More Wedding Pictures

Here is Emily and Amy posing with 4 of the girls at the wedding. They loved talking to them and hung around them all night.

Here is the crew that went to the wedding: Jagannath, Cole, Amanda, Emily, Amy, Nathan, and Trevor. We all went to a fabric store before the wedding and bought our clothes. They guys paid around $60 for our outfits and the girls paid around $150 for their outfits.

Even though this picture is blurry, it is still pretty cool to see Sunny riding in on a white horse to get married.

Here is a picture of the guys. This picture is blurry as well. I refused to let them put a red dot on my head.

Amanda, Emily, and Amy smiling for the picture!

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Here is a picture of the houseboat we went on off the west coast of India. The locals build these floating homes themselves and this industry provides them with most of their income.

This deer was one of the many animals we saw on our Indian safari ride.

This monkey is sitting like a human and looks pretty relaxed!

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Here is me posing in front of a palace "floating" on water in northern India.

Jagannath, Trevor, Emily, and Cole pose for a picture. I am taking it!

A group of local fisherman fish the "backwaters" of Kerala for fish. We are on a party boat and are passing them while they work hard. Their skin is so dark you would almost confuse these Indians for Africans.

A cool geologic feature we saw in Bali, Indonesia.

I am getting ready for them to pitch the ball to me in cricket. I kind of have a weird stance.

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Here is a shot of the entrance to the Taj Mahal. Outside the walls of the Taj Mahal are serveral other mausoleums, including those of Sha Jahan's other wives, and a larger tomb for Mumtaz's favorite servant.

Jagannath and I are posing inf front of a famous Hindu temple off the coast of Bali. The temple is up on a rock feature that is hard to get to. Only priests and followers of the Hindu faith are allowed to ascend into the temple. Also, below the temple is a spring of fresh water that forms a pond. This is unusual since we right next to a salty ocean. Therefore, the freshwater pond is supposed to be a miracle. However, I did see a pump and freshwater being pumped into the pond!...hmmmm

Here is a better shot of the temple.

One last picture of the Sunny and his wife.

Here is me in my Indian garb. I wore a hat, a black shirt/blouse, white pants, and curly pointed shoes.

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A couple of monkeys scrounging around for some food. I am mean...I didn't give them any.

Trevor, Jag, Cole, Emily, and I are eating on the floor at a theme park in southern India. The cups you see on the table are made of clay and are made on a potter's wheel. Cups are cheaper for the restaurant to make then to buy them. Also, our plates were made out of pressed leaves.

Here are a couple of snakes that you had to pay to take a picture with in Bali. I just took a picture of it without me in the pictures so I wouldn't have to pay for it.

Another picture of Sunny, his wife, and their family. This is an arranged marriage and both Sunny and his wife just met each other. Their parents got together and arranged the marriage. Usually a dowry is required from the female's side. They rented out one of the nice buildings in Chennai for this wedding.

Jag an I have a flexing competition. I win!

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Here I am posing with with our taxi driver in Bali. We are visiting a temple on the coast.

Nick, Jessica, Cole, me, Emily, Dika, and Jag all pose for a picture on stage next to a Hindu temple.

We stopped to take a picture of a war monument in New Delhi. It looks similar to one in France. Since Delhi is the capital of India, we also toured some of the government buildings in the city which are about 1000 meters from this statue.

Yes...here it is-The Taj Mahal. It is a burial monument of the wife of Shah Jahan, an emperor during the Mughal empire. His wife, Mumtaz Mahal, died during the birth of their 14th child, Gauhara Begum. In her dying breath, Mumtaz Mahal urged Shah Jahan to build a mausoleum for her, more beautiful than any the world had seen before. Construction started in 1632, one year after her death, and finished in 1653. Water is supposed to be in the fountain runway behind me but they were "cleaning" it at the moment this picture was taken.

Coconuts don't taste as good as they look. I drank about half of it then threw the rest away.

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Here is a picture of Sunny (groom) and his wife with their family at the wedding we attended in Chennai, India. They wedding lasted about 2 days (the celebration last all week), and they stood for about 5 hours each day taking pictures. I will never complain about how long pictures take in American weddings ever again!

A cool shot of how far the tea plantation extends up in the hills of southern India. We are in the state of Kerala, on the south-east tip of India. It is amazing that these tea plants can grow well on vertical slopes like they do. I would hate to be the person climbing these hills to harvest the tea.

A picture of Cole, Emily, Jessica, Jagannath, me, and Diak in front of our hotel in Bali, Indonesia. Dika took us through a tour of his home in Jakarta, Indonesia. It was a huge 3 story house situated on a corner lot in the city. His dad started a construction company, and now he and his dad sell currency for a living.

Jagannath and I are lifting up a 150 pound turtle in a turtle park off the coast of Bali, Indonesia.

I bought a hat to keep the sun off my face while being a tourist in Bali.

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Here is me taking a swing while batting in cricket. The three "stumps" on the wall behind me is the wicket. (My swing kind of looks like my golf swing!)

Me and trevor with our post-season trophies for being selected on the All-Tournament team.

(I am glad I made it along with some other high-school kids!)

Here is us actually rafting in Bali with a waterfall pouring down on top of us.

In Bali, you take off parasailing from the beach. You start running, a boat guns the throttle, you jump up, and the wind takes you skyward. You also get to do a ground landing on the beach when you return from the sky!

We are racing to see who can make itdown the river the fastest!

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Here is a picture of a tea plantation up in the hills of southern India. They use workers to pick the leaves, then take it to the factory and crush the leaves.

Here is a picture with me (orange shorts) with the youth group after we have covered ourselves in mud from the Dead Sea on the Jordan/Israel border.

Here is me with the crew taking a picture in front of a waterfall in Bali, Indonesia. We are in the middle of a rafting trip, and our guide pulled over to the side of the river and we got out of the boat to take a picture of the falls.

Here are three monkeys sitting on a wall of rocks in northern India.

I am talking to some of Jagannath's friends at the reception of the Indian wedding we went to.

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Some Indian friends of Jagannath are teaching us how to play cricket. Cole is up to bat and I am out in the field (not in this picture).

Here I am doing some manual labor in Amman, Jordan. We took 18 kids from the youth group and worked with missionaries from the Southern Baptist Convention. In this picture I am cleaning up a bunch of olives that have fallen onto the ground at a local house in Amman.

Here is Trevor, Cole, Emily, and myself all on one elephant. We were packed in pretty tight and it was quite uncomfortable, but it was still fun!

A picture of me, Nick, Jessica, Emily, Cole, and Jagannath at our hotel/pool in Bali, Indonesia. We could stay at this hotel for $10 a night and get a free breakfast. We met a lot of Australians.

Here is some Hindu temple in Bali. There are a lot of burnt offerings (food and incense) being burned around this monument.

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Here is a picture of an elephant we rode into the jungle. This elephant has some nice ivory tusks. He also has 5 legs...o wait...one of those isn't a leg!

Here is a picture of Cole and myself in a field of tea. They take the tea, harvest it, grind it up, and then sell it. They hire cheap labor to come harvest the field, and have dogs patroling the tea fields at night to make sure people don't come steal tea leaves.

Here is an image of me swimming underneath a glass-bottomed boat. This is when we went snorkeling in Bali, Indonesia.

Dika (one of Jag's friends from college) and I are on the coast of Indonesia where we bought some Indiana Jones hats.

Yup...that is a snake...and he is curled around me!