We made it home late on Friday, after the longest day ever! The first thing we did was eat a bunch of caesar salad! (We were warned not...

Ok, it was actually two days, but to us it has felt like one. Yesterday we woke up in Trivandrum and drove to visit a pretty cool palace...

We started off the day by going to a beach, unfortunately the water was too rough to swim, but we waded and got to splash around a bit....

We spent most of the day travelling to Trivandrum, which is where we are staying for the next few days until we fly back to Delhi. This...

Today was a rest day. We mostly stayed in the house we're staying at, but we did go for a walk once the sun came out! We figured out what...

Today was the wedding! The bridesmaids had to get up super early, at 4am. We needed help putting on our sarees (they are complicated!) as...

Today we had a special meal at Priya's grandmother's house for a festival called Onam. The festival started off as a Hindu celebration...

It's been two days since we last had internet. So, as promised, I took some pictures of the resort yesterday morning. It was raining, but...

Today we spent a lot of time shopping for the wedding, getting clothing, jewellery and shoes. Pretty much our whole day was shopping!...

We drove back to Alleppey today for the engagement party. We stopped along the way to visit a temple that was built up around the house...

Well, we found the rain and the jungle! We spent the day driving to Varkala. We made a stop along the way at the Padmanabhaswamy Temple,...

Just a quick update today. Yesterday we were very sad to say goodbye to our driver Harpreet. He drove us to Delhi and we got on a plane...

Today was a long day! We started off by making a quick stop at the Wind Palace (Hawa Mahal), which was just a facade set up so that the...

We started bright and early today and went to visit the Taj Mahal! It was built by Mughal Emperor Shahjahan in 1630 as a tomb for his...

Flying to India was very different compared to my previous trips to Europe. We left Ottawa on Sunday, and three flights later arrived in...

I forgot to write my usual conclusion post about being safe and sound at home,so here it is! After Paris, we made our way back to London...

Technically we're back in London, but I'm going to do a quick post about our two nights in Paris. So on the first night, we went to the...

I'm getting my post done a little early today. We spent the day in Switzerland (this is the first time we've slept in the same place two...

We spent so much of today on the bus! There was a ton of traffic. At the very least, there were some spectacular views along the way, and...

We left Austria really early so we could have the afternoon/evening in Venice. We ended up arriving at our campsite at around three, and...

Our afternoon in Austria was pretty awesome, because we went paragliding! But first, we drove through Austria admiring the mountains....

I don't know what the internet will be like tonight, so I'm doing a quick update with my phone. Yesterday afternoon we arrived in Munich....

Tonight we're staying in a beautiful little town along the Rhine River in Germany. We're not here for long, just the night and leaving...

So we woke up really early yesterday in order to get on the bus and drive to Amsterdam. We took the ferry across the channel and spent...

May 19 Sorry for not writing anything yesterday, and sorry for no pictures. The internet here isn't great so I'm writing this on my phone...

(My European trip was a tour called European Horizons by the touring company Contiki. I went with six friends. It was a fast paced tour,...

May 5 - A New Adventure! So, here I am on a new - but smaller - adventure, to Washington DC. I'm with my roommates from University, Gigi...

So our plane trip went well. It was delayed for about an hour, but we still landed more or less on time. Megan and I couldn't sit next to...

So today we had to leave out apartment. Since our flight is tomorrow, we're spending the night in Rome and we went to visit the Vatican....

June 3 - Day Sixteen - Waiting We accidentally found a layer today and then had to wait pretty much all day while our supervisors tried...

Megan and I went to Rome again to today. We started the day trying to get to the Pantheon but accidentally ended up getting detoured by a...

We went into Rome today, first to the Villa Guilia which is a museum. We weren't allowed to take pictures, but it was all Etruscan stuff...

May 27 - Day Eleven - Brushing Today I worked in a different part of the trench, brushing away dust with a paintbrush. I also discovered...

Today we went to Tivoli. It was a great day but confusing. To get to Tivoli we had to take a train to Rome (Roma Termini, the main train...

The field trip today was great! We went to Ostia, which was the port city of Rome. It was cool because it's pretty much an entire city...

May 20 - Day Six - Sweeping Sweeping dirt off of more dirt is kind of difficult, but that's what I did for most of today! We finished the...

... try to see everything at once. Needless to say, it was a very busy day. We started off by walking past the Colosseum to go into the...

So today we went on a field trip to the nearby city of Tarquinia, which used to be an Etruscan city. On the way there, we quickly stopped...

May 13th - Day One - Washing Today was our first day on site! Unfortunately, I can't actually say anything specific about the site or put...

I'm going to start this post by finishing up what we did yesterday, since I wrote it around noon. The most exciting thing that happened...

So we've arrived in Marina di Cerveteri, which is the town near the site we're digging. We've me our prof and been taken to the places...

We spent most of the day in Orvieto. The first thing we did was go inside the Duomo, but we weren't allowed to take pictures. There...

Most of the day, we spent finishing things up in Florence. I took a better picture of the Duomo for you. We went to visit another art...

So we started off the day early, and after a great breakfast at our hostel we walked down to the Galleria Del'Accadamia, which is an art...

2:00pm (Ontario Time) - So as I type this, Megan and I are sitting in the airport, waiting for our flight. It'll be in two hours. There's...