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We're Back!!


We're back!! WHoo hoo! It's nice to be back, but it's also about 20-30 degrees hotter... so it's both good ad bad :) Some friends in the capital were moving out, so we bought some of their stuff from them... we really loaded up the car we rented. It was a funny trip back (although it wasn't that funny at the time)... The car was so packed out, that Adam and I had to both sit in the front seat with the driver. It was hot (about 113 degrees) and the AC in the car wasn't working (although the driver really wanted to have it on and it almost made it worse b/c it was blowing out HOT air)... We were all sweaty and gross and sitting really close to each other.... Before we got out of the capital we ran out of gas and had to coast into the gas station (going the wrong way on a one-way street) THEN the driver decides to go back a strange way and we got stuck in a lot of traffic. Then we had to pull over and talk to the cops and pay some sort of road tax in the middle of nowhere... Then, later in the middle of nowhere (again)... our taxi driver found another taxi driver he knew and we had to pull over and they talked for a while.... Eventually we got home... whoo hoo!!

Anyway, here's a couple of slide shows from our trip down south!! Here's some pics from the city we spent most of our time in... B-lore:



Here's some pics from our excursion to M-sore:

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