Final Day of our Sri Lanka Vacation

Well, unfortunately it finally came to our last day in paradise. We packed up our luggage and headed down to the buffet breakfast. We got a table by the pool, ate while admiring the incredible view, and even watched a local climb up the palms with nothing but a rope and bare feet to maintain the palms.

Our driver was a tad bit late picking us up. Turns out he went home to his wife in Colombo for the night. He probably missed her a lot during our 9 day adventure. He told us that he has two older children, one of which is getting married in the summer. Anyway, our last day consisted of our last visit of some temples on our way to Columbo. One of the temples was more like a museum as they had quite the collection of Sri Lanka artifacts. They even kept an elephant in the back of the building. Our driver continued along for more sightseeing that consisted of government buildings and such. We stopped for a lunch at a Chinese restaurant. Our tour company called and said for us to drop by the office to meet them and they had a gift to give us. We sat down with them for about an hour. They wanted to know how we liked our tour of the country. They made us tea and gave us a box of tea and cookies to take home. Before saying goodbye, they took a group photo of all of us in front of their sign. Then our driver dropped us off at the airport. We thanked him for showing us around and countless hours of safely driving us to different places. We checked into the airport and waited for our flight. We had a connection in Dubai and then we arrived home in Bahrain around 3 a.m.

Overall, it was an awesome adventure, a beautiful country to visit, the most friendliest people we have ever met, and we were so blessed to experience all of it.