The only thing I wanted to do was return to the Marionette shop and buy a dancing princess. The day before when I dropped in and asked for prices, they didn’t seem high and I thought I could get them even lower. When we went back, the shop was full of men (not the woman I spoke to the day before) and the prices nearly tripled. It was fun to see the back room full of fancy marionettes and see them dance, and as much as I wanted the dancing princess, I couldn’t pay triple for one. Thankfully, another small shop had fair prices and even if they didn’t have an elaborate dancing princess, they did have a marionette horse that made up for it!
We wanted to take a train to Mumbai. It would have been faster, but all of the trains were full, so we had to take another overnight bus. We almost didn’t make it. Some of the overnight buses park in random places and our rickshaw driver had no idea where it was. After, of course, we piled into his rickshaw and had been on the road for ten minutes or so… It was also the slowest rickshaw in all of India. He stopped for directions a few times, thought he took us to the correct place, only to find no bus. When we got back into his rickshaw,
he asked: When is your bus?
we responded: 6:30
driver: Ohhh very big problem! And what time is it now?
Andrew: 6:31
driver: Ohhh very big problem!
Luckily, the bus was still there. I have no idea how we made it. And it turned out to be the nicest bus we’ve been on yet!
