Flights, Scams & Premature Ejections

Our flight to mumbai was as expected long and uneventful, although Jon and I watched The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Good movie! After a tedious 15 hours and the numbing of our behinds we finally saw the lights of Mumbai down below. It was hilarious to see Jon's reaction as we walked outside the airport and were hit with a wave of humid heat. My aunt and uncle recieved us outside and we headed to a restaurant called Sagar to eat. After that we headed for our hotel and parted ways with my relatives. So after a relatively sleepless night, thanks to the jet lag and the constant sound of planes taking off (note to self: never book a hotel close to the airport) we would be finally headed for our final destination.

Haha this is where the fun part begins. So we get out of the hotel and take a rickshaw to the Santa Cruz Domestic Airport. We definitely overpaid and got off at the wrong terminal! While we start walking to the right terminal a guy starts hassling us and says the terminal we want to go to is far away (even though we can see it from where we are). For some stupid reason we take his offer for a ride to the terminal. Bad idea! Haha within seconds he tells us we have to pay him 500 rupees (5times the price and 1/100th the distance). Jon and I immediately look at each other and ask them to stop the car right away. We get our bags out and start walking towards the terminal like the original plan. Turns out that the terminal is literally less than a 100 meters away (felt pretty stupid at this point). Note to self: don't get into random cabs!

So we check in, eat on the airport food court and get ready to board our flight to Jodhpur, Rajasthan (our final destination to IIT). After an hour of flying we begin our descent. We get ready to leave the plane and I have a bad feeling for some reason. So I ask the flight attendant if we have landed in Jodhpur. Turns out we are in a completely different city (Udaipur). Phewf! That would have been terrible! Getting off at the wrong city would be the absolute last thing we need after traveling two days straight. So we get back to our seats and continue on....finally we are in Jodhpur (the right one this time haha).