Ah, this is a brief interlude. Best morning ever. Since I didn't have to go to work the last few days I allowed myself to sleep in. This means not getting up at 7:30 am to stuff my face with white bread and watery oatmeal, and sugar. It's great.
So, I woke up at 9 am and after a day of rest needed to get out and move around. Hardly anybody is out that early in the morning, and its a major holiday, so the streets were almost empty. just the people who live there and maybe 20 cars and 1/4 the ammount of honking.
I just walked down AJC Bose rode farther than I usually do and came accross a cemetary. It was totatlly grown over and the gate was locked, but these sorts of places have caretakers that pretty much live in a hut by the property just waiting to let random people like me in. So he let me in and it was very small, all the paths except for the main one were grown over. It was a Scotttish cemetary. Isn't it interesting how everything takes on a greater significance when in a cemetary? There were all these dogs lying around and they trotted away when I came near them. Spooky dogs, guarding the graves, friends with the ghosts? maybe? Crows hovered around, at least one on each tree, crowing as I walked by. Souls of the dead not ready to move on? I think so!
Anyway, I moved on and kept walking and walking and I turned down a street parallel to one i knew - I wasn't totally lost - and found a place to get Chai. This chai was 4 rupees instead of the usual 1, which at first I was angry about, but it turned out to be the best chai in the city. The perfect amount of spice and sweet, and a generous serving at that. Not too much sugar, mm mm good. For the first time it actually tasted like tea, not just sugar milk. Yummy. Then a little but further down I got a delicious simosa. Now I know what they are so I can get them with confidence, along with the sweet sauce. It was soo spicy. My head was hot and sweaty, but I felt all cleared up and a little more alert afterwards. Delicoius. Then I went a round about way home along Ripon street. There are about 15 ripon streets in the area so its hard to know if you are actually going the right way..I just kept walking knowing I was going sort of the right direction. Eventually I made it to my new favorite ice-cream/sweet shop and got a refreshing ice-cream and some sweets for later. I'm really getting anxious to taste all the local food. As of yet we have been eating the same veggie/potato mush and cadbury chocalates, its time to expand the horizons.
Anyway it was such a great morning I just had to write about it. This afternoon I hope to find which Ghat they dump the idols in and make sure I get there. It should take all day to dump all of them since there are so many, so I am confident we will succeed.
I will leave with a link to one of the videos I took at the dancing ceremony the other night -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwxgGl46sds
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