Ok so we have now moved on from Goa but thought we would do a couple of posts to catch up. :)

After Christmas we visited a Children's charity for their Christmas party which was briliant! The local slum children are taken in every day by the charity to teach them English and prepare them for school. If they weren't here to help these children then they would be sent out begging all day and punished when they didn't bring home enough money. It's a great cause and the children were so well behaved and sweet. They all sang Christmas songs and did dances and it was a really lovely experience. We have added some photos of the party, which include a really scary Father Christmas!!

Between Christmas and New Year the MiniSun 12H campaign launched, after lots of hard work all round at the Pearson camp (http://igg.me/at/minisun12h). It seems to be going well and Brett and Stephen made their film debuts, have a look at the link for Brett having been 'tangoed'. Brett and I spent many an afternoon trying to get the videos done. What with inquisitive Indians and Westerner's asking every 5 minutes what we were up to and baking ion the sun we finally managed to get the footage. Although the blooper reel is brilliant we may need to add some bleeps!

New Year was relatively quiet and we saw in 2014 with a few rum and cokes on the beach and watched the fantastic fireworks all along the Arambol stretch. Each restaurant trying to out-do each other meant there were constant explosions all evening. Sorry mum and Dad, we don't mean to rub it in. For those of you who don't know Paris decided not to have any fireworks this year - classic Harrison holiday. :)

Stace also did a cookery class in Arambol and now thinks of herself as a culinary genius! She whipped up Malai Kofta, Okra Masala, Aubergine Masala and cheese garlic naan. Yummy!! I'll send you the recipes Lou.

After one month in Arambol we decided we had eventually had enough of beach life and set off to pastures new. In an odd twist of fate Stace's friend Jen (who she hasn't seen for 5 years and met in Africa) was in India. Even more stangely she had planned to be in exactly the same place at the same time as us. So we agreed to meet in Hampi and off we went......