Straight from the Diary...
Day 7 build day 2

pass cement

Nehru St
roof top restaurant

Day 8

dig trenches--move cement
prommanade
wander French area
eat yummy sweets
cross between fudge and shortbread

Day 9 & 10 Thursday/Friday
build day 4 and 5

-moving bricks & cement

Friday night pizza in French Quarter in real clay oven
yummy.

Saturday and Sunday February 9/10
tours of temples and monuments
lunch Sunday at resort, private buffet under coconut trees
-A. drives tuktuk
-Sunday mailed postcards from resort

Monday
back at the build site
took photos with Nunavut flag
Ali's bday she's going to help cook our supper in the hotel kitchen
-we are all getting dressed up!
-wore my sari--lots of compliments, had an Indian lady help me fix it--need shoes!
-had another dream last night--C. asked if it was another nightmare I said she should decide--Britany Spears was in it--we both agreed--nightmare.

So basically, we shifted a lot of cement and bricks at the build site. I was so exhausted every night that by the time I got to bed I wrote two lines and fell asleep. I've included a few pics that might lend themselves to a better explaination.


These two monkeys had stolen someones lunch bag and were having themselves a picnic.


At the build site.


The hard work continues.


J's arm taken at night while A. drives the tuk tuk.


Local help at the build site.


Team Canada.


A. cooking up a storm in the kitchen. It was YUMMY!


I'm not a good Indian woman...so I constantly need my sari fixed...this lovely woman stopped to help me out.


Me in my full sari attire.