Sunday, February 1, 2009

The Rock Temples

Hello,

Remember Sloan wrote about Ajanta caves? The next day ( January 8) we went to another set of caves, Ellora. We only looked at a couple because we already looked at alot yesterday. Some dude kept nagging us to look at his coins. We told him "After we look at the caves, we'll see your coins...maybe". We looked at a couple of caves while Mommy slept on a bench. Some weirdos wanted to take a picture with us. I refused. We went and got Mommy and started walking towards the big caves. Guess who we saw? Pakaj, the guy we saw yesterday with Sophie. Except Sophie wasn't there. Pakaj said we should all go up to the viewpoint and talk or whatever. Once we got up there Mommy asked him about his job and he started this whole thing about I don't know what. I heard something about opening a new door to yoga or something. I lost him not too long after he got started. We finally said goodbye and walked down. Me and Daddy went into the big cave. There were lots of elephants but all their trunks were cut off. Don't ask me why. Once we saw a huge school tour coming we decided we were done. The guy with the coins came over, and he had one in perfectly good shape. The date said 1717. Yeah right. Me and Sloan each picked out a "real" coin and bought them. Mine was an East India Company coin from 1835. Sloan got a 1919 India Republic King George coin. We got in the rickshaw and started movingbut then Mommy realized she left her scarf thingy at the caves. So me, Sloan, and Daddy got out of the rickshaw and the rickshaw drove Mommy back to the cave entrance. She found her scarf. Yeah! Then we all squished together back in the rickshaw and drove to the hotel.


Peace Out.




Hailey

1 comment:

Charna said...

Hi Hailey:I have been remiss on responding to you blog. Was in Florida and caught a horrible stomach virus, so Florida was essentially spent in a bathroom in West Palm Beach. Not my idea of a few days at the beach. Oh well....
still recovering, but much better, I am fascinated by the elephant caves. I wonder why they don't have trunks? Did anyone tell you the answer to that one? See,s like the beach was a lot of fum. The beaches look so beautiful. Seems like you found some magical paths. Have fum in Mumbai. Safe travels and hi to all Charna