Days 35 & 36
(6/23 & 6/24)

We spent yesterday afternoon at the Lalbagh Botanical Gardens. It’s a 240-acre garden with a variety of paths, trees & flowers, and a lake. It’s also right in the middle of the city. Amanda and I spent our entire time there looking for the elusive aquarium. We found several maps that all showed the building (but never our location) so we basically just spent a lot of time wandering aimlessly, but we did manage to see the majority of the park over the course of our wanderings, which was nice. I think half the city was there (and the majority of them couples) and while that’s not necessarily my idea of a nice relaxing afternoon in nature, it was nice to see some green!

Today we went to the opening of the Autism Resource Library at the hospital. We (Lilly and GSE kids) carried some of the books over in our luggage so the Rotary club wanted to thank us, although I don’t think we actually did enough to deserve all the recognition at the meeting. After lots of required formalities and networking (as Cathy told us to do), we had lunch. This was probably the best part of the day and unfortunately we had eaten breakfast, because there was a ton of food. They served a traditional South Indian meal on leaves and said they were going to challenge us with a silverware-less meal. They did give all us foreigners spoons, and I am proud to say none of us actually used them!

Tonight we just hung out together and Sam made a really good daal dish.

Small temple on top of the hill

Tired puppies

Lunch
Only part of the food, and trust me, it tasted much better than it looks!