Pool day

Today I ventured down to the pool for the first time...I've been pretty much staying in the room and working while T's at work so it was a nice change. It's 90 degrees today, but it doesn't feel like it. There's always a breeze and for some reason it just doesn't feel that hot, even in my linen pants and long sleeve top. Over the weekend it's going up to 97! I wonder if it will feel worse in the city center with all of the traffic and people.

I stayed at the pool for about two hours and read The Lying Game, the first book in a new series by Sara Shepard (the author of the Pretty Little Liars books). If you like YA I highly recommend it; it's about a girl named Emma who finds out that she has a twin sister, but when she goes to meet her she finds out that Sutton (the twin) has disappeared. No one knows that she's missing and everyone thinks Emma is Sutton, so she has to go around pretending while trying to figure out what happened. It's totally geared toward teens, obviously, but it's a good poolside read. ABC Family is making it into a show this summer so I'm looking forward to watching it!

After swimming for a bit I went to the spa for my first-ever eyebrow threading experience. It hurt, but not as much as I thought it would. The girl did an okay job, not great, so I'm not sure I would go back. At least it was only Rs 44 (98 cents!!) with the discount we get from T's work. I ended up giving a 50 percent tip since it was so cheap. Back home it costs at least $10 for eyebrow threading so that was pretty crazy.

Last night we went to the midnight buffet for the first time. We learned from our $48 lunch buffet mistake and ordered off the a la carte menu instead. T had a burger and it was actually made out of buffalo instead of beef. The cow is sacred here, so people don't eat beef and a lot of them are vegetarians. It works well for me because most the menus here are filled with chicken dishes or vegetarian options. I stuck with ice cream since I already had dinner from room service (thin-crust margherita pizza, which was surprisingly awesome). They don't have a ton of Indian dishes on the menu and the ones they have aren't things I would eat, so I've been eating mostly Americanized food. When we venture out in town I'm sure I'll be able to try more things. I'm excited for the weekend so we can go on some excursions and eat somewhere besides the hotel!

So today's Bollywood video (I've decided to share a new one in each post) is from the same movie as the one I posted yesterday, Tees Maar Khan. I know almost all of the popular songs by now since I keep the one music video channel on all day while I'm working.