Tolentreasures

  Food plays a big part in travel for me.  I love to find local foods to any area.  The pizza above, while it was Domino’s,  certainly had an Indian twist with the chicken on top.  This little boy seemed to enjoy it!          The vegetable, picked from the tree could not have been any fresher!  I don’t remember what it was called.        And momos!  Not enough good can be said about these little dumplings!  These were from a restaurant on our return from Darjeeling.   Then we made our own!  And these eggrolls filled with vegetables, including beets, were amazing.          Chili Chicken from the restaurant was great,  but then Mridula made her version and it was heavenly!  I don’t have any pics of hers, but it was one of the BEST things I ate.  It was similar to General Tso’s Chicken,  but wit...

I often think of Lydia in the Bible.   I think of her working to provide for God’s church,  of her entrepreneurial spirit.  How God used her and I am sure other women’s Spirits, gifts and experiences to enrich  His church.   I don’t know the stories of all these women,  but I could easily see their work ethic.  I am sure many of them were providing for their families and I know that some of them were working  to care for God’s people.  The first one is of women running a stand at Darjeeling.  Food for the tourists.                A teacher at the school that I visited who brought her baby to work with her every day. Here she was cooling her down and washing her up on break time  between classes.      Nepali women at the Himalayan Zoological Park selling corn snacks. A young girl running her own tea stand in the tea fields ...