Day Two at Amit's

Last night we got back from shopping with Amit and there were people working on setting up a festive looking canope the small driveway. They also had to girl he doing Henna designs on everyone. They quickly ushered me downstairs obviously picking up on willingness. They were asking me what i would like to have and point out a few examples on the whole family in the living room. I had no idea what to get so i just asked her to go nuts with anything she wanted. I ended up with an entire hand and writ design. DJ eventually caved and got one as well. I thought it was a lot of fun. I kept the paste on over night and it came out nice and dark on my pale skin. The darker skinned Indians came out much darker than mine.

This morning we went to the Barber. This is a completely different experience that getting your hair cut at home. This shop was very excited to see three Americans coming in and ushered us right in to the second floor. Starting with a hair cut Amit explained to the guy what i wanted done and he quickly got to work.I went for my issual hair cut, short on hte sides and back and long enough on the top to gel it. They do not use clipper it's all done by had. Only using different size comes to help with the lentght. When he was done he used a straight blade to clean up the back of my neck. It was not time for a shave. This is just like the barber shops back in the 50's. straight blades and the shaving cream brushes. I have to say it's the nices shave i have ever had. He even trimmed my goatee very nicely.

Now he moved on to given me a head message.Starting with oils, he started rub it through out my hair.These guys are not shy use force at times and genral at others. Then after a couple minutes and used a vibrating head messager. This was followed by a back messager that he used on my back and arms. Dj got a shave and a message as well which he found a little weird. They even cleaned up Ryan. Now we are looking good the the engagment part tonight that starts at 7. In the mean time we are going to have lunch here and head out on hte town. Amit has arranged deepaks cousin to bringus out. He just asked us to be back for 5:30.

I think we are excited for this party tonight. We picked up a pair of shoes for Amit last night that matches is tradtional indian outfit. A hand made shoe that resembles a slipper. It's hand made and dececrativly designed. Thinking that they might be to slippery we stops at a small street peddler to ad a sole to the buttom of the shoe. It didn't turn out as amit expected but he still seemed happy enough. I have also picked up a trational looking sandles. Handmade leather sandles. I needed somthing that would go with my tradtional outfit, sneakers just wouldn't cut it! lol