McDonalds McDonalds, Kentucky Fried Chicken and a Pizza Hut

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So it turns out that the five star hotel doesn't take our kind. They wouldn't let us swim!!! Talk about being on the other side of the counter for once. Instead we went to the mall and had free makeovers. Denise looked *more* like a drag queen than I did because they gave her a look that involved purple eye shadow and bright pink lipstick. Mine was a tad more natural but still had a little something special to it. Didn't stop us from dancing around the mall (yeah, like a real air conditioned mall) to Dirty Dancing and Guns and Roses tunes while scarfing down scoops of Baskin and Robbins ice cream. MMMM. We had pizza for lunch (um, and breakfast) and we had Ruby Tuesdays for dinner. Veg burger and fries for me and a veggie quesadilla for Denise. No free pop refills. So it was easy to waste the day in the end. Fun also :) We realize we are going a tad crazy (just in general).. mind you not AS crazy as the guy on the train (a westerner) who had a really serious conversation on his banana phone.

Now we are in Hampi. It's hot in Hampi and there are giant round boulder rocks everywhere you look. And on those rocks there are ruins. It's cool! We went to look for the waterfall today (where you can swim) but again.. no waterfall! We have terrible luck with waterfalls on this trip! So instead we "swam" in this rock infested slimy oozy pool filled with fish and full of lots of different crevices you can squeeze through and slide around on. I say "swim" only as a reference to the fact that we were immersed in water. I don't think frantically splashing your arms while your feet are up around your knees sliding over oozy rocks and guiding your way counts as *swimming*. Then us and the new BFF's (only for the day though and maybe tomorrow) we met at the same oozy pool went on an 'adventure' to get to a restaurant by climbing the boulders instead of taking the road (like normal people). It took us about 3 hours of scaling, praying, jumping, crossing rivers, hoping there were no snakes, avoiding the cows and buffalo and sweating profusely in the mid day sun. Then we ended up running from giant fire breathing dragons through a banana plantation and then scaled the rice fields. However, we made it to a cute restaurant and the view made it all worth it.