December 24

We found a very miserable Na'ama in the morning - she had thrown up at
night and was feeling very sick and weak. So we had to partake of the
lovely breakfast without her.

The first part of the drive was very slow - terrible traffic jams, and a
couple of stops for Na'ama to throw up. Once we left Bangalore the
highway became much better and we made good speed for 200 km. Then the
highway got bad again and Yuval got car sick so we had a couple more
throwing-up stops.

We met Jaikumar, Sumana, Samhita and Rikvik at Kamalpur and it was
great to see them again. The last time we saw the twins they did not
talk English but now their English is fluent and they are the nicest 9
year olds. They were a bit shy at first, but Rikvik overcame that
immediately and Samhita did too after a while. This was the first
evening we had to relax and we spent it talking, playing games, riding
bikes and shopping at Hampi Bazaar. The hotel was very simple and the
beds rather hard - felt a bit like the Beduin hut in the Sinai. We
decided we'd rather not spend 3 nights there, so Jaikumar spent hours on
a very slow Internet connection and managed to get us all train tickets
to Bangalore on the 26th.