Saturday, September 13, 2008

Destination: Kerala

Last Weekend my friend Ravi got married. It was an arranged marriage. So, myself and 8 of the guys form work drove 12 hours down to a city in Kerala called Guruvayoor. We rented a van/bus thing. Here's a photo from the drive down:



The wedding itself was pretty crazy, they were getting married at a Hindu Temple, but so were a bunch of other people, so they got in line with all the other couples and one by one the couples were married. There was something like 20,000 people at the Temple site and we were packed in there pretty tight. But it was a neat experience.
Ravi and his wife getting married.

On the way back we decided to go to the coast of the Arabian Sea. We gave this fisherman some rupees to take us out on the boat. The boat was very unstable and once we were pretty far out I come to find out that more than half these people can't swim. And of course the ones that couldn't swim were the guys trying to flip the boat. Good times.
Guess which one is me.
Kerala has a lot of elephants. After the beach we stopped at this cool elephant farm place where they had over 50 elephants. That was fun.

After I got back I was really sick and had malaria or something, but I'm starting to feel better, but that's why I haven't updated this thing in a while, plus I've been very busy at work on the days I didn't call in sick. Football season is underway and so my life is improving week by week.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

That photo of you guys at the beach is amazing. =) I love it.

Little Hensley Fam said...

so how many more weddings do you expect to go to while you're living there in India? It just seems like you've been to quite a few!
The photo at the beach was hilarious by the way!

Unknown said...

Jake went to Kerala and all I got was this lousy contagious malaria!
Good times.
Thanks, Jake.

jeNnA said...

hehehe... Maybe you can have your friend arrange a marriage for you while you are there. That would give you at least one more wedding to go to! :) j/k

Yeah and I think your life is getting better because you only have 3 months until it is time to come home! :)

Anonymous said...

Haha, I concur about the beach photo :)
Is Ravi the one that was in love with another girl but had an arranged marriage?
-court

-Jake said...

Ravi was in love with his cousin but couldn't marry her because she didn't have enough money for the dowery.