Day 101 - This hardly feels like the end of another week already!
Yesterday, when the sisters went to town, they left a USB key with their vaccine records in the form of a PDF. In order to travel, they had to have their ordinary vaccine cards verified at the Ministry of Health. The resulting document, among others, will allow them overseas travel to Dubai.
This morning, Jay picked a banana blossom as they are used in Sri Lankan cooking, especially with dried fish. That is what the photo above shows.
Today, we are bracing for more electrical power cuts. This is a middle-income country, but due to politics and poor planning, the country has run out of dollars necessary to buy diesel and other petroleum. As it's the dry season, the reservoirs cannot supply enough power for modern life in Sri Lanka. They burn oil to make up for the shortage at this time of year. Without the cash necessary to purchase oil, the electrical department has no other choice than rolling blackouts. They use the term, power shedding but a rose is a rose.