While in Lucknow, on holiday, our toddlers continued to awake at their normal times. You would have thought that sleeping in a little play tent would have clued them into the reality that we were having a respite and more sleep would be appreciated. That was a pie in the sky dream.
So up at 6 and out the doors of our hotel at 8, a good two hours before the sleepy city would awake. Nothing would be open except perhaps a small coffee shop with special drinks unavailable in our city. Glory Be! Off we went "gooming." Again I cannot express my delight enough over Lucknow. Lovely havelis hanging over small tuc shops underneath. Really quite breathtaking. Under all the veneer there is a darkness however. Our state in India if it was its own country would be the fifth most populated country in the world. I cannot put into words the density of the population here. With people there is, thanks to Adam, sin. With sin darkness of all sorts. Injustice, violence, inequalities, hurt, poverty, crime both petty and gross. The mafia reigns in some impossibly dark and real way. I seldom see it except in passing Scorpio vehicles with dark tinted glass, the transportation of choice for the UP Mob.
There is a new movie being released in August by Bollywood, which produces way more movies than Hollywood, about the mafia in our state. The male star is quite well known and famous. As we walked along the street we inadvertently walked through a shooting of a scene from the movie to come. We will not be featured but we did stick around to watch the flags fly and the cars to go through their intricate daring chase scene. Abe, a true daddy's boy, delighted in all the revving engines.
Here is the star as shot by Chad over many a starstruck head!
So up at 6 and out the doors of our hotel at 8, a good two hours before the sleepy city would awake. Nothing would be open except perhaps a small coffee shop with special drinks unavailable in our city. Glory Be! Off we went "gooming." Again I cannot express my delight enough over Lucknow. Lovely havelis hanging over small tuc shops underneath. Really quite breathtaking. Under all the veneer there is a darkness however. Our state in India if it was its own country would be the fifth most populated country in the world. I cannot put into words the density of the population here. With people there is, thanks to Adam, sin. With sin darkness of all sorts. Injustice, violence, inequalities, hurt, poverty, crime both petty and gross. The mafia reigns in some impossibly dark and real way. I seldom see it except in passing Scorpio vehicles with dark tinted glass, the transportation of choice for the UP Mob.
There is a new movie being released in August by Bollywood, which produces way more movies than Hollywood, about the mafia in our state. The male star is quite well known and famous. As we walked along the street we inadvertently walked through a shooting of a scene from the movie to come. We will not be featured but we did stick around to watch the flags fly and the cars to go through their intricate daring chase scene. Abe, a true daddy's boy, delighted in all the revving engines.
Here is the star as shot by Chad over many a starstruck head!
Director talking with the star. We also saw the star and a villain waving
guns about with great dramatic power!
The star is in black.
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