The most romantic city

Ale and I woke up bright and early (6 am!) to have our final helpings of idly and coconut chutney and say our goodbyes to The Thackers. It was sad.

We took a cab to the airport and took a flight from Bangalore to Delhi to Udaipur. It was nice to bypass 50 hours of buses and arrive in Udaipur 9 hours later, door to door. We made our way to our hostel in Lal Ghat and I got to see just how much shopping there is in in Udaipur. I'm so excited for tomorrow!

So our hostel was nothing to write home about and so we went searching for something a little but cleaner (princess Lauren). I just can't sleep in a bed with an obviously never cleaned comforter and no clean sheet in between me and said comforter. We went to a couple other similar places with similar prices but that I agreed would be better and then we walked by a pretty hotel. I told Ale we shouldn't go in, because it was obviously too expensive, but she insisted we find out the price. The price was definitely above our budget (not hard) but the guy was trying to drop the price for us and Ale somehow cut it in half. I was sold room unseen, but we went to see the room anyways and it was so pretty. I wanted to forfeit our rupees for the hostel we had already paid for tonight, but decided I needed some more character building. So 9 am tomorrow I'm dragging Ae out of bed and we are going to our princess palace in Udaipur!

Since today is valentines day, we wanted to go out for a special diner, especially considering we are in such a romantic city. The biggest palace in the state of Rajasthan is in Udaipur, called City Palace, and we decided tonight we would have a special fancy dinner there. Unfortunately we called and all the reservations were full, but we made one for tomorrow night. It should be pretty romantic. So our next option was to go to the rooftop restaurant at our princess palace. And we fell in love with our princess palace even more. It had started raining, so the rooftop restaurant (overlooking the city with Lake Palace and City Palace) was out of commission, but they set up several tables on the floor below, unfortunately without the view. Then the rain stopped a little bit, and so they set up a little table lit with candles for Ale and I on the roof. With our umbrellas in hand, we got to enjoy the beautiful view and enjoy our wine and chicken briyani and malai kofta! It really was perfect. I'm excited to get to eat breakfast up there tomorrow morning.

Tomorrow we plan to tour the city palace and crystal museum, take a boat ride to go see the Lake Palace from afar, and get some shopping in. Now time to get a good nights rest!