MONSOON WEDDING

After pampering ourselves, getting our hair done and enlisting the help of a hotel desk clerk in order to make sure that our saris were not going to unravel on the dance floor, we were ready for Rushmi and Vikram's wedding. It is hard work to try and keep up with these Indian women!
The ceremony started and almost immediately it started raining. It quickly turned into a real monsoon and we had to take cover in the pavilions in the gardens, Now that would have been enough to turn any bride into a "bridezilla",but Indians are cool and Rushmi basically turned around at dinner and said: "You were all talking about a monsoon wedding and here it is, we got it for you!" What a sport!
Our saris badly need to go to the cleaners now, but we danced until really late and drank sweet concoctions of guava juice and vodka while ogling the amazing combination of all the outfits and the incredible jewellery. Another thing we learned is that in India you cannot possibly be over the top so you can just pile it on: the clothes, the jewellery, the make-up...
The next day we slept until noon and then had a fabulous brunch at the Oberoi followed by shopping for kurtas and bangles in the commercial district of Bangalore and at the Garuda Mall which is now officially one of our favorite places in town. They even have an espresso bar called : Barista that makes excellent coffees of any kind. The people at the mall were looking at us with a mixture of curiosity and disbelief, like they could not quite figure out what were we doing there ( there are not too many tourists in Bangalore), but to us it was just a mall with Katy Perry blaring from the speakers and girls in skinny jeans....