21st Tuesday

We visited Ward museum and the Salisbury zoo and came back to the Dove Pointe and did a presentation for Wicomico RC.
We visited a Worecester Country Public Schools a Vocational Centre which teaches many disciplines like Computer, Carpentry, AC, Pre School etc.
We were given a tour at Assateague. Dinner was at Secrets in the Ocean City.

Pilot Boat Ride and Transfer to Salisbury, Maryland

The Monday the 20th was my last day with Rieley family and both John and Lou Ann came to drop me. We had a look at the Pilot Boat ride Operation in Bay & River Delaware.

The next stop was Salisbury, Maryland.We arrived at the Dove Pointe managed by Don Hackett. He was a recipient of the GSE and we were welcomed by the host families and few Rotarians who were present.

My host for this stay is Maggie & Gunner.

Maggie took me to her factory which makes welding transformers (http://www.arconweld.com/) and introduced to Gunner and all the staff. I also met Dave from Huston who will be with me during my stay at Maggie’s. We had a fine dinning with cavia and baked salmon fish. (of course with rice)

Rehoboth Beach

Saturday and Sunday were had little programmed work except for Shopping and Fellowship. Morning I spent time riding the Horse with both Thomas and John. Lou Ann organised a Barbeque for dinner and few friends were also there.

Sunday Dinner was organised by Bonnie & Hank at their residence.

West Farms & Dog Fishhead Brewery

17th April 2009

We attended Rehoboth Beach SunRise RC Breakfast meeting. They too meet in a lovely Golf club and this is the 3rd golf club we visited.
Bonnie (Bonnieta) picked both me and Ash for our VD. I met Stanley of West Farms. West Farms cultivate about 12,000Acres which includes Corn, Leema beans, Barley, Spinnach etc etc. Their facilities include washing and packing and maintenance for all the combined harvesters and land preparation, seeding and transporting trucks etc.
After lunch we visited the town of Milton where Dog Fishhead Brewery is. Milton reminds some what an old city in a Hollywood movie.

Canoeing
Evening weather was quite a treat and John and I went canoeing. We weren’t lucky to see any Eagles or a type of animal which looks like the Otter. Nevertheless I enjoyed the couple of hours we stayed in the lake. We went to see Deer which were coming quite close but it ran away when we tried to closer. W had a full house for dinner with John. Lou Ann, Thomas, Chris, Mathews, Ian and my self.

Stay at Millsoboro with Rieley's

John and Lou Ann have eleven kids and only 6 remain at home now. All the kids attend home school and study at their own pace. It also helps the smarter ones to attend College at younger age than the rest. This is conducted by Lou Ann her self. The Family Farm has about 90,000Chicken, 3 Horses, Sheep & Cattle. They also grow soya bean, corn etc. There are plenty of dogs. The kids work in the farm and get paid once in two months. Part of their money goes into investment and rest is available for spending.
I had Kebabs with Rice for Dinner and looks that I am here for a treat. We went out for dessert to a down town Restaurant.
The Rieley family was very interested to know more about Sri Lanka and my family and all of them are extremely knowledgeable on many disciplines.

Dover Final day

16th April 2009

It’s our last night with Malcom. My self and AJ hosted them for a dinner at a nearby Mexicon Restaurant.

We visited a Chicken Farm and Amesh people were doing a new construction.

We did a presentation to the Capital City RC at Sheraton Dover. It was well attended and we did it again!

It was time to say bye to Rich, Suchi, Tonda & George. And we left Dover and arrived in Georgetown-Millsboro with Rich and Suchi. There I met John and we left to his Office Edward Jones. Well we talked for couple of hours about the US stocks and Money market. John really enlightened me on these subjects and it sounded that my next Investments can be right here.

Visit to City Hall, Millsboro RC, Maple Dale RC

City Hall where the Mayor of Dover city Mr. Carleton E. Carey is a beautiful building sorounded by lovely flowers. We also met Mr. Deprima-City Manager.

We had our 2nd Presentation at the Millsboro RC, Georgetown. On our way back we visited the John Dickinson Mansion & Plantation.

My self and AJ went to Suchi's and she made us some Indian food and Kerala coffee.

The final presentation for the day was at Maple Dale Country RC.