India: That Touristy Thang

Cynthia from Berkeley UAEM and her friend Jessica visited Mumbai for the weekend! They are both law students working on some issues in some un-nameable place in India. We figured we would be tourists for the weekend, and for once, I was a complete tourist in India. It was actually pretty amazing.

First, we went to Navgraha--"the juice place," as we like to call it. It has awesome mango juice.



We took the trains down to VT/CST station, then went shopping.


(Photo courtesy of Jessica)









Back to the Taj and the Gateway of India.








(Photo courtesy of Jessica)










(Photo courtesy of Cynthia)

By the time we left, it was pouring rain, so we took an expensive taxi ride back home, and then went to Rajdhani to eat.


(Photo courtesy of Cynthia)



Finally, on Sunday, it was still pouring rain. We went to Sheesha, a nice restaurant at the top of the Shopper's Stop in Bandra. It was fairly intense since the winds were ridiculously strong, and the usually uncovered rooftop restaurant was covered with a plastic roof and tarp-like curtains that drummed loudly in the rain.



Since there was really no point in going anywhere (we really wanted to visit Dharavi, but there was no way to go there at that point), we headed over to the Taj hotel at the Bandstand. This was the same hotel where we went earlier for Krishna's full-body massage and for far too many cocktail snacks.

A chocolate-chip banana crisp with caramel ice cream.



Pretty food.



Once again, I shamelessly asked for more tea biscuits and yes, even for cocktail snacks.


(Photo courtesy of Cynthia)


(Photo courtesy of Jessica)

Oh, and I also stole their pen. ...I don't think I should go back for a while, they might charge me 3 times the amount next time.