Shoes are important. Yesterday, we bolted out of our hotel at 5 AM to catch a 5:45 AM train to Anuradhapura. We had both brought sneakers and flip-flops -- or so we thought. The three day journey involves climbing a lot of stairs and a giant rock; as well as visiting many archeological sites with temples where you need to remove your shoes to visit.
Although we needed those two pairs, at one point yesterday, Christine was down to only one shoe. Somehow she either lost or had never packed one of her sneakers.
She was managing just fine with her sandals until she had to use the ladies room at a temple. They make you remove your shoes. While she was in the ladies room, her sandals were stolen.
Fortunately, the person who took them was blatant enough to have put them on and was walking in them A man who learned of our predicament noticed the shoes on that woman's feet and got them back for Christine.