Monday, June 20, 2011

For the win

 This picture pretty much sums up what it's like to drive a rickshaw.  We went shopping and eating on Saturday and the rickshaw driver wanted me to drive- so I did.  It was very fun and even more fun that I had no idea what he was trying to tell me while I was driving.  His English wasn't the best and I had a bad case of tunnel vision.
Here's him supervising my driving.

He recommended this amazing North Indian food restaurant that had amazing mutton curry.  Here's the gang getting ready to chow down.

The shopping was fun I guess.  It was cool to see some of the amazing craftsmanship and art produced within India.  Apart from the most beautiful jewelry I ever saw, I saw amazing wood and marble work.  Here are a few that I appreciated: 

 This piece (and hundreds of other varieties) are a solid piece of rock.  Within the outer design is another design with figurines carved inside of the sphere.  Some of the more elaborate pieces had figurines inside of figurines inside of figurines, if you know what I mean.  Hopefully looking at the picture explains it because I doubt that did.
 Inside the elephants' backs are more elephants. Bwaaaaah
This table was hand made and had beautiful inlay.
Also, Asaad found a genie lamp.  Pure silver of course.

We also saw a cool apartment/loft:


And inside the mall with the movie theater we went to we saw the creepiest clown ever.  It was like chucky and the devil schemed up away to make people feel uncomfortable.  Look in the picture to see if you can find him:

Yeah, he's the three and a half foot tall creature staring at the camera, near all the little kids.  Glad I never had to grow up with those nightmares.

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