Kandy - May Day

 Public holiday made the walk around the lake much nicer . 

Headed to watch King Kong Godzilla at the theatres with Saven and as the rest of his family was sick he spent the rest of the day with us , basically a day of Savik and him  playing and annoying each other. He went home that night saying it was one his best days so I think the annoying part was lower down the chain.

It is our last day in Kandy so spent the afternoon at Jeevan’s father’s place. The grandchildren all running around being noisy and happy.

Happy memories all around .

Kandy - Temple and Magic

 

 Due to our regular visits to KCC the kids are steadily making their way through the different flavours of the popsicles near the entrance to the mall. They also had a Soy icecream and ice cream later in the evening too, Aanya is in heaven .

We headed to the temple for the evening prayers, it was so so busy with tourists (good for the economy). There is an area where you can wash the flowers prior to offering them, it is a sensor spray , we had to pull the kids away as the flowers had been washed a few too many times.

The day ended with a magic performance by Savik and Aanya as his assistant (also the entertainer while Savik was preparing for his next trick). His ending got a little messed up as the card trick didn’t go to plan but had us laughing a lot as the predicted answer was written on his chest which he was going to show with a flourish . Aanya had written it for him misspelt a word which made it even funnier. 

Magical day 🤪

Kandy- admin day

 Today was a day of nothing to note kind of day . Walk around the lake while the kids slept, so different on a busy Monday morning with blaring traffic than previously. The pink flowers blooming earlier in the month have also vanished . So good exercise but not as peaceful as before . 

School work , dental visits with a visit to the shops for icecream thrown in to the mix and that was it . 

Kandy- Awurudu celebrations

 As April draws to an end to the Awurudu celebrations continue. We went to one at the tennis club organised by Jeevan’s brother. I was like excited to wear our outfits again and we received a lot of compliments for them (passed them on to my SIL). It was great to see the kids enthusiastically play all the games. Aanya won the lemon in the spoon race and Savik the fastest bun eating competition after which he felt sick and also lost a tooth. There was tug of war (Jeevan and I were on opposite teams), breaking of the pots (adults cheated and could see through the blindfold), one legged pillow fight in a ring (Jeevan and his brother were opponents for one round) and a lot more games.

These bits are some of my favourite things of the trip, children getting to take part in things we did as children and spending time with their cousins.

I accidentally broke Aanya’s prize (a glass bottle) so had quite a grumpy child on the way home. We aren’t going to be taking Savik’s prize with us either, due to lack of space so I think that helped ease the anger.

In the evening we were back at the club for the cousins to play some tennis away from the heat of the day. Savik and Saven are similar in age and similar in skills and both a little too confident of their awesomeness so made it fun to watch.

Ella Rock & Ambuluwawa tower

 

 

 

Early morning rise to beat the heat as we climbed Ella Rock. It was initially tricky to find the way and we were expecting that given the blogs I had read prior to arriving. I was quite sad to see that some of the signs had been rubbed off so that people wouldn’t know the way and be more inclined to hire guides. We veered off the path twice but locals called out to us and got us back on the right path.

It was bit of a challenge and there were bits where Savik wanted us to turn back but managed to cajole him along. Aanya lost steam at the top when we still had to walk around to get to the viewpoint. 

I remembered my mother’s method and we started singing interactive songs, enough of a distraction to get her to the spot where we sat and looked out at the beautiful view and ate breakfast. 

Once food was in, the kids were both jumping around and the trek down was quick and fun as played guessing games along the way.

We had the top pretty much to ourselves as the sunrise crowd had left and the next lot hadn’t arrived (we met a lot of people as we were walking down and they were coming up). Kids were very happy to tell people along the way as to how hard the last bit was going to be, I think they might have stressed a group of young people.

After a much needed shower we did a quick drive through town before making our way back to Kandy.

Along the way we stopped at a tea estate and then Ambuluwaawa Biodiversity park . Luckily I had no clue about the tower and had not seen any videos of what was to come. I was very surprised to find out that no one has died on the tower as yet. It is a tower at the top of a hill that has a spiral staircase on the outside that gets narrower as you climb up. The railing is relatively short with large gaps on it, Aanya would easily fit through. The kids were screaming we are going to die as we got closer and closer to the top. Happy to say we survived. 

Back to Kandy at night, happy to see family again. Aayna happiest to see Olaf the white rabbit . 

Ella - day 2

 

After having explored most of what we wanted yesterday today was a bit of a laze around day. 

We rechecked that Aanya couldn’t do the zip line, did not gain 8kg overnight !  So off the kids went to climbing the tower instead. It was Aanya’s first time in a harness and climbing and she was an absolute pro and loved it.

I did a quick trip up to Little Adam’s peak while we awaited their turn and then spent the afternoon lounging in Ravana pool bar, looking at the scenery and people watching . 

Aimed for an early night so we can be recharged for climbing Ella rock tomorrow.