Surf n' Safari

** Note:  We wrote this blog 3 days ago and just found enough internet to actually upload pictures and post.  Sorry for the delay!**

After a much anticipated safari in Tissa where we were lucky enough to see wild animals galore (and we had the creepy/unique experience of standing on the ruins of an old hotel that was annihilated and where 47 tourists died at 9:20 am 8 years exactly to the day that the Boxing Day Tsunami hit SE Asia), we said our goodbyes to hill country and headed to our next destination in Sri Lanka -- the beach!!

We like to take pride in how well we can "do the beach!"  We have spent years honing our skills of lying in the sun, reading books, swimming in the water, eating cheap sea food, and drinking even cheaper beer.  Mirissa, Sri Lanka now gets to see our skills put into action as the next week we post up and enjoy all that beach life has to offer.  The location is post-card worthy.  It is an idyllic little town that offers palm trees, surfers, and coconuts for sale (opened for you via the sharpest rock).  It has taken us about. .5 of a day to settle into our beach routine.  We are grateful for some down time and time to just be.  And, as 2012 rolls to an end, it is the perfect location for some reflection on where we have been and where we would still like to be (note:  Heidi has made a rule that deciding the "where we want to be" part can only be taken seriously if beer consumed > 2)!!

Happy campers on the beaches of Mirissa.  Goodbye Jungle.  It's been real.

Not a bad way to spend the day.