Momos versus Perogies (Nov 10)

We may be taking this slowing down and relaxing thing a bit too far... or are we?
Maybe we haven't been away long enough yet and still feel that we need to be "doing" all the time. I guess that remains to be seen but regardless, today we didn't get up until noon!! (Scandalous!)

We had a small snack and a quick email update and headed to another yoga class with Vijay. Yoga in India (so far) is really different in some ways from yoga at home. The poses are pretty much the same, it's more the approach. We start in relaxation while Vijay gives a guided relaxation in a sing song kind of voice. Then we do some rather callisthenic type warm ups, then sun salutations, then relaxation, breath exercises and then final relaxation. Vijay does another sing song relaxation and chant and you're done! It was another excellent class.

There were some young people in the class from the US we were speaking to afterward - one girl was complaining that since she started running her hamstrings were always tight. We didn't think she'd be up for the "stop running" solution so Brad (being Brad) showed her a great stretch she could do with a partner.

We headed back up the hill and stopped for soup and potato momos. The momos are Tibetan and are alot like perogies (without the fried onions and sour cream). We did a bit of shopping at the Green Shop to buy some boiled water. They sell boiled water in an effort to reduce the waste produced by all the plastic bottles. While we were there we also saw that they were selling notebooks made from recycled paper (made by Tibetan refugees) and lots of herbals creams and oils. I picked up some hair oil (makes your hair really soft and you don't need conditioner) and some cold cream. Since it's getting on to winter, the air is getting really dry so the cold cream will come in handy.

Charlie's Angels was on HBO! I know, bad movie but it was entertaining anyway.