Colombo, Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka Day 1 So we arrived in Sri Lanka on Tuesday Night so we are not going to count that as a day. Hence, we start with Wednesday. I’m trying this voice to text thing and it’s not really working so if you notice something crazy that I missed in my edits, that’s why. Anyways that’s the story we are going with. So our first day in Sri Lanka was a city tour of the Capital city Colombo. We drove around and saw a lot of old buildings from the colonial time. We did not get out of the bus much. The main highlight was a Buddhist temple that we did stop and see (shoes off). Our main takeaway from this temple is that Buddhists, at least Buddhists in Sri Lanka have a lot of rules governing selfies. You are not allowed to take a picture with a Buddah, but they are literally every where, ergo it’s impossible to take a selfie in the temple. Now you know why there have been shockingly few Facebook pictures so far (or you would if you were a fan of thetwinsontour on Facebook like you are supposed to be.) Later we stopped at an outdoor monument surrounded by lion statues. And what do you know, there are even more selfie rules about the Lion statues. You can take a picture with the lions but you cannot sit on the lions for your picture or strike a funny pose with the lions. These Sri Lankan people sure do have a lot of selfie rules. We did discover a grocery store in the basement of the shopping mall adjacent to our hotel. There were some real treasures in the candy aisle! Apple flavored milk candy (like a green apple Hershey bar) for 20 rupees! That is like 13 cents! And these little packs of m&m type candies, but in strawberry or orange flavor for 10 rupees. How can you go wrong for 6 cents? Can you say cheap souvenir?! Ha ha, I can! You get a candy bar! And you get a candy bar! And you get Sri Lankan m&m’s! I will be stocking up on these tasty Sri Lankan delights! We enjoyed the grocery store so much that we went twice. In one afternoon. That’s how we roll. Ok, that’s enough for now because as usual we are way behind. Love, Thetwinsontour