I woke up about 9 this morning, local time, because Peggy said a guy would be by at 10 to make my breakfast. I wanted to make sure I had the shower figured out and was dressed by the time he arrived.
The shower wasn't as bad as I had anticipated, but could be considered a Navy shower. There was no way to keep the shower running the entire time so you had to either only run the shower part when you wanted to wet down or rinse off. Or you could just fill the bucket and use that to wet down or rinse off. I opted for the second. The reason it wasn't as bad as I thougt it would be is because it is warm enough here that you don't get cold standing wet in the shower without warm water flowing on you.
Peggy showed up with da boys (Gopal et al.) and we moved me 2 doors down from her on the 9th floor. Instead of having someone cook breakfast, we opted to do brunch at the Leela Palace which turned out to be an excellent idea. It was beautiful! I have never seen so much food in my life. It was served with sparkling wine. I tried a little bit of a lot of things and enjoyed all of it. They even had live music. It seemed the place to be in Bangalore on a Sunday afternoon. After brunch we toured the Palace grounds.
The shower wasn't as bad as I had anticipated, but could be considered a Navy shower. There was no way to keep the shower running the entire time so you had to either only run the shower part when you wanted to wet down or rinse off. Or you could just fill the bucket and use that to wet down or rinse off. I opted for the second. The reason it wasn't as bad as I thougt it would be is because it is warm enough here that you don't get cold standing wet in the shower without warm water flowing on you.
Peggy showed up with da boys (Gopal et al.) and we moved me 2 doors down from her on the 9th floor. Instead of having someone cook breakfast, we opted to do brunch at the Leela Palace which turned out to be an excellent idea. It was beautiful! I have never seen so much food in my life. It was served with sparkling wine. I tried a little bit of a lot of things and enjoyed all of it. They even had live music. It seemed the place to be in Bangalore on a Sunday afternoon. After brunch we toured the Palace grounds.
Then Ramesh, our driver, took us to Food World to pick up supplies. Peggy had to cover me since I didn't have any Rupees on me yet. We tried to remedy that by hitting the ATM. After 2 unsuccessful tries at 2 different ATMs, I had a good feeling at the one at Citibank when it greeted me by name. It was then back to the apartment for naps and unpacking (for me).
2 comments:
Glad you made it there all right. I got calls from both Dad and Steve that you had made it.
I had to explain to Matthew that "This blog does not allow anonymous comments." did not mean you couldn't post anything stupid. But we'll try to accomodate anyway, even it it is allowed. Also, Matthew says you have to buy him something. Be safe--but buy him something.
Hey KJ,
Greetings from El Paso! We've been thinking about you and your journey. We're at a Starbucks in downtown so we can have internet access. Sounds like your excellent adventure is off to a great start. We'll keep reading and commenting.
B and R
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