time. We visited the Holy temple of the Tooth ( Sri Dalada Mallgawa )the most sacred shrine in Buddhism. It is here that the sacred tooth of Buddha is enshrined. Opened to public once in every 6 years. Of course we missed it by a year or so....hahaha. So we saw only the "casket", actually I would call it the pagoda which enshrined the sacred tooth. We were all looking for the casket as in "coffin' so, many of us didnt see as we were looking for what we thought as coffin !....haha.

All in all it was a great trip, the tip of the icing. More to come if we visit Sri lanka again.

Anyway I feel that this country, Island of prosperity, Sri meaning prosperity and lanka meaning island, deserves another visit. Now that i know how good the food is, I will get ready my 9 yrad sari so i dont have to worry about ill fitting clothes.