Monday morning, bright and early, we joined 2 co-workers, Bita and Abir, on the next leg of our journey, to some of the northern districts, to visit projects there.
It was a long but lovely drive. The rice fields are being harvested, and we drove past lots of corn fields, banana groves, sugar cane fields and large vegetable plots. The roads were often lined with trees, the rich green interspersed with bright blossoms of orange, red, yellow and purple. It was a feast for the eyes!
We had lunch at this little family - run restaurant or hotel as it is called here. As we were getting out of the van, the boys wondered if it had a swimming pool. We quickly explained that a hotel here is not the same as a hotel in the states! We enjoyed a lunch of rice and curry, eaten Bengali style, with our fingers.
The boys were enamored by the pump in the rear courtyard where we washed our hands and they fought to do the pumping. I think they could have easily been persuaded to live in such a place.
Riley became good friends with Abir on the trip, though he struggled to say his name and kept calling him "Ablu". Our driver, Shumon, is on the right and safely took us over many kilometers!
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