On Sat we went here with Sridevi (who works with Naylor) & her family. MAHABALIPURAM will do a more thorough job than me of explaining what it is. But basically, it is a town with lots of historical sights- including the Seashore temple, Krishna’s butterball & lots of amazing carvings & large granite rocks. The kids (and us!) had such a blast- it is a super cool place & it was a wonderful day!! Afterward, we even went back to Senthil’s house for a really late (but yummy!) dinner (and more playing for the kids…)
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- Instant friends! Nitu & Edie
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- On the first of MANY big rocks
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- Listening to the guide
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- Kids-n-carvings
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- Close up of carvings
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- Cow-n-kids
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- More from our guide
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- She looks like she’s scolding him
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- Cow family
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- More carved rock
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- Another temple + kids
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- Three musketeers?
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- Here they are again
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- I am a rock
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- Friends with flowers
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- This was called the Five Rathas
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- Kooky cave kids
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- Elephant girls
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- Naylor is so tall here
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- Sharing a coconut
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- Ready for the meat
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- Sridevi & fam buying some mangos
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- Shoreline Temple
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- Another temple view
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- Fun on the rocks
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- Ganesha’s parents
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- Carvings
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- Naylor & Pugazendi
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- Jumping down
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- Two families
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- Carved from one big rock
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- IGG as deer
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- Lunch break
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- More elephant carvings
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- Amazons?
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- Close up of a cow getting milked
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- Cows & giraffe
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- Isaac & fan
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- That’s a nice sari
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- Isaac with more fans!
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- Carved out of the side of a rock!!
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- All that work!
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- Krishna’s butterball
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- Kids + ball
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- It used to be round- erosion
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- Kids + Mom
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- Tarrot reading bird
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- Girls & fertility carving
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- Rock slide
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- Nitu going down
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- Getting caught before the water at the bottom
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- Ice cream cools you down
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- Crowd heading down from observation tower
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- View from tower
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- Panoramic view w/lighthouse
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- Rock group
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- Lighthouse family
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- Deer warrior
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- Naylor in another life?
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- Climbing up
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- A taste of his own medicine
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- Panoramic w/lighthouse
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- They LOVED climbing all those rocks
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- Peep show
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- Climbing down the side of the rock
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- Jumping for joy
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- Relaxing with some homemade apple wine
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- The kids with wine
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- Sinchil as little backpack