Saturday, November 10, 2007

It was another day in Surreal and beautiful Mumbai

Yesterday! We started out really early so we could see the flower market along the streets! Got some great (if shaky) video! I think our 'home movies' will be awsome, but not good if you get vertigo!!! LOL Could induce sea sickness on more than a couple of shots walking or on the boat to elephanta! We kept it a slower day as the last 'blister pop count' was 10. (yeah....well...........) Amin let us walk the 'tout gauntlet' and read the paper while we went up and up and up (calves still kinda sore) to get up the mountain. Luckily the whole way is tarped. Unluckily it's not just for our comfort but to shade the boths that go ALL the way to the top! I can see why he's bored silly with the whole experience up there but I'm glad we've seen it once. Doug watched a monkey rip off some guy's water bottle! The are agressive little critters! The caves were awsome and I know there are more if you're brave enough to hit the other trail around the other side, but my feet and our time limit said go back down. Past the wares AGAIN. Back by boat to the gates' of India and then off to an awsome lunch at Leopolds were WE actually gave some advice to a newbie! LOL Amin says to him, "We can tell it's your first day by your 'blessings'" One of the street gimmiks is to put tikka on you, a rakie on your wrist, give you prassad (God only knows where it's been, wouldn't put that in MY mouth thank you) then they hit you up for $$$. Looks like the poor chap got tagged at least twice. So we all three gave him some help and we fed him from our meal and then it was off to FabIndia for a bit of shopping before going to see OM SHANTI OM. Which even Doug loved! It was such a fun movie that I can't wait to buy it! We then went driving for an hour all over Mumbai to see the fireworks! We got some vids, and alot of motion sickness inducing vids but we'll be cutting it down eventually when we get home. We are just chilling this morning, nice late afternoon snack outside the hotel and we didn't even get hit by traffic on the way to the cyber cafe! In the room for 2 hours it's 350 rupees, here it's 50! Worth the walk! Well we are off to chill before catching the plane to Delhi tomorrow. It feels like we just got here, or we've been here forever. Can't quite decide which! The heat is killer, but the life, people, scenes, experiences...well......we are still speachless. Love you all!!!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

so glad to hear you love it! but it sounds like you need more time there! perhaps your feet don't agree?
sabrina~