A lazy day
Today was just totally laid back. We had it off and I just hung out in my room until about 1:15pm. I watched some movies, Skyped with my family and then ate lunch. I spoke with Anthony, Dave M and Kan and they were feeling lazy too.
After lunch Kan and I headed into town. We did some gift shopping. I got some cool stuff…a bit pricey but what the heck. We then went to the area of town called T Nagar. It’s where a lot of the jewelry and silk shops are. I checked out some gold anklets and was shocked by the price…..over Rs50,000 or $1000! Way out of my price range. It ’s strange to see those kind of prices here when there’s so much poverty. In the silk shops there were fancy, embroidered silk fabrics for wedding saris that were over Rs100,000 (1 lakh) or $2000. I think it was for the fabric only and the cost of having the sari made would be a separate cost. Amazing stuff, though!
I stopped at a little shop on the way back to the hotel and bought 6 bottles of soda, a package of biscuits (cookies) and and ice cream. I want to have something in the mini bar other than the hotel’s expensive stuff. I paid Rs164 for all that.That’s less than two of the cans of soda from the mini bar!