Chillin' in Chennai

Monday May 13 2013

We arrived in Chennai at 8pm Sunday night and went straight to our hotel, that N had wisely booked very close to the airport, and crashed.  We slept really late, which was lovely.  

As Vijayawada had been about a thousand degrees we decided to forfeit seeing all the awesome sites we had planned to hit and just have a mall day.  Chennai has something like the second biggest mall somewhere...India, Asia I don't know.  It's pretty big and quite nice.  

Unfortunately, as we encountered last year in Mumbai, all the shops are like high end and designer so it's not very good shopping.  The mall had quite an excellent food court though and my favourite Cafe Coffee Day, which is India's big coffee chain.  

Once we got bored eating we went and watched a movie.  $8 total for two movie tickets, pop and popcorn!  Best date ever!  We went to The Croads because it was the only English movie playing.  It was cute.  No national anthem before the movie, is time.  The chairs were like big leather recliners, that didn't recline.  Some were even together like a love seat.  You prebook your seats but sadly we didn't know about those couples couches.  Funniest part of the watching a movie in India:  Everyone who comes in late uses a super bright flashlight on their cell phone to find their seat, there is an intermission, before the movie and during the intermission commercials play so loudly that you can not have a conversation and best of all when something funny happens the audience claps as they laugh.  We rushed back to pack and flew out that night.  

 Cafe Coffee Day

Latte art makes me happy!

This is the washroom in the movie theatre...a little over the top.  The toilet seats were even heated...ick!  Haha one extreme to the other here in India!  It's weird looking at the photos for the last blog and this one side bye side!