Woke up, ate, spent a lot of time relaxing, reading, doing a bit of journaling and blog work. At 3 we went out for an optional hike that everyone actually decided to go on.

Our guide was... not the best we've had. He was, shall we say, energetic. Also less than fully informative, and definitely worried about his work. He made sure we all took a picture with him and asked us to send it over to him. He also badgered Denny a bit to get Denny to take him as a guide tomorrow. The walk itself was about 50% along the side of a highway, though we did see a lot of rhesus macaques, black-faced monkeys, and a few deer. Then we headed down a little bit into a somewhat more natural area. Sadly, even in the parks there's a lot of trash. Nate tried to pick it up and was IMMEDIATELY told to put it down again, later we talked about how that related to the caste system here. So we finished up the hike, came back, had class which was sort of all three classes together, talking about writing, Measuring the World, conveying our experiences to others, the richness gained from traveling vs. staying at home, the dryness here, climate change, the politics of developing nations vs. developed nations, and so on and so forth. Dinner was delicious again, great chicken, and then... they built us a bonfire? Hey, they built us a bonfire. Johnny B. and I split 60 mL of Piper 100 whiskey, which was the smoothest scotch I have EVER had. Then we sat by the fire, John, Nate and I talked gun control, Sigrid asked if I was going to lead the group in kum-bay-yah and I asked when the last time I said ANYTHING harmonious was, I finished off a corona light of Nate's I had been carrying since Delhi, not wanting to still have it when we got to the airport, and I left when the gun control debate started again, with Allen joining. All in all, a good night.

Sunday, February 7th, roughly 9:30-9:35 PM local time