The updates I said I wouldn't do, and peanuts

So it turns out Kale and I are not, in fact, going to Kumta (or wherever it was we were going to go), which is fine. So we can relax in Bangalore until the 8th, when we leave for Kabini. Yesterday we went to Raj and Jyothi's to say hello, which was a ridiculously pleasant way to start the day. And then got lost around Cubbon Park for a bit (my bright idea that we would walk through the park to get to MG road was undermined by my complete lack of directional sense). We played Bangalore's most popular death-defying sport for a while: trying to cross roads.

A burst of luck - we found both a cinema and a show starting in ten minutes, so we watched Om Shanti Om. I'm sure we missed some of the complexities of it - it was in Hindi without subtitles - but we managed to pick up the general thread and enjoy it.

Dinner at a lovely restaurant with live music and banana-leaf plates, and then we wandered around the Peanut Festival. Streets and streets and streets of peanuts, fortune-telling robots (photos to follow!), and random Plastic Stuff for sale.

And now time for work + breakfast + exploring!