The other day my laptop finally used that last bit of juice that was left in it's battery. According to our Lonely Planet Travel guide electric adapters were simple to pick up in Colombo. The book has been right about most things except this. We spent a few days trying to find some adapters. We found one store that thought they could use my existing power adapter for my Mac and just pull the cord out. I thought for sure they would either 1.) just break the whole thing altogether leaving me with nothing, or 2.) the newly created electric plug-in would short my computer. I was a bit worried to say the least. We came back a few hours later and they were just finishing up on my new charger. It looked very odd but it worked. So, my computer will be fully charged for the trip. So, far no shortages!

We left Colombo yesterday and traveled south to Bentota. The train to Bentota was packed! A very nice Sri Lankan helped guide us to the correct train and also encouraged two people to get up so we could squeeze all of our luggage into a seat and sit down. It is fairly true that Sri Lankans are friendly and want to help.

The internet in our hotel is wonky so I can't upload pictures. We stepped across the road to an internet cafe so I coud at least update the site.

We are on the ocean and the water is amazing! We hired a tuk-tuk (a 3 wheeler taxi) to take us to Brief Garden today. Brief Garden was the home of Bevis Bawa, brother of the famous Geoffrey Bawa, Sri Lankan architect.

Tomorrow we head farther south to Galle where I hope we'll be able to get some wi-fi for my laptop so I can post some of the amazing pictures that we've taken.