The cool theatre turned out to be less than exciting since we had already seen the movie they were playing. Oh well! We had plenty of other things to do aside from sitting in a theatre so we were off on our way again!
We took a rickshaw to a textile place that a really amazing woman named Laura from Alaska (awesome name, eh?) told us about. She imports beads to her shop in Alaska and gets to go on work trips to Africa and Southeast Asia! Nice little work trips… I really need to figure that type of work out! (I have already been checking out all the fixtures here! Maybe I can help?)
The shop had beautiful fabrics, but I have gotten a little tired of shopping at this point. After Stacy picked out some amazing blankets we headed out into the Pink City again. Everyone kept offering us a ride in a rickshaw, but we wanted to walk. Of course that meant countless people offering us every single saree, textile, jewelery, shoe, etc and us just passing them by. It’s funny because sometimes people will ask, “why?” Cause we don’t want it maybe? It’s still fantastic to see the city this way!
We went into a miniature painting shop and I found the last few things I have been looking for! Rajasthan singer, Sheera Meeshra, and some Hindi fighting films! Oh yeah! We got some street food and met a man who was trying to write a letter to a woman he met from England. With our yummy fried street food in hand I helped him write the letter and he offered to give us something nice from his jewelry shop. We did get water and soda, but the rest was just a show of all the jewels that he had. We were done though… We said we had to go and he decided he wanted to show us the largest temple in Jaipur. (Meanwhile he hugged me from behind and told me he was my friend… Creepy! Oh well at least I had Stacy and Jess if I needed to attack!)
The temple was beautiful and dedicated to Buddha. Stacy got amazing photos as we wandered home! She has such a good eye for a great shot. We ate dinner on the rooftop again and fell asleep pretty early.
This morning we woke at 5:30 and went to a free yoga lesson in the park with our new friend, Laura! It was such a nice way to start our day. It was all locals and then us… Then we all had breakfast together. The rest of the day we spent on one of the local roads just sort of waiting out our time until the final train back to Delhi. It’s only a 5 hour trip, but we don’t leave until 5:45 so we will arrive in Delhi around 11 and make our way to the hotel. Good thing we know where everything is at this point.
We leave for Chicago tomorrow night! I can’t even believe it’s almost been 2 whole weeks already! See you all soon!
