good bye india

Saturday April 14

We’re flying home (technically tomorrow morning- as our flight is at 5am). 

It does not feel real but our time in India has come to close. 

Thanks to flying West and the time change we will be in Boston by tomorrow. 

We spent the day packing and then to kill time went to the mall. 

I know that it sounds very lame to spend a day at the mall when we’re in an exotic city but we thought it was a part of the Mumbai culture.  Plus we saw all the “monuments” when we came the first time and are just a bit tuckered out at this point. 

It was a strange sort of transition back to home.  This mall was super high-end and nice.  It was sort of strange after what we’ve been used to for so long.  Things were the same price at home and the mall was filled with all the designer shops that my empty pockets steer clear of at home.  It wasn’t really what we were expecting at all but seeing as it was filled with western food we enjoyed our 8 hour day at the mall just fine. 

We went to our first Bollywood movie.  It was all in Hindi.  We basically just went for the experience.  There were a couple of kind of interesting things for us.  One being the national anthem playing while an animated India flag fluttered on the screen, prior to the movie starting.  We felt really badly when we didn’t initially realize what it was and sat through the beginning of it.  We had a hard time figuring out what the movie was about and missed out on a lot of the humour.  Although the parts that the crowd really roared over was the really physical comedy like a snake biting a mans crotch.  So that we could catch but didn’t find that amusing.  Generally I concluded that the addition of arranged marriage gives writers a lot to work with.