Fun with Bubbles!
More Bubbles!
Jumping Rope.
So Cute!
Jump, Stephanie!
They liked the Bubbles!
More Bubbles
So serious... we hadn't learned how to ask them to smile yet.
She was such a cute baby, but wasn't about to let me hold her.
Watching others jump rope
Salima is trying to coax others to jump.
Liz playing Duck-Duck-Goose
Run Fast Liz!
Ashley Just got tagged!
These kids run fast!
Cute Stephanie! Choosing who to pick for Goose!
So Fast!
Run Stephanie!
Liz plays some more!
Run Ashley!
So Precious!
These kids were standing back by the door, unsure about coming and playing with us.
Such a beautiful smile! :)
Look at the flowers in her hair!
Getting ready to teach them a song.
She turned away just as I snapped the picture, but look at the beautiful smile to the left!
Once again, the girl in pink on the left steals the camera.
Finally got a picture of her.
Is the sucker good?
So Serious!
The steps leading upstairs to the church. The kids are watching us leave.
The view off of our Guest House Balcony.
Facing East... off of the balcony.
skyline as seen from the Balcony.
The Balcony overlooked a road where I took some of the following pictures.
This is the type of truck they used to transport things... and people.
It was carrying building supplies and workers... pulling a cement mixer.
They were buling a building just across from our Guest House.
Auto-rickshaw
trucks would bring in loads of sand and rock and dump them on the edge of the site. Then they would use baskets and carry the sand or rock on top of their heads.
This bike isn't loaded very heavy... only two people.
Lots of motorcycles.
Bus that stopped down at the corner.
Building across the street. It wasn't uncommon to see a building where the first couple floors were finished, then the upper floors were open like this.
bicycle rickshaw... they can carry just about anything.
Sari fabric hung out to dry.
The ladies rode side-saddle on the backs of motorcycles and bicycles.
Group of guys standing around talking.
Carrying tanks on the bicycle rickshaw.
unloading a truck over at the construction site.
Water Buffalo (I think) meandering down the road.
It's not at all uncommon to see people riding around on the back on trucks.
a whole herd of water buffalo.
Dogs are not pets. They just run wild.
Woman carrying water on her shoulder.
Two guys sharing a load.
Kinda blurry, but you can still see the load of tanks.
These kids saw me up on the balcony and were waving at me... they smiled for the camera.
Two boys playing a game on the roof next door.
Three girls playing on the roof across the street.
Two girls at HCDC... the night of the thunderstorm.
Cameras make a good ice-breaker!
Everyone wanted in the picture!
So pretty!
"Once upon a time, there was a man named Noah!"
"And then he said, 'Elephants! Come on Board!'"
"Come on Elephants"
"Kangaroos! Get on the Boat!"
"And there were two kinds of every animal on the boat!"
We stopped at the beach one day when we were close by.
Cara doesn't want her skirt to get wet.
Anna, Ashley, Michelle, Cara, and Salima enjoy the water on their feet.
"Ready? 1... 2... 3... JUMP!" Anna, Michelle, Susan (Me), Ashley, Salima, Stephanie, Cara, Liz.
Anna enjoys the water.
Miles and Miles of beach!
Boats on the beach... well above the water.
foam patterns on the sand.
Wave!
The boats looked like they were made of driftwood!
Trees at the beach.
Soaking in the breeze!
Many of the following pictures were taken from the van. This is a village that we drove through.
See the pump on the right edge of the picture?
Tree farm... there were quite a few of them around.
Driving past a village.
More village
Driving across a river.
Village
Trash dump.
This bull was just standing in the middle of the entrance to a shopping area.
Everyone just walked around him.
Empty field kinda used as a dump.
We drove through a hilly area on our way to one of the villages... apparently the driver thought we were crazy... nobody ever drove through there for no reason.
They had been doing some mining in the hills.
Tall and Skinny trees.
Driving through a village.
Fence made of branches.
Pink Goat!
It wasn't uncommon to have to wait for the goats (or other animals) to move off the road.
At one of the Church Children's Homes. Cara, Stephanie, and Anna blow up balloons to make fun shapes.
Doug Jumps rope!
Cara handing out something... I don't know whether it was balloons or stickers.
Salima jumping with the girls.
Liz turning for the girls
Stephanie Makes a balloon animal.
Johnson Explains to the girls how to jump rope. Michelle and Liz are turning.
He definately claimed that bottle of bubbles as his own.
Salima says, "Jump! Jump! Jump!"
Blowing Bubbles.
"See my sword!?"
Long Sword!
Michelle got to hold the precious baby!
Which song were we teaching them here?
Liz with the girls who live with the Pastor's family.
She has such a pretty smile! :)
Doug saying goodbye... Johnson translates.
Leaving the CCH, the kids never want us to go.
Chitti Babu clears the way at the bottom so Stephanie and Anna can go to the van.
Some boys watching us go.
"Bye! Bye!"
Many of the villages we went to are much harder (if not impossible) to get to during the rainy season. Here is one place were the water probably will flow over the road.
Herd of goats rest in the shade.
They had finished picking tobacco when we went through... here is an empty tobacco field.
In the Shade and near the Water
In a mango grove! Cara, Liz, Michelle.
Johnson (He interpreted for us a couple days) looks at a Mango.
Mango!
Making "bed" frames.
Mother told me that some of these look like I could have taken them in Barber County.
The spectator committee as we first arrive in a village.
Michelle shows off her flowers. They were given to us by the pastor of the church.
Cara, being dramatic! :)
My Flowers!
I got to hold an Indian Baby!!! Finally!!!
Aww... do I have to give it back?
Stephanie and a little boy. Thums Up!
Empty field.
They have the ability to load things well... but it makes it difficult to get around the wide loads.
Oh LOOK! It's a tractor! Too bad it's not green!
Beach Day!
The waves come rolling in!
Ashley in the edge of the water... How are you homesick for Kansas when playing in the waves?
Foam plays along the sand.
Random fact... the water in the Bay of Bengal is salty.
Random fact: I've never been able to float.
Random Fact: I floated in the Bay of Bengal!
Salima enjoys the waves.
Michelle wades out a little farther.
Pastor James' Daughter
It was nice to be called "Auntie Susan" again!
My name in the Sand of India!
She shows me how to write her sister's name.
Cara and Ashley introduce their pet!
"Oh No! He got away!" Cara and Anna look for him.
Ashley caught him! Don't show Liz!
"Isn't he cute?"
More pictures taken from the van. Do you see the barber shops on the right side of the picture?
driving through a village
"railroad crossing watch out for the cars. can you say that without any r's?"
Water Buffalo... after we honked at them.
village road.
small village home.
Their fences are interesting.
SCH - Anna hands out stickers.
Salima getting ready to pull something out of her bag.
Not that different from American kids... the sticker still goes in the middle of the forehead. :)
Smile Ashley :)
Salima started spinning the boys around!
Up in her arms, then around and around.
Spin!
He wants to spin too, Salima!
Bye Sonny!
Cute kids from the village.
The church
Haystacks... you should see them carry them on trailers.
through a village.
Same tracks we saw earlier, but without the train.
So the cement walls are the walls of the drainage ditch which ends just to the right of the edge of the photo... all the waste drains into that puddle... that's their sewer system.
Another tractor! (there were lots of tractors)... Is this one a Ford? Still not green.
They would have statues of important historic and political figures up all over the place... they also had statues of their gods up all over the place.
The More store... India's version of the supermarket.
They had billboards advertising movies and TV shows up all over the place.
And there were ads pasted all over the walls along the road too.
Little boy and girl playing in the water from the pump right outside the office building.
The pumps were just out for everyone to use. It seemed to be the woman's job to go get water.
Divided highway.
So I'd been trying to get pictures of the combines the entire trip... Notice the "cab" and "engine compartment" is actually a tractor (I think it's a 5310) and it's finally green!You can also see the feeder housing.
Here you can see the yellow bin and auger. The header is also there, on a trailer thingy behind.
Another shot of the combine... these were snapped as we sat at a toll booth.
Here is a shot of the other side. You can see the elevators and tool box.
There were these pretty flowering plants in the median of the toll road.
And this is how they transprot animals... put them in the back of a big truck and tie them in.
Another interesting load. And yes, almost all the trucks had some veriation of "Please Sound Horn" painted on the back.
A picture overlooking India from just before going into St. Thomas Mount.
