Mangalore

Got up early today to head to the airport - GoodBye Bangalore - Mangalore is an hour flight away but in many ways a world away from Bangalore - much more of an emerging city they recently got their first large mall - but this newness is intermingled with clay streets, frequent loss of power and overwhelming heat and humidity. We are staying at a beach hotel called Summer Sands - people from all over the world are vacationing there - so that is fun, and the beach is beautiful, went in the arabian sea today - but then were besieged by beach rats...the two legged 12 year old variety - we were so stared at we hightailed it back to the resort part, benind the fence and hit the pool... the two gals we met from England had had the same experience! We met Susies friends Mamta and Kishore - who drove us all over and took us to the zoo and flower show - I got lots of photos of lions, tigers and SNAKES! Also some great flowers and portraits of people. I made a friend - a woman captured me and held my had for 10 minutes and introduced me to her family and told me of her time 30 years ago studying to be a teacher in Baltimore. So now we are cooling and posting and going out to dinner shortly - got some great snake pictures for you Taran! Hugs from Mangalore - KB