Don't Be...........

to those of you who might have been a teeny bit jealous of all the thailand fun...rest assured k and i are now in one of the hell realms here in india! let's just say yesterday--our first full day here, was a little bit rough. actually, by the time we were waiting at the howrah train station outside of calcutta for hours, where an incessant voice made announcements, a man with lopped off legs crawled across the floor, the man next to me frothed at the mouth, and there was a woman with elephantitis in one arm--i was a bit numb inside. after a 6 hr train ride we arrived in gaya around midnight--resting our weary heads inone of the vilest rooms imagineable--for $20! the toilet was full to the brim of brown sludge...it was sweet. we had to wait to come to bodhgaya this morning because of the bandits that lie in wait at night. seriously. but phew! here we are in bodghaya and we have a clean and quiet room in the taiwanese temple and today we've met and received blessings from jokhang tulku, yangtang tulku, ralo rinpoche and khenpo guru...so it's not all bad...wish us luck!