The last days of our sacred journey have been delightful. We stayed in the fabulous Marari Beach Resort. I had a private cottage in a palm tree jungle very near the Arabian Sea. The weather was perfect and thew sea very warm. We all need time to chillout after our 17 day journey. Kerela is a different India. The government is communist and many people are Christian. In the early morning you can hear gregorinan chants mingled with muslim call to prayer and happy Hindu's. The spa offers an Auyvertic Doctor who prescribes special herbs and treatment for what ever aliments you wish to work on. My shoulders are knot free and my skin is as soft as a babies behind. The herbs really get things moving and I am feeling very energetic!

Yesterday was an amazing day. Rosanne and I left the hotel with a private car and were driving about 2 hours to an elephant santuary on the Peryiar River. As we came down the hill, it was lightly raining and we discovered 5 elephants and there owner/trainers in the river for morning baths. The male was huge with long ivory tusks, about 12 years old. The female was 39 and really enjoying her scrubing. 3 young elephants were arguing sometimes loudly about all the scrubing. There were only a few other travelers who followed the young elephants when there bath was over. I was invite to help and joined the trainers to scrub the female. She and I bonded and made eye contact. I sang to her and scrubed her. She seemed to purr and occasionally take a trunk full of water and spray us both. I did not mind and felt tears of joy as we shared a special moment. The other trainers were laughing and teasing the big male. I touched his beautiful ivory tusks and possed with the trainers. We all laughed alot and really enjoyed the morning bath. When the elephants were done the boys all had there baths. I then helped with the elephant breakfast and was offered a ride on my friendly female. I