Bangalore attacks!

We arrived into Bangalore in the early morning of Friday the 13th. We ended up staying a bit further away from the city than we planned because the hotels were full on account of a big convention. After settling in we headed off to the main part of Bangalore to see Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix! We both enjoyed the movie and so did the packed audience that cheered whenever the main characters made their appearance. We treated ourselves to Dominos after the show and went off to shop for a bit. Wrapping up the day we found ourselves in a little lounge/bar called “NASA”! I thoroughly enjoyed the décor, with space pictures on the walls, the staff dressed in airline pilot costumes, and all kinds of weird space looking stuff around.








Jenneli enjoyed it too right up until they asked us if we didn’t want to sit in the “family section”. Which is a partly enclosed part of the bar where men AND women can sit. I partially understood how she felt as memories of the dance club in Mumbai came back to mind. We had a drink in the “family section” and left to go rest up for the night at the hotel.








The next day we took a tour of the botanical gardens which were full of honeymoon couples trying to figure out what to do now that they are married. Some seemed incredibly happy some looked more like they had been having better days. The gardens where littered with large amounts of trash as most places in India so we enjoyed the incredible trees and flowers. After the gardens we went to FabIndia, Jenneli’s favorite store in India. She wanted to shop for a while and I decided to head to a small bar for a beer as sitting in FabIndia can’t hold my attention for the 2 hours Jenneli might be in there. At the bar I met a great fellow who grew up near Chennai and had been to America and Europe. We had a great conversation and he asked if he couldn’t take Jenneli and I out to dinner. Had I known at that point what I know now I would have politely refused.






Jenneli explained to me, as we picked her up from FabIndia, that she wasn’t feeling to good and that we also needed to get a mouse for the laptop. The nice fellow suggested that he could take us to a shopping mall and then to the hotel. The mall was great however getting to the hotel turned out to be a problem because of traffic and he asked if we couldn’t stop at a nice bar to wait out the traffic. At this point Jenneli was not feeling well at all but she though she might be able to handle it. The bar turned out to be the same NASA place we were at the previous night. Jenneli made a turn for the worst and I apologized and we bolted for the hotel. The next few hours Jenneli was not in good shape and just as we debated going to a hospital she improved well enough to sleep. It took 2 full days of bed rest but she is now better. We think it was a pretty bad case of of Delhi belly but it could have been food poisoning. Sadly we had to use up the last of our antibiotics we have with us. We have more back at Ongole, so we’ll have to cross our fingers till then.