Thursday 15th January 2015
I woke up this morning after a weird night’s sleep dreaming
about honing around in the dark on rickshaws, pulled myself out of bed and
jumped at the breakfast buffet. I continued eating long after I was stuffed and
then walked out with my hands full of pastries and muffins to really get my money’s
worth.
We had a slow morning with an explore of the hotel grounds
and a massive chill out in our room. Maezee and I spent a good wee while in hysterics
at our super charged bidet before heading to town to try and get train tickets
to Jaipur. The whole expedition took ages longer than planned as we had to get
six foreign quota tickets and you can only get four at a tie so we had to leave
and come back and there was only one guy serving whilst the rest of the staff
stood in plain view talking behind the glass. Then ‘Rachel decided she wanted
to get the train as well but finally it was all sorted.
Not wanting to have to sell a kidney in order to buy dinner
we opted to grab a bunch of samosas and snacks in town then got a shaw back to
the hotel. Maezee and I hit up the gym and I ran so fast I short circuited a
treadmill and Maezee snapped a chunk off the cross trainer obviously we are
pros at this gym lark.
After that we showered and chilled out some more then
wrapped up super warm and walked around the corner to the boys hotel where
everyone was a tad subdued but at least Blake had some great music on his iPod
to keep us all entertained and we got a bit crazy doing magic tricks!
About 9pm we headed home got into our robes and watched
parks and rec on the massive TV whilst stuffing our faces with chocolate.
Friday 16th January 2015
This morning I got up early and hit up the gym keeping well
away from any cardio machines but left after about 30minutes when a bunch of
men arrived clearly intending to use the gym but wouldn’t come in while I was
there.
The breakfast buffet didn’t know what hit it when we got
there. Maezee was dressed as an air hostess and like yesterday we ate all the
food before waddling back to our room. We requested a late check out and were
able to stay until 2pm so we made the most of the super quick internet and
watched Parks and Rec while munging out on the massive bed then took a million years packing up all our
crap that was strewn all over the room.
Once we were packed up we checked out and wrote an essay as
the leaving survey but did give props to the few members of staff who
brightened our days. We tried to get them to drive us across to the boy’s hotel
in the gold golf carts but they were having none of it and so we walked.
Since by this stage it was already close to 3pm we decided
to head to the train station with all our gear and then send out a party of
troops to gather provisions for the journey. We got a ton of samosas, crisps
and chocolate and headed back to the platform where the train was waiting and
we could board.
We left about 5mins late which wasn’t too bad for Indian
trains! The journey was good fun, most of us were in the same carriage and we
had another team next door so whiled away the time sharing tales from the road.
When we did hit the hay it was freezing so none of us got a good sleep.
Saturday 17th January 2015
Happy Birthday Sian!!!
We arrived into Jaipur late at 5.30am and said our goodbyes
to Rachel who was staying on the train through to Delhi and flying back home to
London. We didn’t have much of a plan so stopped for a chai and then walked
aimlessly around for over an hour seemingly for no reason.
Eventually we jumped in a couple of rickshaws and found a
guesthouse. We checked in and headed to the roof for some food. Then got
showered and ready for the day sorted out our laundry and headed off to
explore. Maezee and I wandered about for a bit I got head-butted in the fanny
by a goat and hit by two motorbikes (one clipped my elbow the other reversed
into me)
At about 1pm we met Verity (form the ashram) who lives in
the city and we went and had lunch at some famous restaurant the food was
pretty tasty and set us up for an afternoon of chilling and chatting. First up
we headed to the lake and sat on the bank. (Maezee had a nap) then we got
another rickshaw up past the fort where there is another lake and no tourists
whatsoever. It was just us and an Indian couple. We sat and watched the sun mostly set then
headed down before it got too dark to see the path.
We got an auto back to the hotel where we met up with all
the boys who had the great idea of heading to the cinema. We went and got tickets
and then had a massive thali for dinner across the road. The tickets said
9.30pm and so did the board but when we got there at 9.25pm the movie had
already started. We went to see Alone which is a Bollywood horror movie it was
great it had thrills, romance, comedy, singing and dancing and exorcist type
body contortions. But was super long and by intermission we were already
fading.
By the time it finished three hours later we were pooped and
headed back to the hotel to sleep.
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