Trichur

Tuesday December 29^th –

We are now in Trichur where my grandparents have a house.  We are staying with them.  Tuesday, there was a bundh, a bundh is when everything is closed, even taxis and other forms of transportation. If you ignore the closure then people throw stones at you. Because my grandparents have no car, we walked everywhere today. The first thing we did today was walk down to my dad’s uncle’s house. When my dad went to school in India he lived there, and we also visited one of my dad’s old friends next door. That evening we went to one of my dad’s aunt’s house’s and ate a little bit, it was an okay day but I find myself hoping that this isn't all we do in Thrissur.

Wednesday December 30^th – Guruvayur Temple and Punnattur Kotta (elephants) and then Athilerapilli and Vazhachar

Today, we went to the Guruvayur Krishna temple, but I feel kind of like with temples, seen one seen all. After seeing the temple, we went to Punnatturkotta, which means place of elephants. There is supposedly 66 elephants in all. Of all the elephants we saw, only three were female, our favorite elephants were the ones with dark skin, they looked almost black. After we left Punnatturkotta we drove to some water falls, where there was a short hike to the bottom. It was really hot! When we got to the bottom, Brogan went crazy and was pretending to be Tarzan, as I write this he is slaping himself. The world’s oddest question, how many crazy siblings can one have and still be sane?