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Drive through M-town

In a couple of weeks, we'll be leaving M-town, the city that we've been living in for the last year. The other day, we jumped on a rickshaw and went through town. M-town is famous for making sports equipment... cricket bats, ping-pong tables, etc... and we've been thinking about getting a ping-pong table or a foosball table. So we took a rickshaw to one of the shops that makes them...
I had fun taking pics along the way :) After much deliberation, we decided to get a fooseball table (or Football table as they call it here)... We wanted a ping-pong table, but they are too big for our house :) Oh well :) The football table will be fun :) We'll get it in about a month, so I'll be sure to post a picture when we get it :)

We alway see lots of interesting things as we drive across town :) This guy (below) was so fun to watch! He was on a cart that was stacked REALLY high with these brown bags... it was a cart pulled by an ox and it was really wiggling all around - yet somehow, the man on top was able to sleep soundly!! hahaha I thought it was awesome!!

This guy below was walking down the busy street selling ruffled potato chips!! It was a HUGE pile! I don't know how he was going to sell those before they become stale (or maybe that's not really an issue... I don't know :))

This guy below was out fixing bicycle tires... I just thought he was cool :)

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Emily said…
The Roberts challenge the Sheffermans to a game of foosball! :)
9:57 PM
SouthAsiaRocks said…
Awesome! You're on!! (in about a month...) :)
10:22 AM
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