India (final)

The third day in India we took breakfast to go because we had to meet the other SAS people for a day trip so our host families didn‘t have to figure out what to do with us (although I would have liked to spend more time with them), and I think some of them had to work since they took the day before off to meet us.  We went to crocodile bay, Mamalapurim, and ate another authentic southern Indian lunch at a hotel restaurant.  We also saw Krishna’s Butter Ball (a giant natural rock formation that is well, a giant boulder sitting on a slope and not falling), and several temples from a distance because it was too expensive to go in or that is what our tour guild told us. 
Trying to hurry because I am behind so…
Got picked up by our family, our host mom made us a fabulous dinner, she kept feeding us more and more.  The next morning for breakfast it was the same thing.  But it was really good so I didn’t mind too much.  We got to try on Sharmila’s sari’s after breakfast and Arul took lots of pictures.  Then they took us to St Thomas Church where there is suppose to be a piece of the apostle Thomas’ actual bone.  We had lunch at a restaurant (a large chain that I ended up eating at the next two days).  Then we went to a school where the rotary club helps pay for some poor girls schooling.  The girls held a rotary club meeting and afterwards we got to talk with them.  Our host parents then took us back to the ship where we showed them around and ate dinner.  Then we said our goodbyes. 
The next day we went by rickshaw to some more shops and picked up our Kurta’s we had made.  They are really nice.  That night we saw another Indian movie, the one everyone in India had been talking about, The Robot.  It was a very strange movie to say the least.  We got back to the ship around 1:30 am. 
The last day in India we took a cab to the market and finally after all our time there, got to walk around and just see the sights.  I got a sari and some cotton kurtas and a few other things I couldn’t resist.  I Love India!  It was a good day.  I was sad to leave it but it was on to Singapore.