Ooty ooty ooty

Nancy and I have been adventuring about and it's been a grand old time. She's totally hilarious and fun. I'm sad that we're going to have to part pretty soon, since I have to fly to Calcutta. We've also added another traveler, so now we're a regular trio. It's amazing how quickly you become close to people when you're traveling. The completion to our trio is Ash, who is originally from Kenya but lives in Bath.

Today the 3 of us went on a day trek with a group of people. It was super rare but everyone on the trek was really interesting and cool, and there were 12 of us. It's seriously so unusual to meet so many interesting people. My cheeks are sore from all the laughs and my face is pink from too much sun, but I'm very happy. Unfortunately, as seems to happen with good times, I don't really have any stories to tell. It was all beautiful, it was all funny, I had lots of conversations about explosive diarrhea, (Ash loves to talk about crap, and so do I, much to Nancy's chagrin).

Yesterday we met Ash on the toy train going up to Ooty. After getting a room for the 3 of us we went to the Botanical gardens where we were inundated by school kids taking pictures. Intense. Ash had a good laugh, his family is from India (Gujarat!) originally, so he's not used to all the attention that 2 white girls get.

Lots of the kids and adults here wear these ear muffs (just like the one Lynn bought mum for xmas one year) so we all bought ear muffs and sported our new looks around town. Now we really stand out from other tourists, and other tourists are totally jealous and we've convinced a fair number to join the club. You'd think we were making a commission, but really, we just look super cool; that's all.

In the evening we went over to some other guys' room to have some drinks and exchange travel horror stories. I realize that I really don't have any horror stories, and I can't decide if it's because I'm forgetful (did I just block all the bad stuff out?), laid back (like yeah, maybe I just don't care) or lucky (probably the truth). I think it must be a bit of a combination.

After having finishing all our booze, Ash, Nancy and I had to wake up the guard to let us out of those guys' hotel and then stagger back to our hotel, where we had to wake up our guard. None of them were impressed. Ash fell into the sewage drain on the side of the road, which was funny, well, for me and Nancy it was anyway. God, I took a look at it this morning and it really is very nasty, way worse than I had thought. Haha.

This is just some random thoughts really, since I'm waiting for Ash to finish emailing his wife. We left Nancy to get some sleep a couple of hours ago. We're all going to head to Bangalore tomorrow. Of course, on Thursday I'm heading to Calcutta for the big wedding. Rohit told me a couple of days ago that he had to go see his girlfriend in Delhi first, but it seems there's been another change of plans, so maybe he's not... I don't know, I couldn't really hear him on the phone today. Okay, Ash is done. Gotta go!