My mom and I woke up before dawn and walked down to the Yoga room for class. As the sun rose, our class repeated 10 Sun Salutations. Afterwards we relaxed and meditated for twenty minutes.
We had breakfast as usual and I rode in the car with my mom to her office. Our driver had been to temple in the morning. I knew this because he had something smeared on his forehead between his eyebrows.
On the way to the office we saw many people lined up outside the small temples. I asked our driver Shadakshari if he had gone to temple and he shook his head from side to side.
On the side of the road we saw workers gathered eating a porridge looking dish out of bowls made out of big green leaves. They looked like banana leaf bowls but I'm not sure.
Shadakshari dropped me off at the hotel Leela Palace for the afternoon. I walked around outside the confined walls of the hotel through the side streets and residential areas. Many of the houses had strings of mango leaves across the doors and yellow flowers hung around the windows. Women were gathering water from the car water tanks and as I walked by they motioned for their children to look at me. The children smiled and giggled at the sight of me.
I found chalk drawings in front of some of the gates to the homes. I think they were for the Ugadi.
Here are a few of the pictures I took on my walk:
Mango leaves on the doorways
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