Yes we fit the four of us in the back seat! And yes it was a tight squeeze. We told the driver where we wanted to go and just trusted that he understood? About twenty minutes into the drive and after we drove in circles a few times we all started to worry that he didn't know where he was going. But alas he found the mall and we started our fulfilled our of shopping before we had to head back to meet the vans.
We stopped to eat in the food court. Krissy had KFC and Chen, Carlie and I had Pizza Hut. Pizza hut in India is like fine dining! The best part about us eating is that they wouldn't let Krissy in the Pizza Hut corner of the food court with "outside food" so Chen and Krissy ate behind a half wall on a table and we sat next to them in Pizza hut. Everyone looked at us like we were crazy. But hey we get a lot of that here!
With twenty minutes to get back to meet the rest if the group we headed to catch a rickshaw. Once we exited the mall a man approached us saying "you go to the Mormon church? You with the Rising Star?" I asked him how he knew and he said he knew the Rising Star very well. We were happy about this because we didn't have an exact address to the church and we didn't know our way back. He told us the price to get back but it was double what we paid to get there. We said no thank you. He laughed at us and told us that no one else would take us for any less than what we offered. We declined and started asking other drivers if they knew where the Mormon church was, we pulled out a picture of the church and one man said that he did know where the church was and said we could pay him what we paid to get there! We all jumped in and then he got out. He said something in Tamil to the man who told us we wouldn't find a ride.
About five minutes into the ride he turns and said he had a vague idea where he was going. He hardly spoke any English and didn't understand what we were saying. After another ten min he pulled over in the middle of a busy street and told us to get out. He asked us for more money than we agreed on we battled with him for a few minutes paid what we agreed and we got out. Not knowing where we were and in the middle of a busy intersection! We had to dodge cars and run across the street to the nearest side walk. After we thought about the events we realized he never knew where he was taking us. He was friends with the man we made mad and he took user away and dropped us off in the middle of nowhere asking for more money. I wish now that we had never paid him but at the time we all just wanted out of his car.
Thank goodness Krissy had taken one of the coordinators phone and we could call and tell them we were lost. We tried getting to the Marriott we stayed in on our first day but none of the drivers seemed to know where it was. Oddly enough when we said we wouldn't go with them because they didn't know how to get us there they would be upset. About 40 minutes of standing in the hot sun and walking around lost in Chennai one of our vans passed us, called the other driver and told him where to find us! We were saved! What a crazy experience!
We all got picked up and headed to get pizza for the rest of the group. We don't have a cook on Sunday so we had to pick up dinner for everyone!
These three beautiful ladies are my roommates. From left to right its Taylor, Becca (blonde) and Emily!
These are our beautiful hand made shoes we got Saturday In Mamallapuram!
Later that night we were all craving chocolate! Emmalee was going through her bag and pulled out a bag of chocolate that had previously melted! We got a plate and a knife and went for it. The longer we sat there devouring chocolate the more chocolate we found. We ate every piece of chocolate we could find that night. We all became chocolate wasted. We laughed until our sides hurt! I have loved my roommates and I will miss them like crazy! Go Room Parakeet
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