Sunday, January 25, 2009

Aurangabad!

hello hello! hope your all doing well. we are great. as you could guess from the title, were in aurangabad, you have no idea how long it took me to figure out how to say that let alone spell it... actually sam had to spell it. shes a spelling bee wizz by the way!!

its nice here. hot during the day, but good. to get here we had to catch the 0625 train. that means we had to get up at 0400! ugh. And thats after we were up till 0100 finishing packing after dinner. But thats nothing compared to rochester, juroska and joan who got up earlier to wake us, and for rochester to accompany us to the train station. after helping us get loaded up to the train, it started moving before he could get off... haha and to all of our great surprise it didnt stop until leaving town and arriving 20 minutes some where else. thanks alot rochester. and sorry again. haha. the three of us find ourselves floored over and over again by the generosity of the rocha family. thank you, thank you, thank you.

the train ride was good. only we were all pretty bagged. sleep wasnt likely, but the other two tried. beautiful veiws. only got touched once each by lady men, begging for money and figuring making everyone uncomy enough to pay them to go away was a good tactic... it was and we paid.

now in town its pretty nice. went to a grocery store that was more like a department store than a grocery store but none the less. (the three of us always seem to feel at home in grocery stores, if that makes sense) but the caves near by are the attraction. they are these ancient caves carved out in the 6-8th centuries. amazing. caves with pillars, and statues carved out of a mountain. just amazing. cant talk to do it justice. very impressive.

anyways there are some new pics up on flickr
http://flickr.com/photos/31168733@N02/
check it out.

hope your all well. take care.