Bye Monica!

As you've noticed, we've been lucky enough to be joined by Monica G. for the last two weeks on our travels. She has taken ill of our inane banter and stupid games and has thus decided to hit the high-road. As such, she will be visiting Kodaikanal, a hill station set up by friendly 'muricans in 1840. We miss her already and wish her well.

You can follow her travels via her blog - monicaintheworld.blogspot.com.

Note: We were joined by M's friend Annabelle in our early weeks of traveling. Even though AB is too cool to have a blog, we miss her and hope that she has good luck on job interviews. AB recently wrote M to request that she put a link to FabIndia on our fair blog (This is a complete lie). Thanks for the reminder AB - Consider it done.

Today we dug Chola Bronzes at the Thanjavur Art Gallery. I don't know how many we saw - My head was spinning after the first hundred. They were all intricate bronze sculptures, ranging in size from two inches to 4 feet. These sculptures were designed to be portable worshipping tools, for hindoos on the go. Since the temples were too heavy, Brahmins would shuttle the sculptures through town and perform drive-by worshipping services. It seems very convenient. I'm continually impressed by our host country's efforts to improve efficiency.

Most CBs featured my boy Shiva, the Nataraja dancing machine, high stepping on a crying child (or evil monster) and surrounded by a ring of fire. Shiva's hair is flying like medusa-snake dreads. We also saw lots of tasy bits of shivas chief consort Parvothi. She's a hot little number! When I suggested to M that her backside resembled that of Shiva's other consort Uma, she smacked me and wished aloud that I had gone to Kodaikanal instead of Monica. You can see why I like traveling with M.