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Hey, Christine- I thought you might like this. I came across it at Bagrham AFB Afghanistan.

More India

Can't talk long I have to get the kids ready for school but the top picture was of one of the girls I wanted to bring home to do a study abroad program or something, nicest girl in the world. She is the tallest one next to the girl in the dress her name was Diya. The second one is of the local school kids singing their local songs for us. The third is of our proud build the best wall in the whole village made with American precision and quality will out last all other walls. Of course in the picture it is just getting started but we finished it in the end.

India Rocks

Tara is going to kill me for posting these pictures from India but she took so long to do it. The picture on top is the first time we really started bonding with some of the people there. I was walking back to the bus after a long hot day of work but I felt great because the habitat people brought a huge supply of real mango juice in these juice boxes for us at the work site. I must have drank half of them while the rest of the team of eight got the rest "very greedy". In the village there is a main street and on the side of it I saw five little girls playing a game involving four posts. I decided to be a little spontaneous and see if they would let me play too. Two of them ran into the house scared and the other three stayed and let me in on it. I was in the mush pot I think it would be called and I had to tag anyone who was not touching a post or get to an empty post then the odd person out was it. Pretty soon we had a line of kids wanting to play with the six three white foreign guy. Some of the younger more adventerous westerners joined in too after awhile. I think I was a hit after that because after that the kids would come up and say game? game? . I introduced fag tag but considering there were a couple of gay people in our group I renamed it buddy tag to be a little more considerate of peoples feelings than usual. They enjoyed buddy tag even more and so did the westerners.
The second picture is of me and Tara on the back of the burning hot bus after a scorching hot day of bricklaying. There are other pictures of us but this one was my favorite just because Tara got frustrated with me not looking just perfect after a day like that. I was just teasing her a bit. The third picture was on our second morning at the wilderness resort they had us at. After breakfast we had about 30 minutes to take a walk. We went down to this river and found some really awesome specimens of Quartz that we managed to smuggle back successfully. This particular resort had alot of interesting flora and fauna; iguanas, toads, eagle size fruit bats, rhinocerous beetles, poison dart frogs, enormous moths the size of my hand, geckos, cameleons, and a mango tree with a banyan tree attached and a certain kind of nut producing tree growing up above out of a crevice in the tree. I am going to post some more pictures of India even though Tara may get angry with me.

We are back

India was amazing. We have a tentative plan to return in two years. Next time we are taking the kids. We will post pictures shortly. I know no one reads this stupid blog but I just want to say to everyone that they need to consider India as a prime vacation spot. One location in particular is Goa. Goa kicks Hawaiis butt.