Alright, so I got a little behind on writing this. And I'm really behind on updating it. That's life.

On the plane to Mumbai from Colombo now.

Slept in the morning after my last entry, waking up at some random hour but not getting out of bed until 9. Well, that's not true, at some truly ridiculously early hour, Matt banged on the door and said “Tim, hurry, hurry,” I put on some clothes and stumbled, bleary-eyed to the top deck, to him saying “look at this view, you won't get another chance to see it.” The sunrise was already over. Needless to say I went back to sleep, disgruntled.

We continued back towards Male, I don't remember much of the morning. Breakfast was standard, I think I've described breakfast on the boat often enough by now. We got to the airport island, thanked the crew, took some pictures, and headed out. Dhoni to Male, check into hotel, sit around for an hour, lunch time. A group of us went to a place nearby that Denny pointed out as having authentic Maldivian food. I had some sort of fish, fish manjura sounds right, had some sort of garlic sauce, and water. It was tasty, and reasonably priced.

After that Mike and I went back to the room and sat on our computers a lot. We had class at 6, talked mostly about other peoples' perceptions of us and our interactions... well. Moving on, dinner, big buffet thing. Delicious. I had giant prawn, squid, some sort of fish kebob that was awesome, pasta with napolithan or something like that sauce, papaya, something called “snake gourd fry” that was delicious, chocolate ice cream, and I think another fruit as well. Hard to remember it all. I took a wrong turn walking back, realized it quickly but decided I didn't care and enjoyed seeing the area. Walking past a playground was pretty cool, two or three groups of guys playing soccer, parents with their kids, that sort of thing. Headed back, got to the hotel, internet internet internet, sleep.

Woke up the next morning, breakfast was hot dogs, fruit, and pineapple juice. Class at 10, that ran 'til 11:30, got packed out, out of the room at noon. Mike and I went to the Maldivian place again, I had some fish and chips (good french fries) and a tasty chocolate milkshake. Stopped by a general store for some deoderant, and sat around the hotel some more. Denny wanted to go to the marine research center to thank the guy who set us up with Bluepeace, so John, Allen and I tagged along. Unfortunately, he wasn't there, so Denny left a note, but a nice woman showed us their museum. Small, she seemed unhappy with how old the specimens were, but it was cool to see. They had a whale skeleton of a whale that's actually never been seen alive, which was neat, a sperm whale skull, and lots of fish, coral and shells. Also a few posters explaining reefs that were nice.

We headed back from that, I goofed around a bit more, exchanged contact info with Saffah, airport time. Got to the airport, had to wait a while to go in, went in, had to wait a while to go through the last security check, watched Sky News, aka Murder News (seriously, I kid you not, that was a good 75% of it, all in a row too), went through security, sat around talking to Nate about video games, stood up, didn't go anywhere, sat around talking to Nate about video games, people from our group kept looking at us and laughing and I'm not sure why, got onto one of the buses, took us to the plane (about 10 minutes after our supposed departure time), on the plane, watched Tom & Jerry, land in Colombo, go to next gate, have trouble finding a proper adapter (thank you Caitlin for lending me yours), get on next plane, here I am. Mumbai in a couple hours, should be a good time.

Wednesday, February 17th, roughly 11:50 PM-12 AM local time