I should probably be packing right now.

My flight to the US leaves in less than 24 hours. And I haven't started packing (besides what I already dropped off at Sareeta's place over two weeks ago for summer storage).

I spent my last 16 days in Sri Lanka. (Jhanvi, I know you want pictures, but I just don't have time right now, with the whole leaving Delhi thing.) Some highlights:

• playing with freshly-hatched baby sea turtles (aged 1 to 3 days old), including one albino sea turtle in Kosgoda
  
• learning about the traditional medicine shaman-type man at the mask museum in Ambalangoda
  
• spotting crocodiles, monkeys, elephants, and various types of birds in Yala National Park
• hiking through tea plantations up to Little Adam's Peak near Ella
• Vesak perahera (Vesak is the day that Buddha was born, achieved enlightenment, and died, and a perahera is a procession, often and in this case with caparisoned elephants) in Badulla
• seeing the Buddha's tooth relic during Vesak puja at the Dalada Maligawa temple in Kandy
  
• watching the elephants at Pinnewala Elephant Orphanage (though I question the treatment of elephants in this facility), including petting a baby elephant
• um, NOT the "Ancient Cities" -- a bit boring, actually
• scuba diving off Nilaveli
• exploring the wartorn Tamil region around Trincomalee
• eating delicious Sri Lankan curries everywhere

Ok, now to pack...