After breakfast while heading to the beach we were stopped by Waseem who gave us "valuable" potential prize tickets. I opened mine and won a free beer, while Sue ended up with the possibility of winning one of the "grand prizes" and at the very least a free case of beer. Sue who is always very skeptical of this kind of thing could not resist the lure of a free case of beer.
Conveniently a cab just happened to show up and we took the ride to Baga beach about 5 minutes up the road. After filling in a registration form we were told that there were no English speaking presenters and we were given a case of beer and a taxi slip back to our hotel. No harm, no foul.
In the late afternoon we met Asheem and Mishka who I had met a couple of days earlier. We sat on the beach had some snacks and drinks while watching the sunset. They were recently married (arranged) and this was one of the many topics that we discussed. In their culture things are slowly changing and instead of the parents making the arrangements a service takes care of arranging the marriage based on their profiles. The brides parents then make an offer to the potential groom as to what they will give him to marry their daughter. (insert your own jokes here)
We had a late dinner at Golden Eye bar and grill enjoying the king prawn curry and rice.
It's now time for a shower, some aloe Vera cream and bed. Enjoy your morning everyone.
Sounds like a far cry from Delhi and your friend the puke bucket.
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