A Few of My Favorite Things...

So I only have a few days left here and then it’s back to single digit wind chills…maybe now is the time to learn Celsius and it won’t seem so cold. Even though I promised myself I wouldn’t, a great deal of my souvenir shopping has waited until the last moment.
I have a number of topics, places and items that I’m going to add to the blog under the heading: A Few Of My Favorite Things… I can’t really get into an entire blog entry about each, but they deserve a mention at the very least.

Here is the Hoy-Hoy Trap A Roach. It’s sort of like a roach mansion instead of a roach motel. It has to be big, since these aren’t your garden variety roaches. The size of a silver dollar, they are (fortunately) completely pedestrian and not airborne.

Using paper products here always reminded me of my delightful and lovely former mother-in-law, everyone calls her Sue, but her real name is Flora. She’s a absolute sweetie and her namesake company has the entire market of napkins, paper towels, kleenex,cotton swabs and toilet paper here in Sri Lanka.

In this country, the swastika is merely a religious symbol. The first few times you see it, it’s a bit jarring. You quickly get used to seeing it all over the place.

This is the fish market in Pettah. Also known as “heaven” to the local cat population. If only this computer could do smell-o-blog… Can you spot the kitty?

This is the Buddha statue at the Molpe temple. When I first went there, I asked why the Buddha was being held hostage since its face was all covered up with a huge fabric hood. Apparently, mortals are not allowed to look upon the Buddha while repairs are being made to the statue….

This is one of my favorite pictures. Kyle and I were visiting a Hindu temple in Fort when I spotted this guy tanning a hide. No, I don’t know what it was in a previous life, but having its hide staked out on the grounds of a Hindu temple can’t be all bad for the karma thing.

Maxine took this picture of me and Roy parked near Galle Face Green. (It’s really a misnomer, it should be Galle Face Brown since it’s so well trafficked) Since I was absent the day they taught mime in theatre school, I’m on the phone with Lino to get her to tell Roy where we want to go next…

You don’t really want to get too close to the snake charmers in Sigirya.

Another favorite, Lisa took this picture of Dani and I at the mondo temple in Kandy. We were trying to think of ways to represent the scale of this huge statue in our photographs. When taking one looking up Buddha’s nose didn’t work, we decided we needed humans in the picture.

While we were in Kandy for the Perahera, we were all amused by these signs. I’m sure Chris and Dani aren’t the first tourists to pose with one of them.

Stay tuned for son of favorite things...