Vijayawada - Day 12 - Fever Goddess
Today was a kinda relaxing day compared to every other day.
Armpit had caught a really bad fever so our plans for the day kinda dissapeared. I was fine with that because it was kinda nice having a relaxing day seeing as our next few days will be hectic. So we stayed at home and looked after the Armpit. One thing we did do today tho was take family portraits as it was the last day in Vijayawada. So that was cool and now i have an invite back to India next year to be the photographer for Veni's wedding. Will definately take that offer up (Veni if your reading this) and if i am not busy. Fingers crossed i have a couple of weeks.
Me and Jayachand (Armpits dad) went to Kanakadurga temple on top of a hill later on in the night. Amazing as all the temples are here! This temple was devoted to the Goddess Kanakadurga. She is a very beautfull goddess and also has 8 arms and a very long tongue. It was incredible standing in front of her with everyone around chanting and praying. The funniest thing tho was with 2 kids in front of us getting blessed by the priest. You know when your at a fireworks display and everyone sees a pretty average one, they all go "Oooo" and then they seee a better than average one they go "Aaahh". And then there is the final display and the crowd goes "Whoa!!" Well, these two kids were in front of Kanakadurga looking pretty bored and praying to the goddess. As soon as they turned around and saw ME they both went "WHOA!" quite loud hahaha. I cracked up and then a few people around came out of prayer and laughed! I was just thinking, here i was looking at Kanakadurga, a very powerfull goddess, thinking to myself "whoa". And then these 2 kids not even noticing her but saying whoa to me!!!! hahaha. If i was her i would be a little annoyed ahaha.
As we were leaving the temple we walked past these people doing a ritual. This guy had a pitch fork (A PITCH FORK!!) sticking through his tongue! He was covered in ashes and paint. It was amazing and i could see that he was in quite a bit of pain. He was carrying jewels and flowers and food to give to the goddess. wow.
So, then we packed because we had an early morning train the next morning to Hyderabad (Hydrobutt - just for you Vicki :) I ended up sleepin on the couch (me and Armit had a fight). Na, because i did'nt want to catch whatever it was he had. So it was the first night that we havent slept together for about 2 and a half weeks. I could'nt sleep bacause i missed his muscly man arms wrapped around my body. YUCK! just joking!!
Sorry bout that image.
will go now
Lance
Armpit had caught a really bad fever so our plans for the day kinda dissapeared. I was fine with that because it was kinda nice having a relaxing day seeing as our next few days will be hectic. So we stayed at home and looked after the Armpit. One thing we did do today tho was take family portraits as it was the last day in Vijayawada. So that was cool and now i have an invite back to India next year to be the photographer for Veni's wedding. Will definately take that offer up (Veni if your reading this) and if i am not busy. Fingers crossed i have a couple of weeks.
Me and Jayachand (Armpits dad) went to Kanakadurga temple on top of a hill later on in the night. Amazing as all the temples are here! This temple was devoted to the Goddess Kanakadurga. She is a very beautfull goddess and also has 8 arms and a very long tongue. It was incredible standing in front of her with everyone around chanting and praying. The funniest thing tho was with 2 kids in front of us getting blessed by the priest. You know when your at a fireworks display and everyone sees a pretty average one, they all go "Oooo" and then they seee a better than average one they go "Aaahh". And then there is the final display and the crowd goes "Whoa!!" Well, these two kids were in front of Kanakadurga looking pretty bored and praying to the goddess. As soon as they turned around and saw ME they both went "WHOA!" quite loud hahaha. I cracked up and then a few people around came out of prayer and laughed! I was just thinking, here i was looking at Kanakadurga, a very powerfull goddess, thinking to myself "whoa". And then these 2 kids not even noticing her but saying whoa to me!!!! hahaha. If i was her i would be a little annoyed ahaha.
As we were leaving the temple we walked past these people doing a ritual. This guy had a pitch fork (A PITCH FORK!!) sticking through his tongue! He was covered in ashes and paint. It was amazing and i could see that he was in quite a bit of pain. He was carrying jewels and flowers and food to give to the goddess. wow.
So, then we packed because we had an early morning train the next morning to Hyderabad (Hydrobutt - just for you Vicki :) I ended up sleepin on the couch (me and Armit had a fight). Na, because i did'nt want to catch whatever it was he had. So it was the first night that we havent slept together for about 2 and a half weeks. I could'nt sleep bacause i missed his muscly man arms wrapped around my body. YUCK! just joking!!
Sorry bout that image.
will go now
Lance
posted by Lance Wordsworth @ 4:42 AM
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