For our second day of the weekend, we decided to go shopping! What better thing is there than retail therapy? We left RSO at 7:30 a.m. to go shopping at T. Nagar street (while everyone else attended services at the Mormon temple) which was full of street vendors selling everything from fruit to bags to saris and gold bracelets. We left the RSO campus at 7:30 and arrived to shop in Chennai around 10 a.m. and had about 2 hours to browse through all of the stores! However, halfway through our shopping trip T. Nagar got incredibly crowded and Lisa and I ducked into several expensive gold shops to escape the heat and crowds! I ended up buying a few souvenirs for myself: tons of fun bangles (from the Pandian Bangles Shop - definitely go there if you ever come to India!), 2 pairs of Indian sandals which are super pretty, and 2 pairs of leggings to wear with my salwars during the week. Aftewards we took auto-rickshaws (basically golf carts) back to the temple and re-joined the group to return to RSO. Along the way we stopped at a supermarket and picked up some supplies for our trip to Andrah Pradesh tomorrow! (We will be overnighting there so we can do 2 full days of work for the colony, which is in desperate need of medical care. They probably receive about 2 visits per YEAR.) So excited to be going out to help them! But NOT excited about waking up at 5:30 a.m....I thought I was on vacation haha.
Me and one of the stone temples in Mahabalipurim!
Me, Nate, and Lisa at the Bay of Bengal beach!
The boys! (From left: Brenen, Tanner, CJ, Nate, and Tyler)
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