On Holiday With the Lovely Miss Janet
11/29/08 07:27 AM
Well, it kind of sucked that after six weeks of gorgeous weather, the monsoon hit right about the time that Janet landed. It also is very apparent that in Tamil Nadu, the standard way of doing business - and communicating in general - is to lie as much as possible.
I had arranged for a romantic weekend getaway at a “resort” in Mahabalipuram, but after many rounds of ordering and confirming a ride there, they never showed up and I probably over-reacted and we didn’t get to the “resort”. I was bitchy and Janet was understandably upset... so we spent her first Saturday walking and riding around town in auto-rickshaws. And it was raining off and on for the most part. Here’s some pics from day one:
Lots of funky temples everywhere, and the beach of course:
The next day, we did get a ride to Mahabalipuram:
Janet made a friend:
We had lunch at Santana’s, which has incredibly fresh seafood, and a view of the shore temple:
Then we walked back to our driver just before it started raining again:
It was a very nice day, and almost made up for my screw-up of the previous day.
The work week was incredibly hectic, so we didn’t have much time together. Janet found an ayurvedic place and had a couple of nice treatments, we had dinner at one of the officer’s houses, and some dinner reservations that I made on another evening somehow got cancelled because the place was closed - even though they said it was open. LIES,LIES, LIES. We did manage to salvage the evening and have a magnificent thali at a much more expensive restaurant, but it was well worth it .
On our last free day, we hired a driver to take us to Kanchipuram, but the flooding was so bad that after an hour we decided to give up. We decided to ride a bus and see where it would take us. We started walking around, but it started raining and flooding again, so the day was kind of a bust. Janet left that night and I flew to Kolkata the next day...
Although it was a success in some ways, the week would have been much better if the weather (and the lying Tamil Nadus) were a little better. I hope miss Janet got at least a little out of it and it was truly a pleasure to have her here. I absolutely adore this girl immensely, and I feel that I let her down.
I miss her SO much already.
I had arranged for a romantic weekend getaway at a “resort” in Mahabalipuram, but after many rounds of ordering and confirming a ride there, they never showed up and I probably over-reacted and we didn’t get to the “resort”. I was bitchy and Janet was understandably upset... so we spent her first Saturday walking and riding around town in auto-rickshaws. And it was raining off and on for the most part. Here’s some pics from day one:
Lots of funky temples everywhere, and the beach of course:
The next day, we did get a ride to Mahabalipuram:
Janet made a friend:
We had lunch at Santana’s, which has incredibly fresh seafood, and a view of the shore temple:
Then we walked back to our driver just before it started raining again:
It was a very nice day, and almost made up for my screw-up of the previous day.
The work week was incredibly hectic, so we didn’t have much time together. Janet found an ayurvedic place and had a couple of nice treatments, we had dinner at one of the officer’s houses, and some dinner reservations that I made on another evening somehow got cancelled because the place was closed - even though they said it was open. LIES,LIES, LIES. We did manage to salvage the evening and have a magnificent thali at a much more expensive restaurant, but it was well worth it .
On our last free day, we hired a driver to take us to Kanchipuram, but the flooding was so bad that after an hour we decided to give up. We decided to ride a bus and see where it would take us. We started walking around, but it started raining and flooding again, so the day was kind of a bust. Janet left that night and I flew to Kolkata the next day...
Although it was a success in some ways, the week would have been much better if the weather (and the lying Tamil Nadus) were a little better. I hope miss Janet got at least a little out of it and it was truly a pleasure to have her here. I absolutely adore this girl immensely, and I feel that I let her down.
I miss her SO much already.
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