Making purchases:
Today, I finally begun making purchases and putting in my orders for my jewelry! Over the last few days, I had a few false starts and I had trouble finding the style and type of quality jewelry I am looking for. But today--BINGO! I spent 7 hours in a shop, picking through sterling pieces with faceted gems and designing my own pieces. I only designed a small amount of pieces, and while I am really excited about them, I think for now, I'll stick to buying ready made pieces because designing my own is extremely time consuming. So I think I have enough faceted pieces now. Tommorrow, I'll shop for pure silver pieces without stones :)
A wedding:
Last night, against the never-ending soundtrack of honking horns, I also heard a marching band going down the street in front of my hotel. I ran downstairs to see what was going on and the first thing I saw was a white horse all decorated in a regal looking mirrored ensemble...it had decorations all over its face and beads hanging from it. And then there was a group of people, maybe 50 people dressed in their finest...the women looked like royalty wearing the brightest, most jewel-encrusted saris I have seen yet. People were setting off fireworks in the street...not little fircrackers, but 4th of July style fireworks were shattering my ears, jolting my whole body, and raining down glitter in the night sky. "What is this?" I asked someone. "A wedding!!" was the reply. The groom was dressed in a fancy white outfit with a white turban and when he got on that fancy horse, the people in the crowd cheered very loudly. Then women started going up to him and waving money around his head. The band was still playing loud and people were feeding something yummy to the horse. I couldn't tell who the bride was because there were about 10 equally stunning women. This celebration went on for about 1/2 hour, and the party walked on to another block....
