Just another week went by and one more week closer to March/October. You might want to know "Why March?", well that is when we go to the Maldives!! It was something we, especially Teresa wanted to do since we found out the first time that we will be in India for a year. We finally decided to go after it has been on and of the list of things to do. We will be going to Kandooma Island, it is a small island south of the Male Island where the airport is located. From the airport we take a 45 minute speedboat ride to the island where the resort is located. These islands are so small that there is only space for one resort per island. Our dates are 24 - 27 March, so stay tuned after that for lots of pictures and interesting stories.
Everyone would be pleased to know that our plumbing problem has finally been finished, well not without some "motivation" from my side. I finally lost patience with the maintenance office after two and half weeks of messing around.
We are starting to think that the foreign products available in some stores are rejects from those specific countries. We cannot think of another reason for the products to be in such bad shape. Canned products are rusted and dented and most of them are always very close to their sell by dates. I don't even talk about how dirty all of it is. It is amazing the condition of products you do get over here.
Oh yes, Saturday evening we had our first domestic disturbance problem, well not us but one of the apartments under us. It was around midnight when it happened, I was sitting in bed with my laptop and headphones in listening to music, surfing the World Wide Web and Teresa was sleeping when we heard this murderess shouting. It was so bad that about 20 or so people come out of their apartments trying to see where the shouting came from. Finally the security people came looking and calmed the people down.
We finally got to buy some meat, we went to the Novotel on Saturday for a foot massage and treatment and ordered some chicken and lamb while we were there from them. It is nice to know what you can buy at a place like a hotel. We also got some spinach and a cucumber, we did order some lettuce and beef but they did not have in stock. We are looking forward in having some meat again.
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| Some local traffic over here. This was a large group of Waterbuffalo we got on the way back from the hotel. |
