Mysore vacation

Back in Mysore again. The car was an hour late to pick us up. Thubten, who was riding with us, missed his train to Bangalore and had to get in another taxi for two hours more of bumby roads. Construction work is going on almost everywhere on the highway but eventually it will be finished and smooth? We’re staying at Hotel Metropole. It has television, WiFi and a swimming pool (www.baljeehotels.com). The kids jumped right in. Indians think we’re crazy to go in the water in this season. Some of them are even wearing woolen hats. But it’s just like a Swedish summer. We brought a big bag of dirty clothes for the hotel laundry service to wash. In the humidity of Bylakuppe the clothes never seem to dry. The climate is a lot better here in Mysore although we’re only two hours away. The luxury is quite a change from the leaking roof and frequent power cuts. On the other hand it has been a great way to pass time to try and figure out the pattern and logic behind these events. Everyone has a theory but none of them seem to be right. Before we moved in Tenzin rarely used the kitchen except for making tea. It’s rebirth has started to attract unwanted guests. Saturday night a rat ran around the beams under the roof. He climbed a palm tree outside and squeezed under the roof sheets. The kids were alseep but Anna could lay in beds and follow it’s acrobatic movements. A spray raid flushed out a couple of big, fat cockroaches that turned belly up. It’s poison but it works (one hit can kill an entire ant colony) Got to clean out the kitchen and scrub it when we get back.