475/3A Thimbirigasyaya Rd
Colombo 05 Sri Lanka

erry Christmas and Happy Chanukah!! It's Christmas Eve in Colombo and it is 86 degrees. With the humidity factor it feels like 95 according to my favorite weather site. At any rate, it's hot, damn hot. We will have a low key celebration here. Although you can get Christmas decorations I have yet to spy a menorah.

This will be brief because it's so hot in the internet cafe. We are fine although we sure are lonesome for family anfd friends. I've been a little teary this week but it is to be expected given the season. We got four dvds ($8 for 4, gee could they be bootleg?) today as everything will be closed tomorrow. Ron is taking Monday off and getting a massage. I found a wonderful massage therapist yesterday and will book him monthly. He is a blind Sri Lankan and in his 18th year of practice. A man we met at a party told us about him. He works out of the Hilton, which is not a convenient location but who cares!!!

We wish you all a wonderful holiday, and a New Year filled with joy and peace. Pray for peace here as the LTTE is acting out as of late in the north, testing the new president.