Still not much time to post… and we need to have time to sit, time for Annie to write, and put to gather picture, before our next “real” post….  but here’s a note to say we’re still “kicking”

The last night at the Tiger Safari Lodge I got tired of having an upset stomach, so Annie had resort call a doctor.  He came to our room by about 10pm… along with his driver and assistant (they might have been his drinking buddies for all we know)… checked me out, and gave me a prescription for medication which arrived half an hour later.

The next morning when we checked out of the resort I had to pay the bill… 2000 Rubees (1000 for him and 1000 for the medicines)…  that came to about $32 for a housecall.

We had a 3-hr drive in Rajasthan this morning… it took about 4-1/2 hr because we kept stopping so I could make balloons for kids along the way (I should learn something from this?) We’d get to a scene in the countryside with grass huts and some woman bathing her two kids in the well…. the driver would pull over for Annie to take a picture and for me to make the two kids balloons… before we’d leave a dozen kids would appear out of nowhere. More balloons….. We saw some cute small school and he said, “let’s stop for a photo”…. of course this meant a few more balloons. soon we realized there were over a hundred kids gathering. I went thru about 350 balloons by the end of the day (50 pounds for 6 months goes pretty quickly).  

The next time we stop while driving someplace, I’ll look a mile in each direction before taking out a balloon.
One nice surprise tonight was a puppet show at our hotel in Rajasthan. After the show we spoke with the puppeteers. They’ve been doing it for generations and have a puppet colony nearby where everyone makes or works puppets. We made a date to visit them on Sunday.