Mysore, Karnataka, India (by the kids)

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On the 10th we went on a night train to Mysore. I am going to have fun at Mysore because my mum told me that there was an aquarium and a zoo. I like going to aquariums and zoos because I like looking at animals. In the night train, we had a little bed each, me and Emma had beds high up but they were so close together that I could just step across to each other’s bed. I did not sleep well, I’m not sure any one did. All I know is that I fell asleep somehow.
On the 11th ,we were still on the train, we were getting off at 11am, and it was 7am, 4 more hours. When we did get to the place, we went to our hotel, Yashita mansion (it wasn’t actually a mansion it’s just a big hotel). When we got to our room we loved it, it was huge, and it had a kitchen (I’m missing food from home). There was two different rooms to sleep in, (I like that because me and Emma can stay up as long as we want without being told to go to bed). I liked the hotel, it’s probably the biggest we’ve been in so far. When we settled in we decided to go to the palace\museum. On the in website it said that it would cost 120 rupees to enter (rupees are Indian money) (10 Australian dollar is 547.30 rupees). It cost 120 for someone who lived the, but it cost 1000 for a foreigner, but that’s still only 18.27 Australian dollars, not very much. When we got in, the palace was huge, I really liked it, but they didn’t have many artifacts, it was manly just showing the palace the way it was. At the end of the day we stayed there because there was a show called light and sound, to be honest it was mainly sound. But whatever, you came here to hear what I have to say, so I’ll tell you. They were shining lights on the palace and there were speaker talking, the bad thing is that it was not in English, sad. When we went home we slept.
On the 12th, today is the day, were to the aquarium and the zoo on the same day, it’s going to be great. I woke up early so that I’d be ready to go when we needed to go, problem, I woke up about two hours early. So I got ready, and began my two hour wait. Two hours in the future, we were about to leave, I am very excited, were going to the zoo first, I can’t wait. When we got there we tried to buy our ticket, but they had to check our bags why, I will explain shortly. To force people to not litter, we had to pay ten rupees to bring each plastic item in, and if we bring them out, we get a refund. When we finished all of that, we went in. The place was huge there was loads of animals there were some I never have seen before, it was cool. Here are some of the animals we saw, rhinoceros, elephants, giraffes, deer, horn bills, lions, tigers, monkeys, snakes, turtles, zebras, cheaters, black panthers, squirrels, wolves, gorillas, chimps and bears etc etc. A lot of animals, we saw all of them and even more. On the sign it said there was otters, and I really like otters, but when we got there, there was no otters, sad. Whatever the animals were cool, after that we went to the aquarium. The aquarium was pretty small I have to admit, but it's better than the Townsville aquarium, they had some pretty cool fish. They even had a tunnel, but the bad thing is that the tunnel was tiny, well it was long but the water was skinny so the big fish couldn’t move around that much. There was a toad fish that I named dooby, me and Emma were following dooby around were ever It went. You can see dooby in the pictures. There were also arapaima and alligator gar, they were big. When we finished we went home and slept.
On the 13th we played on our computer then we did our blog till nearly lunch, then we got a tuktuk to a temple. The temple was on a hill, it was a long drive from our hotel, and to be honest, the temple wasn’t really worth it. We came at lunch time and the temple was closing soon, so everyone was rushing, there was lots of people, and we were being rushed, so we didn’t see much at all. It was in, look for 0.01 of a second and then out. As I said, it was lunch time so we had to get some lunch. When we went to lunch, we didn’t know what we picked, when we got our food, it turned out it was rice with stuff in it. We ate it then went to find stuff to do. After we finished we searched up stuff to do near us, dad found this cow statue thing, we didn’t know what else we would do so we went there. The path to go there was long and had lots of monkeys, especially at the statue, when we got there we looked at the statue, it was huge, like 100 times my size, it was ginormous. After that we went back to hotel to sleep, and sleep is what we did.
On the 14th we decided to go to a cathedral, we took a tuktuk to the place. When we got there it turned out to be worth it, the cathedral was huge, it wasn’t that old either, it was only made in 1933. I can’t explain much about it because it’s hard to, I’m not good at explaining these sort of things. After that we decided to go to a museum. We wanted to get some exercise so we decided to walk there (well actually mum wanted to, I didn’t) it was a 45 minute walk. The museum was called the regional museum of natural history, this museum was different than any others we’ve been to so far. It was about the evolution of the world and animals, not that much about humankind. When we got there, it turned out to be free to get in, yay, and it was a really good museum. In the museum they talked about giant squirrels, I like squirrels, so of course I wanted to see them. When we left, we went to a walking path along the river, while walking along we came up to a bridge, the bridge was leading out to an island that had a butterfly park on it, so we went there. It was a really nice place, there were butterfly everywhere, it was cool. When we went back down the bridge, we kept walking, we walked for a while, and then I saw a watch tower that we could go up and look for birds. We started walking towards it, then we saw an otter on land, then I noticed three thing, one, its tail looked different, two, it was too far out of the water, three, IT WAS A GIANT SQUIRREL. (😊😊😊😊😊). This is amazing, the day we find out they exist, the day we see one, that’s crazy. There about as big as possums, but they look exactly like a squirrel, after that we kept walking. We found a little place to sit down it was nice, then dad saw something moving in the tree, these were dad’s exact words “I see a monkey,” it took me about ten minutes to see it, but eventually I saw it. It was a big monkey ,we looked at it for a bit then went back to the hotel to have dinner and sleep.
On the 15th I did my blog for a bit then I played for a little bit, at 10:30am we ordered a taxi to take us to a Holi festival, my mum will explain what Holi is (I think). I’ll explain I little bit, Holi is where you chuck coloured powder at each other and party. When we got there it turned out to be very noisy, we went in, got our powder, and the fun began. I scooped out some powder and chucked It at my mum, then I just kept chucking and chucking. When we were out of powder we started dancing because there was music blaring out from everywhere, it was loud but fun. We danced for hours, it was fun, I was buggered at the end. After a while, we decided to go to the hotel, so we ordered a taxi and waited for it to arrive then promised we wouldn’t get the taxi dirty because we still had colours on us. When we got home, we had dinner then went to sleep. Night night.
On the 16th, we started the day by finishing our blog because were leaving today, well tonigh, were leaving at 11:40pm, it’s going to be a long day. We’re going on a night train it going to be tiering. So, we did our blog for a while, when I finished I played on my computer, then packed. Where going to go to Udupi.
Andrew, World renowned for blogging and videogaming, leader of TRALOA, ex world ruler, wanter of lollies and money.
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To be continued…

Hello again peeps. I am here to more about the trip.
Monday the 10th we took a night train to Mysore. We had one bed each. There was someone who slept with us. They slept under us then it was mum and dad. At the very top Andrew and I were sleeping. It was like a triple bed instead of a double bed. I did not sleep well at all. It took about three to four hours to get to sleep. There was someone on the other side of the wall I was. Either they were banging on the wall, or they had a bag rubbing on it.
Tuesday the 11th we finished our train ride and went to our hotel. I love the room. it is ginormous. Then we went to the palace. It was big and beautiful. I was expecting it to be bigger. On the inside there were lots of pictures and paintings. There was an outside place were there where llloootttsss of plants. Then we went back home to rest a little. Then we went back to the palace. Again. Because there was a light & sound show. To be honest, it was not the best. I think there could have been better. There could have been more lights on it. Because they were not all on at the same time. The last 5 minutes were the best. My favourite part was at the end where it all lit up. All of it.
Wednesday the 12th we went to the zoo and aquarium. at the zoo. We saw giraffes and elephants. The giraffes were roaming around and eating. The elephants had chains all over their legs so they could barely walk. It was horrible. I feel so sorry the animals. That zoo gave them no space. Some of them had no water at all. There were gorillas and monkeys as well. I got to see a meerkat for the first time. There were also hippos. Andrew told you all most all the animals, but he missed some. Then we went to the aquarium. There were ginormous fish and tiny fish. It was awesome but small. Then we came across a fish that we called dooby. Dooby was a great fish, we followed him around the aquarium for a while. I love dooby with all my heart. (PS I miss him already). It was a wonderful experience, but I still feel very sad for the animals who didn’t get treated well. Then shopping. We got pasta, egg, yoghurt, chocolate. Ehh, and other stuff that. And as you would probably guess we had pasta and egg with a good old lot of cheese for dinner.
Thursday the 13th we did some blog, then we played on our computer. In the afternoon, we went to a temple, and it was packed. We almost got split apart. It was almost closing time, so everybody rushed. Then we walked around a bit. There was a big cow statue, so we went to see it. My biggest fear was all the monkeys around it (if you did not know yet, I hate monkeys a lot). After that it was home and games. We did the drawing contest. It was fun but stressing. It was stressing because we only had two minutes (mum edit: we had 20 minutes). But in the end, it was fun.
Friday the 14th we went to a big cathedral. When I say big, I mean big. There was the story of Jesus on the wall. But there was also an underground area called a crypt. The crypt is where they kept important stuff for the religion. Then we went on a long walk all the way to a museum. I am going to tell you about it soon but first I shall tell you about how much cows there are. There are lots of cows. There are cows on about every street. Now on to talking about the museum. There were two paths, so we decided on one of them. It was so hard to decide so we called on the magic finger. The first tunnel we took was all about fish and under the sea stuff. It was cool. In the second tunnel, it was all about how the world stared. I would tell you more, but I have a bad memory at this sort of stuff. There will probably be a mum edit saying something like this: she has an incredibly good memory especially at the memory game (mum edit: very true!). But does not have a good memory when we are playing remember how the world started game. Surprising there was not. Then we went to a park, because there were one right next to the museum. We saw lots of birds. it was cool. We saw a giant squirrel. There about the size of a possum. We played on a playground we saw. Then back home.
Saturday the 15th we went to the Holi celebration. It was amazing. I loved it. I got dirty as. We threw lots of colours at each other. My shirt is still stained. Good-bye.
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