This morning we headed to the home of Angus, or Agnes as the Bishop called him about 20 times. How a Sri Lankan got a name like Angus I don't know but there is no Scottish blood in him.
Man is it hot and humid today. It rained early this morning and even though we're by the ocean the humidity is a killer. We finally found his house and got the official tour. It's a typical solid concrete building with 2 rooms, a front room where he had set up for the service and a kitchen and "bathroom". Angus has a couple palm trees and he had already cut down a cluster of them. He proceeded to cut us up a couple, popped some straws in them and were served fresh King coconut water.
After meeting with the group we headed back to Colombo. On the way we stopped for lunch at a great sea side restaurant. I noticed on the wall on the building as we were leaving a line about 9 feet up that marked how high the water was when the tsunami hit in 2006. They had some pictures of the restaurant after the waters receded.
It took us about 4 hours to get back to Colombo. I was pretty excited mostly because I didn't have to sit in the front seat the slowest van on the road…a wide open, smooth road and the driver wouldn't go faster than 60KM's!! It was painful. I was happy to go swimming at the pool, even though it started to rain soon after we got to the city. We met up with Tim (the accountants on an Asian tour) and Madu (who looks after the overall admin for Sri Lanka) for supper.
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