Entry 4, Day 3

In the morning, we went to eat breakfast at Darshan's place at 8:00 "Indian Time", which meant it started when it started. We went upstairs and people were sitting around in one room. We took our shoes off and entered. Inside, a guy was chanting/singing and had a bunch of bowls around him and one large container. We were asked to come up at one point and get red paint rubbed on our foreheads. See side for pictures.
Later in the ceremony they started burning cow dung for purification. I found that interesting and humorous at the same time.
We came downstairs for breakfast after that.
Later we were invited to go outside to a playground. We saw a spinny thing that had been banned from most playgrounds. I span it myself because I'm a wimp, but I got less scared of the high speeds later.
We also played a game called cricket, which is like baseball except you throw the ball a different way and you run back and forth from only two bases. Dad says he didn't know what the score was, but he was pretty sure he lost. It was a lot of fun.
After that event, we went back to the hotel- a JW Mariott, the most high-end Mariott hotel- and rested.
That night, we went to a venue called Shree Ji Lawns and watched some really cool dancing to the good, bad, and decent Indian pop. It was mostly about the dancing. There was also plenty of force-feeding.
             
                          "I'm not tired."