On Boxing Day, (Sunday), I woke up to the news that a Tsunami had hit the shores of S.E Asia caused by an earthquake near Indonesia...
... now usually I would have felt bad and then carried on with my day, but this time the news was felt closer to home - my cousins were on holiday in Sri Lanka - which was one of the worst hit places.
So the morning was spent trying to find out fromt he rest of our family exactly which part of Sri Lanka they were in, which hotel they were at, and whether anyone ad heard from them.
We later found out that one of my cousins had phoned my other cousin in the UK to say they were fine.
Two of my cousins had been in their hotel room when the Tsunami hit - water came rushing in quickly and they managed to smash open a window and swim out - lucky they did so or they would have drowned. Whent hey escaped they saw devastation everywhere, people injured and dying, and some of their belongings were washed away.
They were the lucky ones and stayed the night in Columbo abd managed to get a flight home and returned on Tuesday morning - two of my cousins were hurt in the legs so they needed a wheelchair at the airport .
My uncle and aunt got a surprise tho - my cousins booked another holiday for them - they are going to Eygpt today - I guess they felt bad that their parents only get Christmas off since they own health food stores and so a busy most of the year.
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