Happy New Year!!!

So, I am back....it is 2010 and we are now working our way through a brand new year! how has it been so far for you?

For me, well pretty much a bit low key, nothing spectacular yet so far, except for a show down at the airport in sri lanka with sri lankan airport staff for their lack of customer service, information and down right disregard for the paying customer.....oh well more on that one another time...right about now, i am thinking happy thoughts...

My children and I had a beautiful well deserved break in sunny Sri Lanka over the christmas and new year period and we visited family and friends and i was able to introduce my children to my childhood, where i grew up and the people i grew up with. The lifestyle and the background.

Whilst we did play tourists in our homeland we also experienced the moments of family nostalgia and the appeciation of being able to have time on our hands. We got to just run free along the beach and literally feel the sand between our toes and scream our lungs out at every wave that came crashing into us! It was so much fun and a great way of releasing the stress!

We lounged in the sun, basqued in the heat and sipped on ice coffee and spent alot of time comparing drinks between places we stayed and flitted to and from.

We played and bathed with elephants and we have a trunk full of memories of our long journey up to the up country and trying to locate a place we did not think existed and then having a moment of actually living out a chapter from a Famour Five novel when we went looking for folk in the dark woods...and then came across a small hut with four young volunteers.....

Coming back to colombo, we saw the lush land that we called home, the crazy driving and the fact that our people were not doing themselves any favours with the current attitude that they seem to have taken on.

I was able to be apart of a momentous occassion when my child hood friend got married. I was lucky to have been there for her, her hen night and watch her as a beautiful bride on her wedding day! This was a friend that i knew from a very young age and was very close to. These are the moments that living on the other side of an ocean that you miss.....

We also experienced a very different type of Christmas and New Years. Christmas was spent with the friends and eating and just relaxing. There was no consumer expectations, no materialistic motivation or just doing the same old same old. It was unpressured unpretentious and very real.....we were all together!

New Years Eve was spent at home on the rooftop balcomy listening to the fireworks and the ships at the harbour blowing their horns.....it was a worldly celebration.....within the comforts of family. We lit fireworks and just stood in silence each of us breathing in the New Year and then we wished each other a Happy New Year genuinely!

It was perfect.....xxxx

We have taken loads of pics, but have not yet sifted through them and decided which ones we want to put out publicly, so bear with us.......pics will be up soon x