My visit is rapidly coming to a close, so last night a few of the team members took me out for dinner after work. We went to the nearby Ramada Inn, which has a tiger-themed restaurant called Tiger Trail, with tiger stripe upholstry, tiger murals, cartoon tiger faces on the napkins, tiger-striped dishes, tiger paw cutouts on the menu covers… you get the idea. I’d been there for the lunch buffet a couple of weeks ago, but last night the place was empty except for us, so no buffet. We mostly had trays of appetizers, along with a few beers. Strangely, this place had no Indian beer, so our only options were bottles of Carlsberg or Budweiser. I couldn’t believe I was drinking a Bud, let alone drinking a Bud in India. I hope nobody finds out about this…
It was a good time, with lots of talk about snow, and how no snow is a good thing, and why I wasn’t delaying my return until May. Afterward we had an after-dinner paan from a roadside paan vendor. Yum!
