Christmas

On Christmas we got heaps of fireworks and crackers which we burnt on the beach at night.
Some of which didn't work properly and it freaked out mum because she thought they were going to suddenly blow up and kill someone.
The fuse on some of the rockets were less than 2cm long and you needed to be quick if you didn't want to get a face full of fire.
For Christmas Eve, we went to a buffet dinner with a terrible magician, horrible music and one enthusiastic Santa that would've scared the pants off you.
On boxing day we saw the Hobbit in 3D, it is pretty much just a remake of Lord of the rings with different characters and better special effects.



This is the beast that caused Seamus to
 cower under the table.
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Before Christmas we went up to the top of the lighthouse no the beach.
it was very high up and mum couldn't build up the courage to go up and she
was freaked out just looking at the photos. From the top we could see a temple
building on one side and the beach on the other.
the light shines through the window of the apartment every 10 seconds making
it very hard to get to sleep after a long day of walking and swimming.

A cute dog snags an appetizing snack on the beach.
Can't think of anything better!!

the beach

view from the lighthouse

stairs up the lighthouse

view form the lighthouse

We are still in Trivandrum staying in a house close to the beach. Mum and dad are doing yoga in the living room with a hippie who makes funny noises making it very hard for me to concentrate so they trapped me in the bedroom to do my blog.

We have been going to the beach lots and encounter some funny people. Dad and i where swimming a long way off shore and a man with long hair and a long beard came out and stood in between us. He stared at us looking all excited and started screaming then looked at us both smiling then screamed again then started jumping around then went back to shore yelling.
While we where swimming another man was asking for money from mum because he had blown off both his hands while he was trying to catch fish with a hand grenade!
Also there are hundreds of old ladies trying to sell fruit and they are hassling everyone to by their fruit.

Maggie is always asking if we got that from the beach ladies and if it is, he won't eat it.  

Willow @ Kerala

We have gone down to the lowest point in India and are renting a house on the beach for two weeks. There is a dog shelter nearby with dogs that don't have rabies and we volunteered to walk them sometimes.
 At the beach the water is clear and the waves break a long way off shore so you can catch them for a very long time. There are rock-pools, a hill with a light house and on the sand there was a washed-up jellyfish about half a metre wide.
 To get around we have been catching trains everywhere and some times they are over twelve hours long. One of them we caught from Udupi to Mangalore was over night but most are two or three hours  long.
We went to the picture theatres and saw life of pi and whenever anything happened on the screen everyone would clap and cheer or boo and hiss.it was more entertaining than the movie. After that we went to the zoo near by and it happened to be where the film we saw earlier was set. But it wasn't a very good zoo because all the animals where in tiny cages.

You never know what you could find on a little stall.