We went to the botanical gardens. Caroline needed the toilet, but we could see a succession of women coming out of the ladies toilets and throwing up...so decided it was a bit too disgusting. Load a of people wanted to have their photo taken with Henry or touch his cheeks.
We went to dominos pizza for dinner. Not the best value, but nice enough.
The next day, we went pedal boating on Ooty Lake. It was very busy with Indian tourists. It cost £2 for 45 minutes...with a £2 deposit if you get back more than 5 minutes late.
We had these giant life jackets on the boat which were totally unsuitable for small kids, so we decided we were better off without them. An employee in a motorboat disagreed and was following us around shouting at us and blocking our path with his boat. At one point he was waving a claw hammer at us, but he gave up when I decided to start filming him. I must remember to film problem people sooner, it really makes problems go away.
Winston put his life jacket on anyway after that. I always like it when he makes his independent decisions.
Winston and Henry went on an old kids Ferris wheel.. For ages... Other kids got on and off...but it seemed you could go as long as you liked and you had to tell the operator when to let you out, so they got off when they had had enough. It cost 30p.
We want in a Hindu temple and someone put some paint on our heads. Its quite funny to explain to Winston what people are doing in the temple.. When explaining in simple language it really highlights how mental it all is.
We came across an Easter Hindu procession . There were loads of firecrackers. It was all a bit loud for Winston
The next morning, we couldn't get the train to Mettupalayam because it was fully booked. I was told to queue up at 11:30, so me and Henry went and queud up for more than an hour... First in the wrong queue (for Conoor), then in the right queue... But not even the person at the front of the queue got a ticket... They could have put a sign up to say no tickets available... What a waste of all these people's time. Henry bought some bananas and a few women tried to poke his cheeks.
Also had some frustrating times with simcards, which used up lots of time.
We checked out of the hotel..had an argument about some washable pen on a filthy old bed sheet and drove around in a rickshaw looking for a taxi to Mysore. We eventually found one for £40.
About 15mins into the journey, the driver invited UA to his house for a cup of tea. 4 families live in the house..15 people. Very friendly. We had tea and biscuits and curry and rice and Winston and Henry played with an aeroplane and a toy car.
We went down a 36 hairpin road with loads of advertisements for hospitals and ambulances.
We went through a nature reserve and saw wild elephants, wild boar, deer..some amazing sites...even better because we didn't expect to see anything on the journey.
We arrived at our nice hotel in Mysore at about 9pm.
Next morningme and Henry sent for an early swim. We had breakfast a dn then all went swimming. There was some kids lessons going on, so we watched and waited for a bit and then asked if it was ok to get in the pool and we swam around in the middle of the lessons.
At 3pm we took a rickshaw to a mall and then to an Ashram where they had the most amazing collection of parrots probably in the world. There was even a talking one. It was free to visit.
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