N'er to return again...

Day 4

Shower, breakfast, quick email check and off to Jodhpur. A 6 hour ride. I suppose we are a couple hours in at this point. I wonder what is for lunch. Hopefully it is better than the last roadside restaurant Nog picked out. *flashback* On the way to Jaipur we were hungry for lunch and asked Nog to stop somewhere for a "snack," hoping this would translate to "cheap street food." Not so much. We ended up at the most Anglo-sized restaurant yet. It was incredibly touristy with a huge gift shop and trinkets everywhere. And the food was bland and expensive. It was definitely our most expensive meal and our least satisfying. And at that meal, we made a pact: Never again. *flashback*

And it worked! For “snacks” today we stopped at a roadside market and got bananas and samosas and yellow pomegranates. Still, lunch ended up being at another roadside stop. It wasn’t nearly as bad as the last couple but it could be so much better.

12/18

Thought the trip to Jodhpur was long….Try a 4^th class train to Ahmedebad. We are about 5 hours in. Once we get some wifi, I will upload the pictures that I finally added to Picasa. But for now, let me recap Jodhpur and Udaipur.

Day 5

When we finally got to Jodhpur we checked in and went to the Meharajah’s Palace. It has been my favorite stop thus far (granted the Taj Mahal is the Taj Mahal but overlooking that…). There were gorgeous views of the Blue City and we got an audio tour so we actually learned quite a bit about the royal family and the history of Jodhpur (including the meaning of various colors, specifically saffron). The ramparts were awesome at sunset.

When we returned to the hotel, we had our first India music video experience…and pretty much fell in love. All the music videos come from Bollywood movies. It’s great. And we “met” SRK. After about an hour of music TV via MTunes, dinner was ready in the courtyard. And it was prepared by an adorably cute Indian guy (with whom I pretty much fell in love). Dinner was the most delicious thing we had so far (I even did the “happy I’m fed” dance). After we ate we sat around and let the travel delirium (travel-lirium) set in over some laughs. And by the time we went back in to call it a night, I was refreshed. Beautiful Jodhpur, delicious dinner, good laughs and cute boy. I’m a simple girl. Lol.