I’m feeling a little bit pathetic at this moment because I cannot, for the life of me, decide which colors to use in my front room! You see I have purchased four sets of curtains (three of which will be used as actual curtains, and one will be used as ‘door curtains’) One set is yellow, one blue, one green and one orange (yes they are all vibrantly bright happy colors! When I picked these curtains out I thought I’d use the orange set for the windows in my room, the green ones for the second bedroom, the yellow set for the windows in the front room and the blue ones above the two doors in the front room…Now that I have them all here I have NO CLUE as to what to do. PLEASE HELP ME!!! I’m not kidding, I’ve moved these damn things around about 10 times and still I am without an answer – I know this is quite sad! I can make important life altering decisions in the time it takes you to snap your fingers….but something like this….oh my goodness! Now I’m leaning towards the yellow ones above the doors and either the green or the orange ones for the windows in the front room – but I need to decide early tomorrow b/c the curtain guy has to make floor cushions for the front room too and he currently thinks he will make blue ones come Monday – yet I don’t think that is what I want anymore… Ok, now that I have shared my pitiable story with you all I will let it go for tonight. I am hopeful that a good nights sleep with bring clarity to this simple little insignificant decision – that I can’t seem to make!

On a slightly more intellectual note ;) I spent the last day and ½ traveling! Mona and I left early Friday morning and just returned this afternoon from a 40 hour trip tour. We went to Belur, Halebid, Hassan, and Shravanabelagola. I’m gonna leave out ALL the details now b/c I will be going in depth on these historical sites in the following days (along with pictures of course!) – I’m just gonna mention them in passing here. Belur is about three hours from Mysore and is well known for its beautiful, ancient, sacred Hindu temple. Halebid, not far from Belur, is another noteworthy ancient Hindu temple. After our tours of Belur and Halebid we made our way to Hassan where we stayed for the evening. Mona and I enjoyed walking around the town (although truly very little to see or do) – we found a very nice restaurant, close by our hotel, where we parked ourselves for several hours talking, drinking wine, and eating delicious food. When we got back to our hotel Mona was hoping to play Uno with me, but I unfortunately had other plans…After a quick wash of the face and brush of the teeth I quite literally laid down in bed and IMMEDIATELY passed out cold for the evening. Apparently I was worn out! We woke this morning, showered, had a bite to eat and headed towards our last stop on our journey, the town of Shravanabelagola, a very holy place for Jain worshippers. The major attraction in Shravanabelagola is the monumental image of Sri Gomateswara. I cannot begin to tell you how beautiful this statue is – it stands in 57 feet of spendor (some sources say 58 to 59 – who knows who cares – it is gigantic and glorious). It lies at the very very top of the Vindhyagiri – a hill 470 feet above the soils surface. We had to climb over 500 steps to reach the top of the hill and continued trekking upwards towards the entrance of the enclosed area where Sri Gomateswara resides. Utterly breathtaking! Stunning in all his majesty. Peaceful… I’ll fill you in in more detail by Tuesday once I have enough time to upload my pictures and properly write about the glory of these sacred ancient monuments that remain for us to see today!

Once we climbed down the Vindhyagiri hill and got to the car we began our several hour journey home. I slept nearly the whole way back, on poor Mona’s lap to boot! I don’t know what it is, like a new born baby, as soon as I get into a car I am out cold…works like a charm everytime!