Monday, January 12, 2015

Why is everyone calling me stupid?

I know, I know...that should be an easy one to answer.  Everywhere we went today (another temple tour...I already mentioned the 22 billion temples), people around me kept saying stupid, stupid, stupid...I was very offended!  I asked Cassandra why everyone was calling me stupid, and she explained they weren't calling me stupid, they were saying stuppa...apparently that means temple...how stuppa is THAT!

Anyway, the first thing (other than breakfast) we did was steal a tuktuk...
...that way I could do a tour the way it should be...a stupid...er...stuppa tour!  We could see this stuppa first, so we headed for it...
...we were just ahead of the cops, but easily lost them by laying down a methane fog...and started the tour at some temple called a stuppa...

...as you can see, I was tilting a bit to the left, and we almost ran into this guy...
...he got my attention...maybe it was those long, beautiful eyelashes...hmmmm, where was I...oh ya, the tour.  Anyway, here's some of that tour stuff (not to be confused with the stuppa stuff)...
 Remember I told you about those little side-stuppa's...here's what's inside one of them...
 ...and the outside was carved out of a big rock...see the elephant...
...in the pond were these fish...
...on the ceiling were these cool tiles...this is just one of them...
...this thing was carved out of solid rock 2200 years ago...here's how you get on the roof of it...
...once you get on the roof, there's a mini-stuppa...only 12' high...
...then we hid out in some caves the monks use for sleeping or having sex...
 ...they had been laying around there for 2200 years, and the rocks got smooth...so we laid down and...well, we laid down...
...and the rock started to move, so I saved Cassandra!
That's the kind of guy TLD is!  After I secured the rock, we got out of there...down the hand carved stairs...
...came to this place that kinda looked the same...sort of...
...and way off in the distance, guess what we saw?...yep...stuppa!
...there were some nice little flowers...
...then we found the star map that ET left for me...
...there are two more like this...one in Egypt, the other is at a McDonald's outside of Newark New Jersey.  Anyway, we saw some other stuff...
 ...and they used this to make rice for 6000 monks every day...no, REALLY!
 I don't think they use it anymore...maybe.  Anyway, then we went to the gardens of the king and queen...had some kind of special name but it was in that stupid foreign language...anyway...
Those are the private bathing pools of the king, queen, Oprah, and Dick Cheney.  Then we came across an old house in the woods...found 4 Watchtower magazines on the front steps...
...and there was Cassandra recording the event...
Anyway, moving on...
Cassandra got hungry with all this running from the law...
...polished off some curds and honey...then it was almost time to take the tuktuk back...


That's it for today folks!

Sunday, January 11, 2015

To market, to market, to buy a....

Anuradhapura might be like visiting Cleveland...we don't know, but it's got a cool market!  We're way ahead of most of you reading this...a day ahead in most cases, so Sunday here is Saturday where you are.  I watched the Seahawks win this morning, and after the game, we walked down to the Sunday market.

...yup...fish in a bag.  As they say..."if we don't got it, you don't need it!"  Several people ASKED to have their pictures taken...like this guy...
...his English was pretty good, and didn't ask for my autograph until later.  Everyone is just trying to get by...
...and this woman brought her little cutie with her...
Everyone was tickled that I would take their photo, then show them...










...look at this guy's produce display...very cool!
...does anyone know what this is all about?
Cassandra is taking a cooking class at the guest house today, this is her buying something for the class.
While Cassandra is off at the cooking class, she made me read about the election here.  Fortunately for me, correct information has never gotten in the way what I know to be true...or something.