Kerala houseboat

We drove from one extreme to the other today. From the cool misty mountains to the hot humid waterways of Kerala's backwaters. There are hundreds of rivers and man-made canals alongside rice paddies (or fields). We stayed on a houseboat - these are a popular holiday attraction for international and Indian tourists. The boats originally carried rice along the canals.

We watched a beautiful sunset over the flooded rice paddies. The sky changed from blue to grey to orange to mango to red before it got too dark to read. Then the bugs came... We could hear them swarming away from the boat luckily they were not biting insects! 

I'm ready a book about a girl who is not allowed to go to school just because she is a girl. It's very interesting and I'm learning lots about different parts of the world. I think it's helping my reading stamina. 

What are you reading these holidays? If u find a good book write it down and we can have a Book Sale when we get back to school.