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.. So, we are just over 2 weeks in now and have seen and done so much already, it seems like we have been away for a lot longer! We all began hand-writing in diaries to keep our memories and adventures safe so we could remember and look back on everything. However, like most young adults who have left school and become un-employed we got very lazy! So we have opted to typing up our daily adventures and posting them onto this wonderful blog to share with our wonder family and friends! Any atrocious spelling and grammar mistakes found will most likely be the parts written by Jamie. Happy reading!
16th September - Our first port of call was Srilanka, the home of land-mines and Tamal tigers! After a 10 hour flight we landed at Colombo airport on the morning of the 16th of September at 2am local time (for us, not you suckers at home in the wind, rain and most likely soon to be snowy England!). We headed straight to Negombo and stayed at 'marine tourist guest house' for the night, we had some lovely pink bunk beds with just the four of us in the room and we couldn't really complain! It was pretty good! When we finally awoke at midday by some awfully loud Sri-lankan music! We went out to explore. After strolling happily to the beach in our swimsuits hoping for a day of Bay-watch running and sun, we paused still on the beach as it poured down with rain, therefore we opted to a run down on the beach, empty bar to grab some grub. Whilst we were eating and being watched closely by the local cats, an old man came along, happy as larry and offered to take us on a trip on a catamaran (a man-made boat) in a lagoon. We left via tuk-tuk and drove through Negombo. We finally pulled up to our destination, to our surprise the lagoon was just off of a graveyard, where people were waiting to be buried! Yes, we had just tuk-tuk crashed a funeral. When we first saw the catamaran it did look like it could possibly fall apart but as we got going it was awesome and we found out it was 10 years old and still going strong, so it was all good. We took it in turns to go and sit out at the side of the boat where a log met the side of the raft allowing us to feel like were on the titanic, almost. We were cruising along with some crazy Sri-lankan men and they began to bang on the boat, we were all a bit worried that we were going down! However, they were banging to encourage tiny little silver fish to jump out of the water and there were hundreds of them, it was crazy! We also got to see part of the sunset out on the lagoon and I speak in behalf of us all, we enjoyed our first trip.
On the way home we were taken to a natural herbs and medicine garden, we were given a tour around some strange plants that supposedly did all of these natural cures. To prove that they work the man that gave us a tour insisted that we tried one of them out, the natural hair removal remedy. Yes, once again it was left to Ryan to show off, he applied some of the cream onto Ryan's hairy hand and left it for 20 minutes as we wandered around, we then got to wipe it off with a dry piece of tissue and yes, he had a bald patch left on his hand. Gutted. We were then taken through a list of some of the things people tend to come to the garden to buy, on the sheet of paper explained a natural remedy to increase your sex drive (anyone under the age of 16 please shut your eyes) he offered it to me and Ryan! Ryan then awkwardly had to try and explain that were brother and sister and that it was highly inappropriate! He then tried to offer it to Jamie and Jenna thinking that they were a MARRIED COUPLE! It all go a bit hair raising (not for Ryan's hand) and he did panic thinking we would not see it as a joke and cost him his job! We then returned back to the comfort of our cheap pink bunk-bed luxury.
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