More Bangalore

Thursday we all went to the Mastery International School, to drop Anna off for a day of 'checking it out'. We left at 7:40 from downtown and arrived just before 8:30. There was general chaos outside as children were unloading from the buses which have brought them to the school from various points about the city. Cindy and I then returned back to the hotel (where I then had several phone meetings during the morning) and Cindy went off to the OWC. She met lots of new and longer term expats and came back full of stories.
In the afternoon we picked up Anna from school. When we arrived, it was just about 10 mins before school was to let out, we signed in and found a comfortable spot to sit in the lobby. Shortly we spotted Anna across the lobby speaking with a young girl, who we found out later is the one she shadowed for the day. Then she came over to talk to us (and gave us the thumbs up). She went back to chat with her new friend and was intercepted by a young man who spent a good 10 mins chatting her up. Later (today at lunch) she admitted to having flirted with many of the young men at the school. I think she's going to be rather popular there. Anyways she seemed very comfortable there and we noticed that all of the children were very friendly and there was a general good will in the air as they were leaving for their various buses and cars.
After that we went to the Krishna temple on the hill. It is large. Unfortunately I didn't get any pictures, so you'll have to google it or something. We spent about an hour there and then came back to the hotel to rest up a bit before dinner.

On the way back, while we were sitting in interminable traffic, just to go a few Kilometers, I saw this pharmacy. Here in Bangalore the ambulances have red crosses, but if you need a pharmacy, you need to look for the green cross.

For dinner we met Gerd and his wife Helga at the Oberoi which has 3 nice restaurants (although I think the restaurant at the Chancery Pavilion is better). We had Indian Buffet dinner with them while they filled us in on their various trials and tribulations here in India with servants, drivers, landlords and the like. Anna was a trooper through the dinner as it wasn't too interesting conversation for her, but she looked very elegant in her Indian outfit(from the shopping at the mall). Again too bad I don't have a photo, but somehow the photography has been difficult this trip.

Today I had to go into the office, so Cindy and Anna went shopping on MG road. After my meetings I met them.

We had to wait out a good rainshower, and then finally decided to go eat even though it was still raining. This is the first time I've felt cold here (except for the AC in some places which can be too much). I got a bit wet, but not thoroughly soaked. We had a nice lunch in a definitely 'new Bangalore' restaurant called Soul, where they played everything from Eminem to Country, rather loudly. Then we came back to the hotel as it was still raining and we're now planning to go to Sunny's for dinner. Tomorrow will be our last day, let's see what that brings, I hope the weather will cooperate and we can see a bit more of the outdoors.