Tailors, Swimming Pools, Toilets, Warli

Today we had a chilled🧘‍♀️ start to our morning, this is because we were able to take things at more of our own pace, in contrast to our previous early mornings🔆. A few of us started our day with an early swimming session accompanied by a cheeky frog 🐸 others sleeping💤 until breakfast turned into ‘maitri’ meaning ‘morning snack’. During breakfast, those of us who had purchased saris and Punjabis, had the tailors Rekha and Ajay measure them respectively. This will enable us to enjoy a perfectly fitted, brand new outfit, which we will be returned in time for our Indian evening on Saturday. After eating and measuring we had our first official session of the day labelled Fun in the pool🏊‍♀️’, we had immense fun splashing each other while racing to win🏆 a multitude of different games and watching synchronised swimming performances. The overall favourite decided by the many was ‘Sharks and Minnows’. The accompanying playlist 🎵 to our games was a blessing to our ears 👂.

 Rebecca xxx

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  1. GreenfieldApril 11, 2019 at 8:26 AM

    Delighted to hear all of your news and the details of your busy days. Thrilled that you are having such amazing experiences that will last you for a lifetime. Cannot wait to see the pictures!
    Enjoy the rest of you stay - Big hugs all around

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  2. VeniceApril 11, 2019 at 9:40 AM

    Glad you’ve all had a chilled day to relax and enjoy the lovely pool....looks very inviting. Looking forward to pics!
    Will you be having cooking lessons, and if so, Alice, please can you learn how to cook a dhansak?!
    Vxx

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