Today I woke up early and was ready to go at 7am for our shopping tour. Little did we know this wasn’t exactly the kind of tour we expected. When we got there, it took forever to set up the bus that we were supposed to take (nothing ever happens on time in this country, which still to this point in the trip annoys me so much). Once the bus was arranged we went around the corner and watched a movie on Auroville again, which was so confusing to me and the rest of the group because we had no idea this shopping tour had anything to do with that. Turns out, the tour is taking us to a bunch of shops run by people of Auroville so that the money goes to them directly. The whole thing was very strange but we had to suck it up.
I bought a couple of little things like incense and candles, but we stopped at a lot of places. The most memorable place was a store that looked like a picture frame store, but when you walked in it was literally hundreds of pictures of “The Mother.” Trust me, if you saw what this woman looked like and you saw that many pictures of her starring at you, you’d be frightened like we were. It was such a random store; in addition to all those pictures, they had kitchen supplies (so strange).
Finally we finished the tour and looked for a place to eat. It literally took us over an hour to find a restaurant serving lunch. Every place we went into said they weren’t serving food today (so frustrating). We ended up at the same restaurant where we ate dinner the previous night, which was fine by me because the food was really good. I got gnocchi in a mushroom sauce and some pineapple sorbet for dessert, yum!
After a very long nap and some hanging around the hotel, we went to the SAME restaurant for dinner! (This is honestly the only decent place with food in the area) Jess, Arielle, and I all split our food, getting a bunch of pizza, pasta, and some stuffed mushrooms. It was all so delicious and we were very content. A bunch of other people got a buffet, so Mimi snuck us a piece of cake that the 3 of us engulfed like vultures, which was pretty funny! Becca also made a point to bring “The Mother” picture she bought along with us to the restaurant and decided to give life to this picture. We were all getting so creeped out by the picture, and we would keep turning it around to face other people when they weren’t paying attention (nobody could look this thing in the eye!)After dinner we went to a local chocolatier where Jackie and I split a piece of flourless chocolate cake. It was very tasty, except for the fact that it was the end of the day so not totally fresh (but it’s India, I’ll take what I can get). Tomorrow we’re leaving Pondicherry at noon to head back to Chennai, where we will fly to Mumbai the following day (our last stop of the trip). I’m definitely itching to get home at this point in the trip because I miss home and I’m actually excited for cold weather ☺
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