Well, we spent Thursday and half of Friday hanging around at the heavenly Taj Lake Palace Hotel, the former summer residence of the Maharana. It was awesome. The gardens, food, our room, pool...all were top notch and still a few pleasant surprises. Even room service breakfast required two waiters: one to bring in a table and set up with formal place settings (10 mins) and the next to bring in the tea and toast! This place was not India (not a bad thing to take a break for about 36 hours) but also not reality and sadly we had to leave and begin our 33 hour journey home to Elvira, the cat. We transfered in Mumbai (Bombay) and we've decided to rename it Hell's aiport. People everywhere, hot, yelling, honking. Arrival and Departure drop off /
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