We skipped the morning homework session on Wednesday and went to Irith's directly after breakfast. She lives in a very nice neighborhood - the people are clearly well-off but it's not as ritzy as the area by the hotel. Most of the buildings are smallish apartment houses, and we saw quite a few women in western clothes. We went to a nice Italian place for lunch and then did some shopping. We continued to the conference center and heard a very interesting talk about the role of tempreature and pressure gradients in the formation of the continents and in the formation of life.
After saying goodbye to Irith, we went with Jaikumar to a Chinese-Thai restaurant (his family had left already in the morning). The food was surprisingly good but the experience was quite bizarre - the restaurant was completely empty, decorated in a very garish fashion and there were about a dozen south-east Asian waiters with very poor English hovering over us.
We packed most of our stuff last night, and left the hotel after breakfast today. The flight to Mumbai left on time, so we arrived at the International terminal at Mumbai around 1pm, for a midnight flight to the US... We are used to sitting around by now, so we did. Now we are all checked in and sitting in the business lounge (those Continental Gold Elite cards are useful!). Seems the plane will be at least 20 minutes late - let's hope that not much more than that!
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