Some more India

oh me oh my im such a slacker. i know. haha We left Mauritius last night. I still must catch up on India.

 

Awww ok, where did I leave off?

I believe I stopped writing after I described the awkward arguements with Thomas on the beaches of Alleppey. Alright.. So we headed back to the hostel. We all laid on our beds (Jay, Tuck, and I) and we just laid there.. for a good 2 to 3 minutes, before we decided to go eat food. But our power nap was glorious. haha Best 2 minutes of my life. So we jumped in a rickshaw (which by the way are the PERFECT size for a group of 3. Any more than 3, and we are all completely squashed. Any less, and theres tooo much room and the rickshaw flys around everywhere.) We were all sandwiched nicely in this little rickshaw. We wanted to eat dinner at this really fun place that Tuck read about in Lonely Plant.. So the rickshaw guy drove us around for like 20 minutes just looking for this place. Fail. We ended up at this really expensive hotel. I actually dont know if it was that expensive, but it was called the Royal Palace or something. haha I guess I just assumed. Ok so we were the only ones in the restaurant. We got there at like 6ish.. And then I realized that Indians dont eat dinner until like 9 or 10pm. hahah So we had the whole place to ourselves. All the menus were not in english. haha so we pointed at a crazy word and adventured into our platters. The most awkward thing though (well not so much to me, because I was sitting with my back towards them) were the waiters that stood in the corner watching our every move. I really noticed that they do that alot. hahah Almost every restaurant we went to. (Side note= that family restaurant in Chennai was funny because the waiter had 2 sidekicks. haha They stood and breathed down his neck as he took our orders. hahah)

Ok hmm what did I order. I think it was the veggie "meatballs" and they were sooooooooooooooo good. I think they were my favorite thing that I ate in India. I dont actually remember the real name of them.. But they were heaven in some goop. haha Ontop of rice. oh yum. Now im hungry.  haha ok anyway, so we hung out there for a little bit and then decided to go find beer somewhere. The chairs we were sitting in were the loudest chairs ever. Getting out of them was so funny. They screached across the floor and the rest of the room went silent (by this time there were like 4 families eating in the room with us) and they all just stared at us. haha I started crying at that point. . from laughter of course. It was the funniest thing ever. First Jay got up... Screeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaachhhhhh, and then Tuck and I got up at the same time.. Scrreeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaccccccchhhh. haha alright im done talking about that.

So from the restaurant we just walked towards downtown. Hoping to find a bar or something. Nope. no bars. There was this one shop filllled with men all buying bottles and bottles of alcohol. So we stopped in there. haha There was a hugee line of men.. and I was kind of scared to stand on that side of the street, but as soon as the guys working at the liquor store saw me they like waved us inside. It was awesome. haha I didn't go all the way inside, I just pushed the guys towards them. haha We had to stock up on beer for the houseboat we would be on the next day. We walked out of that liquor store with a huge box of beer. haha We got so many laughs walking back to the hostel. Some really nice guy actually walked with us almost all the way back, and was just hanging out with us and talking with me. And then he tried to get us to open a beer and share it all around. haha We were told not to drink on the streets though. So we didn't. haha no worries! Finally made it back to the hostel, put a couple beers in the freezer and hung out with some Germans. They were really funny. There was a guy from Bombay there too,. He was hilarious. He was just soo corny, and then he get all philosophical. haha It was ridiculous. we were up pretty late before konking out.

 

Day 4 - The sleep at the hostel was prettyy... . HOT. haha We had a fan and everything, but I definitely just passed out on top of all my covers. Woke up all sweaty and gross (sorry you probably didnt need to read that).

Houseboat day!! We loaded up on the houseboat at like 11am I think. Met the crew and then took off. When we first got on we were sitting on the top deck (in the amazing hammocks and lounge chairs) and they brought us coconut milk.. in the coconut. haha It was the coolest thing. Except I didn't really like the milk.haha   Cruising around drinking from a coconut was absolutely amazing though. There were so many houseboats. At the beginning we all drove in a little line until we reached the main lake. It was gorgeous though. There were coconut trees lining the river, and then huge rice fields behind those. There were also many small villages along side the river. We made a couple random stops to pick up prawns and ice cream (not together.) And they let us walk around the villages for a little bit. But it was just so nice chilling on the top deck talking with my two amazing friends (Tuck and Jay.) oh at one point we were just hanging out and I decided to go downstairs to ask the chef and captain a couple questions. Soon as I went down there they sat me down in the captain's chair and had me drive the houseboat around. it was so funny.. they were like yelling at me to turn left and turn right.. and I could hardly understand them haha so they just continued yelling at me. And then the chef started braiding my hair. It was super random. So there i was sitting, driving a houseboat while a chef braided my hair and the captain played with my ears/earrings. It was really funny actually. And then they started asking me if I had a boyfriend and if I was looking for one. hahaha And i got a little creeped out so I went back upstairs. hahaha. I told Jay and Tuck that if Im gone for more than 10 minutes next time.. go find me. haha So that was really nice having them watch over me the next couple of hours.

Lunch consisted of Fish (not my favorite), rice, beets(which were actually amazing), and that weird green vine plant thingy that i thought we didnt have in the states but apparently we do. I loved the meal though. It was delicious. Its so fun eating with my hands. ok so lunch was great. we hung out there for a reallllllly long time, just talking and then we relaxed upstairs some more. It was beautiful. After a long while, the captain parked the houseboat and we got to wander around the villages for a bit. So we did that, and then when we came back they all decided to jump in the river. I didn't jump in, but I documented all of it. haha And then we followed a dirt path all the way to this random cement building with plastic chairs inside. We were going to drink some coconut beer. It was too hot inside so we took all the chairs outside. And they brought out a huge white table (at the time I didnt really understand why.) The captain apparently had a couple musician friends who came over to meet us and sing/play some music to us. I didn't expect it at all! So at that point we were maybe 10 people. Everybody drinking coconut beer (which is nasty by the way. I struggled to enjoy it. haha) and the musicians began using the table as a drum, and singing to us. It was absolutely beautiful. They sang us a couple christian songs, and then some Hindu songs. They then asked us to sing to them. HA what a joke. Im a terrible singer. Jay whipped out some Bob Marley though. haha So that was really fun. And then they tried to teach us how to sing. You know how they sing in The Sound of Music.."Doe Rea Me...etc" Well.. they have there own version in India. Im sure they do everywhere. So they taught us how to sing like them. It was really fun. I video taped it. I'll show you later. anyway, that was really fun. I got creeped on by the captain while we were sitting there. haha I think he wanted me to be one of his 5 girlfriends. haha He was silly. Ok anyway, by the time we left, there were 12 bottles of coconut beer on the table, and a full bladder in Lindsay Bogan. haha So we rushed back to the houseboat.

I had completely forgotten about dinner. Which was amazing again. They cooked up some prawns. I tried them, but they werent my favorite either. But everything else was glorious.

After dinner, we just hung out again. I love hanging out late at night. We just talked... about everything. We talked alot about everybody back home though.

oh my gosh, i went to the bathroom at some point, and there was a HUGE cockroach just chillin on the door. I was so scared. haha I couldnt get out of the bathroom until it scurried away. haha

 

ok ok so that was that night/day 4. So great. and perfect.

and now im out of time, so i'll have to write you later about the rest of India, and start Mauritius. And plus I still have to write about China. haha dannngg

 

okay I hope all is well at home! Love you and miss you all!