After the Rains....

Yesterday was quite an adventure. Alisa and I went to her gym to work out. Gyms here are ridiculously expensive. The one I belong to costs me well over $100/month! Yoga is a bit more manageable. I went to a Sivananda Yoga place with Nathan and Alisa and it costs about 200/Rs, each class (about $4). I'm still figuring out the Sivananda thing, so I'll get back on that one. I've always liked doing Ashanta, so this is a switch. What I do like about Sivananda though, is that between each stretch, you do a rest period. And, anyone who knows me, knows how much I like to slee... I mean, rest. Anyway, her gym is nice, much nicer than mine, even though it only has weight machines and no free weights besides some dumbbells. The shower is also a steam bath with rainshower head. That was NICE.

Afterwards, we went to Saket mall. Saket mall is definitely for the rich or the ex-pats. They have everything from M.A.C. to French Connection to the Body Shop, Esprit, name it. After a delicious lunch, we went to the Lush store (how random is that?) and then left the mall to go to Sarojini Nagar Market. Now, Saroj (as the locals may have it) is the place to shop! It's basically a couple of blocks of cheap "fallen fresh off the truck" western wear. You an really bargain. I got two pajama bottoms for $1.00. And, they're nice. So, we're barely there for about 5 minutes or so (around 3:30 pm) and the skies opened up and it suddenly started to rain. Not too badly, though, so we thought we should at least leave with something! So, we happily continue. Hah!!!!!! Then, it really started to rain! We were trapped inside a store, with the vendor trying to make special deals with us ("rain sale") to buy all this crap from him. About 30-35 mins. later, we decide to make a run for it and try to flag down an auto! We had to practically swim to the main road. After we made it there, we couldn't find an auto to bring us back home. Finally, we got one, even though this other woman was trying to steal it from us (yeah, that's something else here, you gots to be assertive!!!!!). 100/Rs and about an hour or so later, we were back. Here are some photos that I took from the auto: