Yesterday I spent the whole day with Lise. I had 3 loads of laundry to do and she is letting me use her washer. It is so nice of her! I really feel for the men and ladies here that do laundry for their job! My back and wrists really hurt after all the bending over and wringing clothes out. Also it aggravates my eczema, and then it is inflamed for two days afterwards. But if I didn't do it at least every other day, it would just pile up! So I am very grateful that Lise lets me do it there. It is also nice to have someone to talk to during the day. She shows me pictures of her kids and grandkids and her and Jorns house. It is fun to spend time with her. She often makes lunch for us too. I sure miss having a kitchen!
Kevin and I have a list of foods that we are going to devour as soon as we get back to the USA! We also are planning a welcome home BBQ and inviting our friends from Kansas, and having a night where we go to the buffet at the casinos! I would really love a salad bar!

Today around noon the cleaning people came. It is usually the older, sweet guy that comes later in the day and he has a new guy helping him. So I had them come in to clean. The new guy was cracking me up, and I was doing the same for him. He saw Kevins Hindi dictionaries and asked if I was learning Hindi (I think, it was mostly gestures). I said no, I only knew a few words. But he kept trying to talk to me even though he only knew like 4 English words, and I know even fewer Hindi words. So most of it was guessing. At one point he was asking, I think, if I knew some of the letters in the Hindi alphabet. I told him I knew some, but it was really hard because so many sound the same to me. (That is why I quit Hindi class, they had Tha, Ta, and Taa or whatever, that is the English spelling by the way, but they all sound the same to me, and even when our teacher took a few of us aside to try to help us, he couldn't explain the differences, or give us English words that had those sounds as examples. Plus, I was trying to learn Spanish at the same time, too confusing!) Anyway, when I said "Tha, ta, and taa" to the cleaning guy, he started laughing so hard that he crouched down on the floor and started banging his head on the desk! He was funny. Then he started teaching me the words for mom, dad, brother and sister. Then he tried to teach me the Hindi word for movie, I think. I couldn't understand it, so I just said "bollywood!" He again started lauhing so hard he fell on the floor! The older guy was just chuckling the whole time. When they left, I said thank you in Hindi "Daniovad". The younger guy started laughing again as they walked out. It was a good time.
Lise and Jorn went with some other friends up to Amritzar this weekend. Lise lent us her bicycle so Kevin and I can go on a ride together out to the place where Jorn takes all his amazing pictures. I hope we see some of the animals and birds out there when we go. That would be cool. We can get some awesome pictures of our own!
I will try to get the Khajuraho pics up soon!
Thats all.