Saturday

This morning started out with a massive cockroach kill!! We found nearly 10 huge ones right next to the bed and after screaming loud enough so the entire 20 floor apartment building were hearing our war cries, we went on a hunt, a licensed-to-smack hunt. After all the smacking and crunching came the question: what to do with the carcasses? We were not about to put them in our little trash can so that our eyes had to see them every time we through something out. So, out the front door they went in the hopes the winds would carry them to cockroach heaven. When we checked a few hours later, our plan seemed to have worked, unless the caretaker decided it was just simply too gross.

Unfortunately, it left us with a horrific thought what might be under and behind our bed…….ugh.

We decided to scrub the apartment one more time and after several sweaty hours, we took our well deserved ½ minute shower, which hasn’t been there for several days by the way. I have had to resort to washing using a faucet about a foot about the ground in the bathrooms.

We spent the afternoon catching up on rest, emails, research, trying not to think about having to sleep in the potentially cockroach infested bed and reading the local newspaper. According to the newspaper, the monsoon is finally here and will work its way up over the next few days. The showers we have experienced are apparently just an appetizer. Next week will prove interesting. Hanna and I decided to get some monsoon shoes. Can’t wait to show you!

We popped down to our new found sanctuary (HyperCity) and found the most amazing bread and chocolate cake!! I know my stomach will make me pay for the extreme chance in diet but it was worth it!!

I also wanted to make some fried rice for supper, so I needed safe chicken and eggs. While shopping for eggs, we found out that eggs are not refrigerated. Can you imagine our reactions when we were pointed toward the eggs sitting out in a warm area? The frozen chicken was, like every other frozen item, only semi frozen. I knew Mumbai has a severe power problem and that became evident when waiting in line. Just like that the power went out (fortunately the cash registered somehow still worked) and it became unbearingly hot within minutes. Looking around, people seemed to be used to this so we rolled with the punches too.

Life is really different here.