On the beach

The stories coming out of Asia are just unbelievable. The horror, the stories of survival, the split decisions that meant life or death. Two days into it, I learned that 2 of my cousins happened to be in Sri Lanka when the waves hit. I have no freaking clue why they were there other than that not much is surprising in my family.

They are staying at an Elephant Reserve, and were headed down to the beach when the waves came, fortunatley they were running 30 minutes late. They've sent out a few emails and talked about how eriely quiet everyone was in the hours afterward. People were milling about trying to find their belongings and their families in the water.