I haven't bought enough.

The title of this post is the feeling you get when you pack everything into the black and yellow backpack that your little brother gave to you when he was done - Dillon has to have a new backpack every year and what's not cool enough for a 12 year old still is cool to me - and realize that even with what you thought was a lot of purchases, it all still fits...barely.

Thus when I arrive in Cochin (quite a process) on Friday, I will probably nap, be lazy, and eventually pack my big duffel and see exactly how much room I can exploit and buy more things! I mean I will never say "Gee I wish I had bought less in India" let's be real.

Yesterday we did lazy Hampi things again, and also spent a few hours arranging the rest of Laura's time in India so that no time is wasted because trains are overbooked etc...
This may seem like a waste of time for me because I was not going on any of the aforementioned trains because they are going North - although we recently realized that my flight is out of Delhi and if I hadn't left most of my stuff in Cochin I could have lugged my big bag and flown out of there ah well - but I got to play with the owners daughter who he proclaims is a cheeky monkey.
And she is :-) we made faces at each other, she sat in my lap, she opened my wallet and made surprised faces at the money, she tried to take off my watch, I gave her a 5 rupee bracelet I had bought, and we haggled over the fact that she could not keep the $50 traveler check that I was cashing. She was so cute and funny and everything we did made her giggle. It was tons of fun and I felt especially cool because she was so taken with my pink nail polish. Thus I am way awesomer than Becca or Laura, just sayin.

I had to cash my traveler's check, because, if I haven't mentioned, there is only 1 ATM here and it does not take Mastercard. The bank is always open and has men in it, but does not actually function except during business hours...which seem to be from sometime until 2pm. But found a place to cash my check and am back in business! cost me 800 rupees for 6 nights in this hotel, it is nice to share the expenses with some buddies.

Speaking of buddies....went to Durga again, where they play the live music, because Becca is absolutely obsessed and it is pretty cool. Chatted and laughed until like 11:30 with another English girl, her bf Steve, and another guy. I don't remember names haha. And it was great to laughing and joking though I wish we had met them earlier because they would have been fun to wander around Hampi with. Slipped even further into my faux-British accent which I have no control over and is mostly the rhythm of my words and the use of words like "bloody, lovely, proper (as in "should we have a proper lunch or just a nibble"), loo roll, etc.... good times

But my lovely English buds left today without me. It really does make me so sad, traveling with those two was so much fun and it was so nice to have comrades when India got crazy. We were so lucky to get on so well and to be so comfortable with one another and I am seriously so unbelievably sad to see them go. I felt crazy ill this morning which didn't help and then stupid Laura had to hug me and tell me how much she would miss me which, of course, made me burst into tears like a nancy. But I have accepted my nancy status and will just have to comfort myself with the idea that I can go and visit them both in their native land and Becca can cook me yummy food and they can show me all the places they talk about that mean absolutely nothing to me haha!

So I am back on my own for the next...36-40ish hours. Hopefully at least 20 of them will be spent sleeping and hopefully (fingers crossed) the times will line up and I will be able to see Toy Story 3 in Bangalore which would eat up some of the 12 hours I have to wait between trains and be awesome!

Oh and ALSO! Last night we were talking about things we miss from home and things you get in America but not the UK and apparently Laura was super excited when she found a Cinnabon in England and the English gal was excited to have found Mountain Dew. Then Steve, who worked in the US for a bit, started talking about Krispie Kremes straight from the oven. Yummmmm...

Becca is excited to be home, not for another month, and have pasta and curl up in her duvet. Myself? I don't miss the food too much (I'll be so excited to eat it when I get back though) except the idea of taking it out of the fridge whenever I want and not constantly eating in restaurants. Plus I know exactly how it'll go when I get home.

We will drive up and I will leave everything in the car so I can plop on the floor and Kira can flop into my lap. Then mom will say "Bree look at you, you're covered in dog hair already ugh!". Then I will take a quick shower and put on my fluffy sweatpants and a HUGE hoodie and watch Tivo with the boys and talk and make fun and eat ice cream with my laptop working off of wireless RIGHT on my LAP!

So pumped. I'll miss India, but living outta your bag for 2 months gets old and all...ok well now there are some more scattered but the majority of the people I love are in the USA.

Obviously some more shopping to do before I come back...I'm gonna be brokkkkkke.
But it's a once in a lifetime experience right? Can't put a price on that :-)