Yes that's right folks, our relaxing time of fun in the sun in goa has come to an end. Only it wasn't ever that sunny... Goa was a nice week, if not really that eventful. I mentioned in my last blog post that it is currently the off season in Goa, so most of everything that isn't big enough to get traffic from the locals was closed and tarped up (to my surprise I've seen more blue tarps this summer then last summer in alaska's tarp village O.o). Part of the reason for the western hordes not being around at this time is because of the numerous rain showers still happening at this time of the year! While, as an Oregonian, I didn't let this bother me too much, it did hamper our activities a bit. A few of the places we would have voyaged to were either closed for the season, impossible to get to because of rained out roads or just not worth seeing when it was pouring down rain non stop. So in very relaxing fashion we...relaxed! We found a nice coffee shop called cafe coffee day, where we could get a tasty chocolate type cold coffee drink. We spent a bit of time in the pool each day (one of which while it poured buckets for about 30 minutes and almost over flowed the pool!) And then journeyed out to different restaurants in the area every night. On Saturday and Sunday we had the "pleasure" of experiencing the local night life at dinner with come good ol' fashioned karaoke! Sadly this was not the same as the nori bangs in Korea with the personal rooms...this was just the guy in charge of the karaoke singing what ever song that he wished to sing...if I ever hear "hello" by Lionel Richie again it'll be far too soon! (got that one sat and sun ><) dad put it bet saying that it was a classic karaoke song...which is to say a really shitty song :p. Since we were only a 10 minute walk to either of the towns near by we didn't ever use a taxi, just hoofed it where ever we were going, but boy are those drivers persistent!! My favorite was when we were seconds away from entering the restaurant we were headed to when someone would call out "taxi!?" ha!!
Dads been working on a nudibranch identification app for the apple app store while we've been on this trip and he managed a bunch of work time on that during our Goa down time...seems like he's nearing the finish line on that one, which is good for him...vacation and getting something accomplished!! This makes me feel like a lazy bum (which I don't mind too much) but I decided that it would be nice to have something to do in my spare time and travel times (besides doodle jump and peggle) so I hoped on the iBook store and bought the first book in the wheel of time sage by Robert Jordan. While i've read the first 10 books already I decided that with the finale coming up in a year or so that I'd start on a re read to catch my self back up on everything from the first 10 books before going on :). It's been really nice reading it on my iPad (nicer then I though it would be!) it's just a pain when your book's batteries die...or when the flight attendant on a plane as me to turn off my book :(.
When our stay in Goa was up we headed out from our constantly renovated hotel and hit up the airport bound first for Mumbai and then on to Jaipur! One funny note while passing through security at the Goa airport was when I forgot to empty my water bottle...the woman opened it up, smelled it, and then asked me to drink some! Seems like if I was up to something devious I'd just have to be willing to drink a bit :p or just pretend, heh!
Any how our journey was mostly uneventful. We found a cafe coffee day at the Mumbai airport and killed some time there...tasty! Once we arrived in Jaipur a man with am really sweet beard (the kind that has really thick parts on the chin and shaved in the middle) picked us up and drove us the the hotel. The town seemed alive and bustling, much more so then any other town in India so far. Can't wait for tomorrow to get out and check out the amber fort and the Jaipur royal palace!
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