Today was billed as the game day of wedding festivities. After the big festivities yesterday, today is pretty quiet and laid back. Many people are recuperating, resting or tending to various sicknesses. Excellent food is still prepared at the Jain residence.
Lindy is ailing from a bad cold/flu and stays at the hotel when Bob and I take a taxi to the Jain residence. We have a meeting scheduled with the tour arrangers (Aman and Rajan) and Arun to settle our final bills for the tours. After shaking hands all around and having a spot of tea, Arun and Aman quickly settle on a figure which is about what Bob and I expected. Bob starts to count out the money, but runs into a section of 10s in the middle of the 100s. Arun grabs the bills and quickly counts out the money to Aman. We are done with tour payments and exchange pleasant goodbyes with Aman and Rajan.
J.D. asks if I brought games with me. I had thought about it briefly, but I expected the games here to be party games, not the kinds of board games we always play in California. In any case, I decided I didn't want to carry a game around for a month that would only be played one day, if at all. The games I did see were for the newlyweds to play and the family and friends to watch. J.D. and Ankita gathered in the living room with a circle of spectators. Their shoes and wrists were tied with difficult knots. The challenge was to untie your knots in less time than it took your partner to untie theirs. Each person took their own turn while being tickled and wrestled by the other. Some strings with particularly Gordian knots were snapped into two instead of untied. Another game involved forcing open your partner's fist with your own hands (J.D. was only allowed to use one hand to pry a finger from Ankita's fist).
In another game, an area was set up with plastic and towels to protect the rug. A shallow dish was filled with water made opaque with flour and herbs. Various things were dumped into the dish - keys, metal loops, utensils and a single ring. The object was to muck about the water, pull out a handful of stuff, and hope that you have the ring. This, too, was played with the highly competitive, but loving, spirit that J.D. and Ankita exhibit during our game weekends. Finding a ring in water turned out to be a new form of martial arts. Some water escaped its confines, though the mess was minor.
I was not feeling too well, and called a taxi to take me back to the hotel. Neither of the two taxi companies could come within two hours, so I finally settled for a taxi arriving in about four hours.
Lindy is ailing from a bad cold/flu and stays at the hotel when Bob and I take a taxi to the Jain residence. We have a meeting scheduled with the tour arrangers (Aman and Rajan) and Arun to settle our final bills for the tours. After shaking hands all around and having a spot of tea, Arun and Aman quickly settle on a figure which is about what Bob and I expected. Bob starts to count out the money, but runs into a section of 10s in the middle of the 100s. Arun grabs the bills and quickly counts out the money to Aman. We are done with tour payments and exchange pleasant goodbyes with Aman and Rajan.
J.D. asks if I brought games with me. I had thought about it briefly, but I expected the games here to be party games, not the kinds of board games we always play in California. In any case, I decided I didn't want to carry a game around for a month that would only be played one day, if at all. The games I did see were for the newlyweds to play and the family and friends to watch. J.D. and Ankita gathered in the living room with a circle of spectators. Their shoes and wrists were tied with difficult knots. The challenge was to untie your knots in less time than it took your partner to untie theirs. Each person took their own turn while being tickled and wrestled by the other. Some strings with particularly Gordian knots were snapped into two instead of untied. Another game involved forcing open your partner's fist with your own hands (J.D. was only allowed to use one hand to pry a finger from Ankita's fist).
In another game, an area was set up with plastic and towels to protect the rug. A shallow dish was filled with water made opaque with flour and herbs. Various things were dumped into the dish - keys, metal loops, utensils and a single ring. The object was to muck about the water, pull out a handful of stuff, and hope that you have the ring. This, too, was played with the highly competitive, but loving, spirit that J.D. and Ankita exhibit during our game weekends. Finding a ring in water turned out to be a new form of martial arts. Some water escaped its confines, though the mess was minor.I was not feeling too well, and called a taxi to take me back to the hotel. Neither of the two taxi companies could come within two hours, so I finally settled for a taxi arriving in about four hours.
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