Our year in India: Kerala!

We had some time off work as it was Diwali here last week, so me, Stephen, his mum and dad flew down to Kovalam in Kerala for five days.
Kovalam is a town next to the beach and very pretty. Although it is full of rubbish along all the roads but when you get to the beach it is all nice again.
It took us about 4 hours to fly there, we had to make one stop and pick up / let people get off. It was easy enough.

The first evening was the evening when they celebrate Diwali, and we did email them and asked if they had anything special planned and they said no. When we got there they said they had planed fireworks on the beach and we must come. That is India for you!
So me and Stephen dressed up in our finest Indian outfits (the only ones we have ) and surprised his parents as they haven't seen us in them. I had to ask one of the ladies who worked there to do it up properly for me as I still have no idea!
We had a lovely fresh fish meal down at the beach and lots of people came up to us telling us how good we looked.

On the Friday we went on a tour down to the most southern part of India where three seas meet. We were supposed to take a boat over to some statues in the sea but it was too rough to do it. So we went to see some temples and did some shopping!
The rest of the week we just relaxed, had a jacuzzi all to our self and enjoyed life!

It rained most afternoons so that gave us a reason for afternoon sleeps!

It was a great long weekend and I can't wait to go back next week with Neil and Heather who is visiting us from tonight. Stephens parents are now away for a week starting in Agra and wont come back until our friends have gone!