Who's coming in November!

On Wednesday, Nishu (Gaurav's Bro) took us around to look at the locations for everyone to stay when they come in November....Who's in let us know!

First stop was this cute little resort thing.  It easily was my favorite, although its not likely to be big enough depending on how many people are coming.  It isn't in Chandigarh, its a little more rural.  I swear, driving through the farmland I easily could have been in Illinois.  There isn't too much trash out in the middle of nowhere, its just fields. Really, could have been in Illinois.

After this one we checked out a couple of hotels. One was called the Lemon Tree or something.  I swear the must pump this god-awful super fake lemon smell into the hotel. (In hindsight Gaurav wondered if it was to keep the flies away.)  The hotel wasn't bad, but no one could tolerate that smell for a week.  Probably gives you cancer.

Overall the hotels are quite a bit different from the US.  I'd even venture to say they are dirty.  Not in a dust and trash all over kind of way.  But some of the chairs had stains, the carpets were not commercial grade carpet so they had track marks and were just really dirty overall.  Or you'll be walking around and there will be gross icky paan spit on the stairway. Here's a link to what it is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paan  (Actually I figured it was sort of like an amped up chewing tobacco, apparently its way worse. Even the kind without tobacco makes your cancer risk shoot up.)

It just was a little different I suppose. In US hotels everything is generally pretty pristine. You might call down if your drinking glass had a spot on it, or your towel wasn't folded correctly in fear that it wasn't clean. So stains on the carpet and what not were a little different for me.  Made me feel a bit snobbish, but you certainly get used to things being a certain way.

We did stop by a marriott, which actually might have been nicer than the Marriotts I have stayed in in the US. And I think my last 4 hotel stays were Marriotts. The Indian marriott was also 3x more expensive than the other hotels!

We did a little more shopping afterword. We had to go home from the last store empty handed because the power was out, so they couldn't accept Gaurav's credit card.... 

Power goes out in India: No one even reacts, not even a little

Power goes out in US: Everyone freaks out and runs around and worries if there is a fire, or a tornado, or a terrorist attack.  Everyone HAS to know "what happened"

As usual, I came home and passed out.  Gaurav came and got me to say hi as Manik stopped by again, and so did Aman, another guy Gaurav works with.  I woke up, said hi.  Got bored of not understanding any conversation and went back to bed.

Gaurav tells me that Aman had a little too much to drink and then tried to give himself cancer with Paan...and ended up puking in the potted plants out front.  I was in bed long before this.