We Love Jaipur!

Monday 23rd January.

Today we woke up happy after a good nights sleep and happy to actually be clean and have a nice shower. After breakfast, Ravi took us to the Amber Fort and Palace which was beautiful. Me and Em explored our way up and saw lots of goats and elephants! At the top aswell, we bumped into our friend Lucie - what a coincidence! Huan also very much enjoyed this trip and loved the sunshine. 

We then went into the Pink City to see the City Palace and to have a walk around. We also went up to see some temple which some crazy man on the street was praising...we got there to find it was just an empty rooftop...interesting! Nevertheless it was fun to walk around and actually see the sights! We also met a lovely indian man who gave us advice on what to see in Jaipur for the next few days!  Ravi stayed in the car and when we finished we found him fast asleep with his chair put right back haha! Em tapped on the window until he woke up, dont think he liked this as he was a little bit moody for the next half an hour - MEN! 
I think he is getting abit frustrated having to talk to two girls all day and is missing male company! He says its because he has to protect us and would get in trouble if anything happened to us, what a cutie! We went for something to eat and let him walk off his mood for abit, we found somewhere that did cheese toasties! In india everywhere you go, little children come up to your car window or window by where you are eating and pull puppy dog faces and pretend to eat to make you feel bad - so Em gave her some crisps! Dont think she appreciated it though and 5 minutes later she was asking for more... We also met a little boy who did a magic show for us, he was actually pretty good and took it very serious finishing the show with "3,2,1...The Magic Show is over". He was very cute! 


Ravi then took us to a shop as we wanted some trousers, he told us not to go to the market stall but to go to this one particular shop - hes obviously not on commission! Anyway they did have very nice stuff but we did not buy it as it was waaaay too expensive and saw it much cheaper! But we did stay for about an hour and learnt the owners life story - he was very interesting and spoke english really well. It was nice to actually learn about culture here and about his family who he is very proud of and wants to send to London. We even got given a souvenir from the shop with a print of an elephant on it! 


Later we went out to a indian folk dance restaurant with Ravi and actually had a nice curry - our first of the week! There was also a lady who danced around with big bowls on her head, she was pretty impressive actually and made me and Em dance with her. So in front of a restaurant the lady, me, Emily and some other Man danced around in a circle. I obviously shocked everyone with my moves, its like i was born an indian dancer really. Ravi was annoyed as he missed it and wanted to take pictures and laugh at us, he had been to get some vodka and snacks and we went back to our room to get drunk. Emily and Ravi drank the majority of the bottle, i wimped out for once, dont know whats wrong with me! Instead i entertained them with my singing and dance moves. 

We are loving India now and although we are still excited to go to Thailand we are now enjoying ourselves and enjoy seeing the different cultures here. Tomorrow we are going to the monkey temple, some other sights (couldnt understand what Ravi called them but they are probably temples) and maybe going to see an bollywood movie in the evening! It will be our last full day in Jaipur before we head back to Smelly Delhi - ergh. Hopefully we will be spending one night at Ravi's home and will get to meet all his family and see the way they live so that should be really good.
For now that is all, i will make sure i get lots of pictures of Emilys face tomorrow when she is disgusted with all the monkeys!
xoxo