Jabalpur

Holydays occur almost once or twice a month her in india. Yesterday was one of those days, so we took the opportunity to have our good indian friends Many and Alice take us to the nearest big city... Jabalpur. It took us two hours to get there. There's not a good theatre in Damoh, where we are staying, so the first place Many took us was to a mall theatre, we bought tickets to a movie that's called "Guest, when are you leaving?" The whole movie was in Hindi, but we still enjoyed watching it.

After the movie we went back to the Mercy Home for the girls. This is the same location that we painted the girls' nails and did their hair. They were excited to see us. We played girlscout type games, they they taught us a popular Indian game called Pitha. It's a team game that requires a lot of running and skill with throwing a ball. They were a lot better than us at it!

Many and Alice also took us to a lake 20 minutes outside of town. It was a large lake that would be perfect for wakeboarding... except that there are crocodiles in the water. That didn't stop us from renting a couple paddle boats and playing on the water for a while! We didn't see and croc though!

We then spent a few minutes meeting Alice's family. Her father is Chinese and her mother is Indian.. so we call her a Chindian! They greeted us with the normal Indian warmness including hot masala chai and something sweet. We didn't take the "something sweet" because we were heading off to what is supposedly the best Chinese food in all India. The Clocktower Chinese restaraunt. We tried the Hot-and-Sour Soup and some other nice dishes. We were full, but we still had room for a visit to and indian Ice cream shop. We headed back to Damoh around 9:30.