Mendhi

This may be the last post for a while as today is the last day I will have a computer at home...  I know, so sad - but look forward to a more when I return home in two weeks!  The other day my cousin and I went in search of Mendhi.  We were told there were some boys on Devaragas Rd near K.R. Circle and were drawn a map and everything.  Devaragas Rd is like the busiest shopping area of the city center in Mysore, but we had our map.  According to the map and our reference these boys would be sitting just down from Food World on Devaragas Rd at the end of the street where it meets K.R. Circle.  First, the rickshaw driver has no idea where Food World is and drops us in the middle of the block.  We head off toward K.R. Circle looking for Food World and our artists.  Get to the circle and nothing - walk all the way around the circle, nothing.  The circle is a huge roundabout with several corners, we check up each block from the circle, nothing.  We begin to head back up Devaragas along the other side of the street from where we began - at this point frustrated, tired (we had already spent hours at the pool and stopped by a silks shop to pick up an order that was not yet ready.)  A long day was turning into a fruitless day.  Just as we were both about to give up, we decided to walk just a bit further and TaDa!  There they were, basically directly a cross the street from where the rickshaw driver had dropped us in the first place.  Now, check the vids...