March 8th (Continued): Last full day, but a light day…

Quiz Update: Tom has finally named that animal with all the technical info I was looking for...

"Indian Gray Mongoose or Common Grey Mongoose

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Herpestidae
Subfamily: Herpestinae
Genus: Herpestes
Species: H. edwardsii"

Congrats, Tom

Morning was as the day before – it’s nice to have access to a kitchen to use as our own. Will only had to work until around 11:30 am, so after a late lunch of dal, rice and chapati, we walked to town with Will, Maura and the baby to run some errands. We did a little shopping and walked around the school’s campus for a bit (no photography, God forbid we should take pictures of boarding school buildings? - the grounds were nice, though).

We visited some of their friends for a cup of tea – a very sweet English couple who work at the school as well, and had adopted four Indian babies over the last six years, and are still planning to adopt more! Maura felt that the Muirenn couldn’t handle another outing, so Emily and I went back into town for take-out food at the Royal Tibet Restaurant. We ate and retired back to our room relatively early, as we were all very tired, and planned to meet for a few hours before we left the next day.        

Makin' eggs in Will and Maura's kitchen

Some tropical beauty on our route to and from W&M's house

Muirenn on her new blanket