india day 5- the day chris got hit by a stick

Ravi woke up with food poisoning so we all decided to try to explore the city on our own, armed with our own personal driver of course! After a healthy and light breakfast of an assortment of cut up fruits and cereal, we were ready to go. A little nervous but also excited we set out for Colaba with 4 main places to visit. We first were dropped off at Metro shoes and we walked along a street filled with souveniers, bold colored jewlery and clothing, and incense. We decided to just walk around and see what we found and we looked into several stores of Indian homegoods. We saw many different linens, silk blankets, pillows and china. We realized after walking a little bit that we were really close to the Gateway and Taj Mahal Palace Hotel again and we looked at some of the stores around there such as Bombai Electric.

It was when we were walking along the stores here that Chris encountered a child around the age of 7 or 8 who pointed to his Pepsi and said "pepsi, pepsi." When Chris refused to give him the Pepsi, he hit Chris with a wooden stick! Thats not something we see often in NYC!

Next we decided it was time to eat and we found our driver, or actually he found us. We went to eat at Moshe Bakery, a Western cuisine cafe in the heart of Colaba. We ordered a variety of dishes such as garlic bread, hummus, kebab sandwich, pizza bagels with mushroom and peppers, baked spaghetti and of course dessert.. chocolate puddle, a yummy molten chocolate cake melted down with a sliver of cheesecake and brownie. Next we braved the monsoon that had just started up and went to Coloba Market to a store owned by Mrs. Nanwani's friend, Silver Market. We looked around at different silver goods and jewelry. We got back into the car just in time before the rain started pouring down again. Then we went to Cottage Industries, a series of three stores with different high quality Indian goods. We saw some beautiful pashminas of different qualities, different marble made elephants, and even diamond jewelry. Finally, we stopped by another jewelry store and then head back home to the apartment. We all took naps and rested up before dinner. We originally were going to go to Khyber, one of Mumbai's best Indian restaurants for dinner but decided to order in instead so Ravi could make it to the doctors office. We rested up back at the apartment and had a big family dinner in the dining room of lots and lots of really great Indian dishes and some Indian-Chinese dishes as well! The table was absolutely full of food and even taking one bite of each dish was enough to make me full. We had some butter chicken, almond chicken, dahl, different rotis.. Chris mistook a jalapeno pepper for a string bean! and ate the whole thing. He said he was trying not to cause a scene and he really did handle it really well! After some water and yogurt, he was much better but also done for the meal.