Dec 24 afternoon

Well, after flying for almost 24 hours and several delays, we have just spent 24 hours in Point Blair, India.Point Blair is on the Andaman islandswhich are on the bay of Bengal, east of India,very close to Thailand.The weather is very tropicalmeaning over 30 today with nice light breeze coming from the NW. Our hotel is the Fortune Bay resort and it is very comfortable,meals are greatand tomorrow we head up to the nicest island, beaches and snorkeling in the word(time magazine says so).we will stay at havelock island for 2+ days before returning here. Our brief time in town and in Chennai would tell us that things are pretty disorganized when it comes to roadways and driving,Chennai has 4 mikllion people and the biggest road is 4 lanes,this includes bikes, motorbikes, cars ,cows, dogs and people.

After travelling for over 30 hours we had very little sleep in our very nice hotel in Chennai. Dec23 was very tough on uswe tried to stay awake all day butI failed by 6:30 at night whenIwas watching a presentation about point blairs famous prisonI fell asleep,but i managed to stay awake till 9:00 pm before I crashed, Jan had a tougher time sleeping because she got more sleep on planes and in Chennaiwe both had naps today and think we will be able to give 110% when we go to Havelock is tomorrow I think the sun and snorkelling will be just what the Dr ordered.Already wish we had a waterproof camera , I guess the reefs etc are incredible.I probablywon'tpost for 2 days till we getback to here on the 27th. Jan and I miss our kids at Christmas, there is very little notice or mention of it here, all the shops are open from 10am to 8pm, like normal