Sri Lanka part 2- animals!

If beach time wasn't our favorite pastime then looking for animals was! We saw little critters everywhere!-  from the bright red caterpiller "don't eat that mom!", to the monkeys on the roof. here is a sample:

Little mr. turtle is about the cutest thing ever.

On the way to Yala- not technically an animal... but that was the biggest buddha I had ever seen-(it's 3 stories tall!)

He's thinking- I haven't had bacon in a loooong time- c'mere pig

eagle eyes and binocular girl

and right as we were driving out who should appear?

On the way to snorkel- luca in a straightjacket- pretty sure he can breathe- just can't bend

okay- no animals but what a sweet little family

We were asked if we wanted to visit a snake farm-"sure, that sounds like fun"....

The place was run by a doctor who made antivenom- he would just go in a shed, bring out a snake, and plop it on the ground by your feet.

this was the angry cobra he caught 2 days prior- look at the clueless guy in the blue who isn't backing up

as soon as he brought out the nonpoisonous snakes he started to put them on our heads for "good pictures!" but I think he really did it to make himself crack up

okay I'm done -someone take this off me please...please!

mosquitos on the outside. (and proof brother and sister do actually get along)

Sri Lanka part 1 Tuk Tuks and beach time

For a fistfull of rupees this guy will drive you anywhere in his tuk tuk

Well we just got back from Sri Lanka and it was such an incredible trip we may have to take a few posts to tell you about it. So we will start with the tuk tuks. Picture a typical 2 lane road- now place a man walking on the side of it, add another on a bicycle with his wife riding on the crossbars, add a family on a moped, add a tuk tuk (3 seats in the back- one driver), now a small car, a delivery truck, a big-ass bus... and this will give you an idea of the roads in Sri Lanka- where a 2 lane road is really an 8 lane assault on the senses! Now I'm sure there are accidents and fatalities here as well but in the 100k from the airport to Unawatuna we just flowed along in a stream of horn blasts (all friendly- just to let you know I'm here toots). I don't know if it's the Buddhism or not but everyone gets where they need to go. Now the 100k did take 5.5 hours to drive- but it was the first day of vacation so we didn't mind- plus we were sleeping for most of it. Our payoff was Unawatuna- an incredible place- the beach, the beer, but mostly the people- we met the kindest people here- (a quick note from the cynical part of my brain: I know we were in a tourist town and they weren't going to be mean to us- that's bad business- but there really wasn't an ulterior motive- they are just very nice.)

So our first few days were spent on the beach, having a beer ( or banana juice), and enjoying turning our brains to "off" mode.

Next post: we had real monkeys at our house- a post on the animals of Sri lanka

you can smile all you want- I'm not sharing.

someones got to do it-

Luca, take a picture of you parents and try to make them look cool.

Hey guys are you playing cards? (animal house reference)

Fresh- just point and on the grill it goes.

can't look like this in doha

I'm a pretty big surfer- well not that pretty but I am big.

Wilder has found her calling- surfer girl