The mumbai adventures : day 2

After a good nights sleep i got up early as we had to attend the wedding of my relative and by 630 we were alll dressed up and were waiting for the bus that was chartered to pick us up. It did come on time anhd we began hour 45 minute long journey to the venue. The same distance would have taken us 2 hours during peak time. What fascinated me about the roads of mumbai were the use of interlock tiles which are used primarily for footpaths and in the compound premises; majority of the roads had these in place and were functioning very well but later i found out they were custom made heavy duty tiles and not the ones which we used for our backyard. once we reached the mutt at wadala , there was this all familiar sight of people settled in footpaths with concrete walled house made for themselves and surprisingly enough every 10*7 feet house had a color tv with cable connection, electrical meter,fan, most had refrigerators, some even had air conditioner!!!only thing they lacked was a place to wash stuff for which they resort to the sides of the roads and toilets for which they find some bushes nearby or do it very early in the morning before sun rises and exposes them. terrible the way they are living but believe me they have no complaints or regrets about how they are living! supposedly the 'mumbai spirit'.we then decided to check out Dadar market and we had a tough time cos it was december 6 and apparently it wa the death anniversary of father of constitution dr.B.R.Ambedkar and his samadhi happens to be in dadar! we had the world famous Batata vada at Shri Krishna and it was worth its fame. we then returned back to the hall.marriage got over and a grand buffet lunch was served which was really lip smacking and finger licking good(as good as kfc) . from there we had to go to kal;yan in thana district for which we hired a innova and took to the highway in less than a hour and a half we reached our destination passing through 4 tolls which cost 150 bucks !! but no regrets because the roads were worth the toll. after refreshing we proceeded to see the birla temple and ganapati temple at titwala. both were nice one was more architectural in appeal and latter more spiritual.we came back home and had homely dinner and hit the beds.

Day rating : 8.5/10