Accountant Adventures: Bollywood

The Sun was in my eyes!

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The family that got us this great room, I will call them the L family, was also able to get us inside of Movie City. This is a place that many Bollywood movies are made and Indian TV shows are shot. This is not a place that normal tourists are allowed to come so we were very excited. Movie City is located in Mumbai, but once you enter its hard to believe that you are still in the second most populous city in the world because you feel like you are in the jungle or the mountains. We had a guide show us around to all of the buildings that they have and tell us the movies that were filmed there. Unfortunately I have seen fewer Bollywood films than I have fingers so I didn’t know any of the films they mentioned. We did get to see one place that has a “Who want to be a Millionaire” set and maybe “Slumdog Millionaire” was filmed there, but I don’t know for sure.

After the tour we went to Mr. L’s brother Mr. L2’s house. I know I am so clever. Mr. L2 had purchased a beer making machine and we were coming over for dinner and to try the first batch. The beer machine, I think that is also the brand name, looks like a keg with a spigot on the front. The machine was pulled out of the fridge, put on the table and started to pour. Unfortunately there was no pressure and the beer only dribbled out and was very flat. Nine of us stood around examining the instructions and the machine trying to get it to work. We decided that it needed more pressure so a CO2 canister was added to the machine. The pressure gauge didn’t move and still the beer dribbled out of the spigot. We played with the CO2 canister and had a large amount of CO2 escape in a white vapor into the room and we all jumped and screamed. Finally we figured out how to get some CO2 into the canister, but we had already let most of it out into the room and they did not have any more canisters. We all had a small glass of the flat beer and then switched to regular beer and whiskeys.

Most of the people whose houses I have been to while in India, take their shoes off at the front door. I have been wearing sandals here everyday, but my sandals got wet and now have the vilest smell in the world so I have switched to tennis shoes with socks. When I take my shoes off I have socked feet, while most other people have bare feet. I went into the bathroom, I know I have a lot of bathroom stories, and flushed the toilet. Instead of the water going inside the toilet, like normal, it squirted out the sides of the toilet and quickly flooded the small bathroom. I screamed and jumped and hollered and none of those behaviors made the water stop. Finally the water did stop, but the bathroom was flooded and my socks were soaked.

After we had all been drinking for a significant amount of time we went into Mr. L2’s music room and he played the piano while we all sang along. It was an incredibly fun filled day. Mr. and Mrs. L have taken us in and treated us like family, its nice to be able to feel this way, when my actual family is so far away.