Sarah has done an amazing job keeping the home schooling up until the Husbands come and, to be fair, the kids have coped fairly well with Mum teaching them too, so Rob and I offered to have the kids this afternoon whilst the ladies went to spent the cash!!We took the kids to Lalbagh Botanical Gardens which we have been to a number of times but the Husbands had yet to experience. I blogged about this place a little while back - remember the little golf caddy thing we went round in??
They have some amazing trees there, many of them hundreds of years old. My favourite is this 200 year old cotton tree on who's roots the kids enjoyed climbing.
Two other quick blog type items we have forgotten to mention....:
1. The corporate training is off! We had a call late yesterday to say that for various reasons it was not going to work. Bit gutted really but I felt we did all we could. If I am honest, things fell down in other areas - not for the blog though.....
2. We are off !! We are so in need of a break and have plumped for a hotel in Ooty called 'The Gem'. We (well mainly I) have really struggled with the concept of spending money on a hotel for ourselves as every penny is so precious out here but we just feel our need to switch off for 5 minutes overrides other factors at the moment. I hope so anyway.....We have had some wise counsel from friends who have said 'do it!!'. We have got 3 nights for the price of 2 for far less than we would have paid back home. 
It's a nice hotel in the hill stations near Avalanche (where the jungle camp was) and we hope to be able to get into Avalanche again for some fun with the kids if the rain holds off. Check the views out the swimming pool and bedroom windows in the pics.More news on that another time but we do go Saturday night (9.30pm) for a night coach to Ooty so don't expect to hear too much from us for a few days.
