Saturday morning! After breakfast, Jo and I played card games and talked until the rest of the city properly woke up around 10:30. Nani, Joanna and I then headed to Gandhi Bazaar, a large open-air market in Bangalore, to get our kurtas and churidars tailored.
The bazaar is one of my favourite places in Bangalore, although it is crowded.
Flower and fruit stalls, women standing behind mounds of brightly coloured vegetables in baskets, lots of energy...and also quite hot!
The tailor was closed for the 'holiday' (India playing in the finals of the Cricket World Cup) so we bought fruit and wandered before heading home. Just in time, as it started to rain quite heavily.
Saturday's events weren't actually bizarre but the titular pun was too good to miss out on...
Jo and I finally unpacked! We had a ton of fun setting up the room and it looks all homey and great now. Finally, I joined Nani to watch the match. It was so exciting, but literally went on from 3 to about 11 pm so I mentally checked out for a while. But India won!! And the fireworks outside sounded like machine gun fire. People are still going crazy at 10:30 AM the next day and I have a feeling it will be like this all weekend.
I woke up to banging instruments, lots of singing and cheering as people paraded down the street in joy. I'm excited for the day to begin !
The bazaar is one of my favourite places in Bangalore, although it is crowded.
Flower and fruit stalls, women standing behind mounds of brightly coloured vegetables in baskets, lots of energy...and also quite hot!
The tailor was closed for the 'holiday' (India playing in the finals of the Cricket World Cup) so we bought fruit and wandered before heading home. Just in time, as it started to rain quite heavily.
Saturday's events weren't actually bizarre but the titular pun was too good to miss out on...
Jo and I finally unpacked! We had a ton of fun setting up the room and it looks all homey and great now. Finally, I joined Nani to watch the match. It was so exciting, but literally went on from 3 to about 11 pm so I mentally checked out for a while. But India won!! And the fireworks outside sounded like machine gun fire. People are still going crazy at 10:30 AM the next day and I have a feeling it will be like this all weekend.
I woke up to banging instruments, lots of singing and cheering as people paraded down the street in joy. I'm excited for the day to begin !
We won! when india wins all gods from all religions have to smile at the same time. When they all decide to smile together things go right for the composite Thimbu that is India.... There you go... It must have been a nice camaraderie up there and some early Diwali, Eid, Christmas, Hannukah afterwards... Jai ho!
ReplyDeletei am also very happy papa!!!! now all of the players are getting 7 crore each and land and cars...what a life
ReplyDeleteIt is far more financially rewarding to be in entertainment... that is what the world wants... What the world needs.... hmmm.... the Bills will take care of them...
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