Day One

Well, we never got to the temple.

We went to the Science Park and played with the machines that still worked. Most were missing a part or three. :(

The Peririyai Science and Technolgoy Center was interesting but amazingly stuck in the 1970's in my opinion. It reminded me of a stripped down, not up to date, broken Fort Discovery. Many of the exhibits were broken or simply removed.There was one exhibit on the heart that had almost a hundred real hearts and other specimines preserved in formaldehyde or something similar. The aquarium inside the Science Center had been emptied of all but 6 fish. :(

The Birla Planetarium was very nice. I enjoyed seeing the stars from a very different perspective than the one I have seen all my life. :) I hated that I missed part of the show because I fell asleep for a while (we were in a cool, dark room). My reason/excuse is I hadn't slept since I landed at 5am. :)

We went to Spencer Plaza which is a shopping mall in the American sense and at the same time it had stores that had an open market stall feel inside the passageways.



I had Thai food at The Noodle House with Hena and Sofie. I had bean rolls which were good (despite being a bit spicy).The best part was desert when the three of us split fried ice creme balls and Darsan (ice creme on top of very sweet, crispy noodles). But we ate them so fast we forgot to take a picture of them.

After a bit of shopping with Sofia, Hena and I had juice drinks from The Fruit Shop. I had the Glenn Thomas Special- kiwi and sweet lemon juice freshly juiced and mixed. It was delicious and managed to get me back on my feet because I was falling alseep on the table as we waited.

Next we tried to visit another friend of Hena's but we missed each other by seconds. Our cab stopped to let her cab out into traffic.
Then there was the failed attempt to get me a phone for while I am here. I must get a photo to give them before I can even get a prepaid phone. And I have been unable to locate calling cards anywhere...

The craziest thing of the day was the traffic. I will try to get a picture of it at some point but I will attempt to describe it.
1- We are on the other side of the road from in the States.
2- Painted symbols or lines on the road are suggestions to be ignored.
3- There is a crazy mix of buses, (tiny) cars, mopeds (called scooters here), bicycles, and motorcycles on the road. The mopeds, bicycles, and motorcycles all weve through traffic with no attention to lane and no signals. The only thing everyone obeys are the traffic signals.
4-Everyone uses their horn more than anything else. I think they could live without a motor but not without a horn. :)

So yeah, day one was interesting. Hena and I did all this in a cab rented for the day- tomorrow we tackle the buses and trains. :)

Did I mention we both fell asleep in the cab. But Hena was mean and took a picture of me. :)