Saturday, November 8, 2008

A journey

I forgot to write about this but thought I should before I forgot! Yesterday dad and I made Vaibhav take us exploring since we were bored. I googled things to do in aurangabad and found something called zafar gate, where women were supposed to be weaving on the streets like they did 100s of years ago and have different shops. We hopped in a rickshaw and headed that way. When we got there it was quite different, mainly buses and some mechanic shops, but nothing else! The rickshaw driver told us that stuff was long gone. So we headed to the market. We decided we wanted to find somewhere to buy art, but Vaibhav had no idea where to find that. We both started googling for stuff on our phones. We found a couple places and asked for directions. We were told "head down that street until you see a temple on the left, don't turn left, turn right, then you will come to it.". We got a good laugh at the "don't turn left, turn right" instead of just telling us to turn right. We walked for awhile and couldnt find it, we determined the directions were a bit off. I got out my phone and noticed my GPS had picked up a signal, google maps had the art store so we started walking, following the GPS directions on my phone. Alas, we arrived! The art was very disappointing though, it wasn't the real stuff, just cheap posters of ghandi or buddhas. We considered it a good exploration and went home sweating and tired!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

What Fun! Maybe the art you found was in the exploration itself - done together.

Ginger Kay said...

How sad that after all of that you ended up with posters! Hopefully you'll be able to find something good in the days to come!

Anonymous said...

I'm glad some techy descriptions and comments are occurring, or Jonathan might feel he is becoming a ghost of himself. ;)