Monday.

David and Emily had to go to work, so we said our goodbyes and called a taxi, that never showed up. We managed to flag an auto driver and made our way to the bus station, had an awful jelly bun thing and found the bus to Chennai. We got on early so we got window seats, which is good because for the 4 hour journey there is no AC, just windows. And we had a nice fiasco with our luggage because there is no place to put it and the ticket collector wouldn’t let us buy an extra seat for our bags. Long story short we made it to Chennai around 1pm and both of us had sun burn. From having our elbows resting on the windowsill. Can you imagine that?!

We got to the hotel after only little confusion. We are really getting this whole travel things down pat. We booked te hotel about 3 weeks ago. It was the only thing with above a 30% rating online. It cost more than we wanted to pay, but we needed proper accommodations. The first day there we walked around a bit, got our phone recharged (we ran out of minutes) and ate some lunch from a street vendor. We each got a few deep fried somethings. One might have been fish, another onion, another a piece of cheese, another a rice potato mixtures and then one of deep fried bread. We had 2 servings of this and I got chai. It cost us about 3 dollars total. Incredible India. We had a low key night. Just chillin out watch TV, and I caught up on my blogs, sorta. We sent our a few pieces of dirty clothes down to the hotel laundry to be clean. We knew we were going to be charged heavily, but nothing was clean, and half the stuff was wet and growing aesthetically displeasing matter and producing foul odors that stung the nostril.

We really were not that hungry, so we decided to go to the Chinese resraunt next door. It was a nice place and we were certainly under dressed. Oh well. So we thought lets just get soup and apps. Then I saw they had tiger prawns. I love those. So we each ordered a soup. Then we got chicken lollipops and potstickers. OMG so full of flavor and texture. And we also got 1 or 2 entrees to split. Our bill was 2000 Rs or so. So much for not being hungry. It was worth it. And none of it was alcohol, just delectables.