Jaipur, Rajasthan, India by the kids

On the 13th we arrived at the Jaipur train station and trust me it wasn’t pleasant, there were people everywhere, it was nearly impossible to get off. There were people just trying to push past me, trying to get on. It would have been easier if they let the people out and then came in, but they didn’t. When we did get off, we went to get a tuktuk to go to our hotel, when we got there, the room had a two people bed a bunk bed. Of course, me and Emma had the bunk bed, why wouldn’t we. We put our bags down then we went out to do our walk around to look at what’s around us. There’s not that many restaurants, there’s lots of cars, motor bikes and tuktuk’s so it’s hard to cross the street. After our walk around, we went to find another tuktuk to go to a park, the park has a huge entrance, it’s a big gate that is decorated very nicely. When we got inside we saw an army band, we wanted to see them playing, sadly they weren’t playing at the moment. In the middle there was a water fountain that was called the musical fountain, it had a light show, the lights weren’t very strong so we couldn’t see that well. When we left we went listen to the army band they were really good. After that we went home and slept.
On the 14th IT’S MY BIRTHDAY I’m extremely excited I am ten, ten T. E. N. 10, TEN!!! Double digits, I am in the double digits age. These are the emotions that I am feeling, excitement, happiness, joy, exuberance, exhilaration, excitement, pleasure, inpatient (it’s still six years till I get a car), and excitement. To celebrate my birthday we are doing, (duh duh duuuuh) I don’t know yet it’s a secret. We left on a tuktuk to go there but when we were going to get there it was not going to be open yet, so what did we do, we stopped at a place bought a cake then kept going. When we were on the way there I saw a sign: fun kingdom, hmmm, interesting. Then, all of a sudden we did a turn, and guess what we saw, yep a castle looking thing with a big sign that said FUN KINGDOM. When we got there it was closed till 11am so we sat down on the grass and ate the cake. When it did open we went to the first ride, it was a bridge that had a cylinder a round it that spun, it felt really weird. After that we went to a few others, they weren’t that fun, but they still were fun. Some of the rides didn’t look that well-constructed, some of them we had to wait for ages, like there was a fun one that supposedly needed lots of people so I could only go on it once. And there was this really fun looking one that I couldn’t go on because it was an adult ride, the annoying thing is that at the same place I went on different adult rides? It depends on the person running it because they change over the time. There was this big one that they were working on, but when we left, it was running, but I think we all agree that I’m not sure anybody would want to go on a ride that was just welded .When we left we activated the back-up plan, and boy was it good, the place was a big building that said hop on\, not that interesting till you get inside. Inside there were arcade games, a rope course, rock wall, a big trampoline area, cricket simulator, bowling, bumper cars and a little ball pit. First we went over to the counter to get a card that would have a lot of points, then to the ARCADE! When we came in we saw a fishing game, it’s like the one at kingpin except that it’s longer, has extra stuff, and you can get more time. The extra stuff are like I can get two hooks, go down to the bottom and the best one is called jackpot it were if you get it you get transported to a place where there is only really good fish, it’s awesome. After that I played a few other arcade games, then I went on to the trampoline area. With the card I can get in without paying I just use the points. The place is like twenty levels up from king pin, it had a bridge above foam blocks. Theres two big sticks that people hit each other with and try to knock them off, I beat Emma every time. After that I went to other trampolines, on one of them I could jump nearly four meters, it felt so cool, in the same place there was a little a zip line, about twenty meters long. After that we went to do bowling, mum was winning a first then dad caught up and ended up having the win. I didn’t get very high of a score but let me tell you two thing it was normally used by adults so there weren’t any ball that were the right weight for me, and the worst bit is the track was RIGGED. How do I know? Well, every time one of us bowled right down the middle always at the same place it started turning, and every ball never stayed straight. After that I went to the batting cage, at first I only did three overs, then dad had his turn and did six overs, no fair, so what did I do, I played my six overs. Am I done yet, NOPE! So, when I finished my batting I went to the rope course, to be honest it wasn’t that good all the good bits I wasn’t allowed to go, and they had a bike on a metal thing that I had to use it as something to balance not the way a proper bike gets used. After that we played a little more games, we earned lots of tickets, and when we left we still had points on our card, so that means WE HAVE TO COME BACK. When we got back to our hotel we decided to watch a movie the movie was going to be my choice, and guess what I picked, SPONGE BOB. My mum doesn’t like sponge bob at all, so I don’t get to watch it often, but since it’s my birthday they can’t say no to me. At the end of the movie, we were all tired, so we went to bed. Night night.
On the 15th we went to the city palace, we got a private tour because there’s a bit of the roof the palace that people can only see if they have a tour. The tour was really expensive want to know why? Because the king still lives there that’s why. The palace is also home to the biggest silver objects in the world they are both the same size, and they are two big pots. They can hold 1800L each and weight 242.7 kg, also going up to an amazing size of 1.6 meters tall. We went in where they live (there not there at the moment) the guide told us that if there flying one flag that means there not here and if there flying two flags that means there here. We went to three rooms that still get used, the first one had lots of blue painting all over it, the second has lots of mirrors and if there’s a candle it reflects everywhere, and the third is a room is like a meeting room that is really comfortable. My mum has asked me to describe one of the rooms and I choose the third. The room has a big soft mattress on the floor and three chairs made out of pillows, we could sit on them, and they were nice, I understand why the king would like it. There was green and red glass on the wall, the glass was from Italy because when it was built they didn’t make glass, so they had to import it. When we left we went to a place called Janta Manta the Jantar Mantar is a collection of 19 astronomical instruments, it is home to the second biggest sun dial in the world, the Samrat Yantra. It is 27meters high and is on a 27 degree angle, we could literally see the shadow moving, this makes it more amazing, it was built in the 18th century, amazing. When we left that we went to see another palace called the Hawa Mahal it’s a palace known for having lots of windows, there are also lots of big areas to walk through, lots of rooms, most of them didn’t have a roof for some reason. When we finished we went back to the hotel to sleep. Snore snore.
On the 16th we are going to go to a palace, the palace is called amber palace, it was built in 1592, we had to drive there it’s 9 kilo meters away. When we got there we had the option to go by jeep, feet or elephant we chose feet here are the reasons why. We didn’t want to pay for the jeep and we don’t want the elephants to be having to be walking all day they should be in their natural habitat, doing what normal elephants do, plus I don’t really want to ride an elephant. When we finished walking up we went to buy our tickets then we went to the temple that was on the way up when we got to the proper palace we looked around and it was beautiful. The carvings were really cool. There was this big open area that had a really nice garden, there was also a fountain, well two fountains one was big and the other one was small but dome-like. After that we went to have a look at some of the other rooms, we were just wandering around, I like wandering, that’s the way I like exploring things. There was a tunnel going to a fort called Jaigarh fort, it very close to where we are, so we decided to walk there. The fort is very old and in it, it has the biggest cannon on wheels in the world. When we got to the top we had a look around the fort it was pretty cool, it had some look out points there was a really good view from one of them. There was also a cannon foundry they made lots of cannons there, the entire thing was oxen powered. We looked around and we saw on the walls of the fort there were marks, dad read some where that the people on duty would sharpen their swords on the rock. After that we went to have lunch then we went home to do some blog. We did that till 7:30pm then we played some board games then went to bed. Sweet dreams.
On the 17th we did more blog because we didn’t finish yesterday, we did that till nearly lunch time, then we went out to have lunch. I had a delicious egg curry it wasn’t the best I ever had but it was yum. We were going to go to a fort a newer one though, but we didn’t go because we agreed to go to a really big shopping centre, there are two reasons why. One: because it’s really hot (it’s the middle of the day) and two: I need some new thongs, I’m wearing shoes right now. The shopping centre was very big, but it was also new so there wasn’t that many shops there were still people moving in lots of the floors offices on them so they weren’t any use. We didn’t find any shoes that we wanted, they were only selling crocs, and I don’t like crocs (no offence). When we came back to the hotel we went to watch a movie then to bed. Sleepy sleepy.
On the 19th we did a bit of our blog again because I write a lot and I haven’t finished, when we need to leave I wasn’t done yet so I was going to have to catch up later. We were going to go to a museum, the museum had a mummy, ancient Egyptian mummy, not parent mummy. There were lots of things in the museum It had all sorts of different types of things, all from different ages it sounded cool. When we got there we were wondering how much it would cost to get in, but when we went to the entrance it was a special day so it turned out to be free. When we got Inside mum told us out of the whole museum we had to find one thing to talk about and explain, when we went in the first thing we saw were giant carpets, and their patterns were amazing, and they were all hand crafted. There were lots of interesting stuff it was so hard to choose what to explain. When we got to the mummy it was cool it had the bandages around it and some cloth, what I was the most amazed about was how well it was preserved. Near the end of the museum I found what I want to talk about, it was stamps they use on notes, money notes, they used it back then when the notes were paper. The stamps had pictures of people and they had notes going up to 500 rupees, with is only $9 Aus, not much. There were also one as little as 25 rupees which is 46c Aus.
Remember on the 14th how I told you we still had points on the card for hop on, well now’s the time to come back. When we got there we went back to the arcade, then to the trampoline area, then lunch, then to a big slide thing, then arcade again, then all of a sudden we were out of points, sad. At dinner we were looking for a restaurant that we were supposed to go to on my birthday but we didn’t. For some reason we coulden’t find the restaurant, it’s because we were following google maps, in India, google maps has 97% of the time led us wrong and 3% led us right (and I’m being nice). Then dad looked at the picture and it was of the building next door. When we went in I figured out that it was a Japanese restaurant and sushi is my favourite food. Me and Emma had sushi, mum and dad had loads of dumplings, I also had a delicious fried rice. When we were full we still had food left, it was yum, then we paid and went to home to sleep. Night night.
On the 19th we are having a blog and schoolwork day, tonight we’re going to have our last dinner in Jaipur and were going to leave tomorrow. We’re going to go to Agra, Agra has the Taj Mahal. So good by Jaipur I think this might be my favourite stop in india.
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Andrew (10 years old)

Hi, welcome back to the blog. I am Emma Bridson here on the blog channel. It is going to be a long one this time, we’re staying here for seven days. I hope you like your trip. Sunday the 13th. We went on a train all the way from Jodhpur to Jaipur. It was roughly six hours. When we got there, it was packed. When I was trying to get out, there were people trying to get in. they were people shouting. There were people pushing. Urrhhhhh. by that moment I was over people. I wanted to shout out “people, you are never going to make it into the train if you push. You can’t get on when there are still people trying to get off.” We went to our new hotel. it’s crap. The internet sucks. The hot water sucks. Sometimes the water runs out completely. Everything sucks. Then in the evening we went to the Jawahar circle. We saw a marching band. Then we saw the music fountain. Yes. It’s a special time of year. IT’S ANDREWS BIRTHDAY. Monday the 14th. We went to have CAKE. After that we went the fun kingdom. There were lots of rides. But they made us wait and WAIT and WAIT!!! and WWAAIITT!!! It was a bit of a letdown. But not to worry, mum and dad had a back up plan. We went to Hop up. They had video games. A trampoline world. Bowling. Cricket. Rope course. It was paradise. We had the time of our life there. You’re probably wondering how mum and dad did, and I will tell you. It’s pretty simple. There was a massage chair. It was cool. In the trampoline world, there was this green spinning thing that spun, and you had to jump over it. I tried but fell over it and very badly hurt my arm. (Luckly it was only a sprain. A bad one though). We stayed up for a movie because it was Andrew’s birthday. You can probably guess what it was. SpongeBob.
Tuesday the 15th. We went to the city palace. We took a private tour. There were lots of blue rooms. there was a room that was blue and had a big flower on the ceiling. There was this room that had lots of mirrors. It is my favourite because if you close all the windows, and turn on candles, it lights up. Then we went to Jantar Manta. It’s an astronomy place. And there is the biggest sundial in the world there. It is 27 meters high. it is meant to predict the movements of the sun, moon and planets. The name “Jantar Manta” is over 200 years old. After that, we went to the Hawa Mahal. It’s a palace that looks like a pyramid from the front. And guess what, the women had to look out of these tiny little windows. AND THAT REALLY PISSED ME OFF! The women stayed inside all day every day. If the women wanted to listen to meetings, they stayed behind a curtain because they couldn’t be seen. There were lots of steps. There were little viewpoints.
Wednesday the 16th. We went to the Amber palace. We took a tuktuk to have breakfast first. And then went to visit the Amber palace. We saw poor elephants taking people up the hill. We didn’t take one, we decided to walk. We agreed that it would be cool to ride an elephant, but it is not their natural habitat. Apparently, there was 700 steps. But that was said by a tuktuk driver. It was more like 182 steps. They were just trying to get us to go in their tuktuk. When we got up it looked beautiful. There were gardens, there was an outside room that had mirrors. We saw a room where they bathed. There was a temple. Then we took a tunnel all the way from the Amber palace to the Jaigarh fort. There we saw canons, workshops, viewpoints and more. We saw where people sharpen their weapons and I said if I was there, I would play tik tack toe. We walked around a lot and then we went to a restaurant called 3 brothers for dinner. After that we played boardgames.
Thursday the 17th. We did blog and schoolwork and then rest. Then we went to a big mall and me, and Andrew got three scoops of ice-cream. The three flavours I got was mint, cookies and cream and ferry floss.
Friday the 18th. We went to the albert hall museum. It was chockoblock with students. When we first got in, we got a red dot on our forehead representing the 3rd eye. (we also got a lolly). There was one thing that really caught my attention. It was a cup. A cup that had a swan on it. there were flowers and the swan was sitting on them. It was gorgeous. The swan was white. The flowers were green, pink and blue. It is my favourite because I like swans, I like flowers, I like colours, and I just like it. When we were looking at stuff, some kids came over to chat. After that we went to hop up. (Which I mentioned on the 14th, 4 lines down and 10-word in. we still had money to burn). We played the fishing game, the bouncing game, the claw machine, dodgem cars, the trapline world, kid city, cricket and a ball throwing game. In the claw machine I won two dolls. I kept the pink one and gave another girl a yellow one. And for dinner we went to a Japanese restaurant. (which served sushi). It was delicious. I loved it.
Saturday we did schoolwork and blog.
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