Vijay's Village Trip Post 3

I left this picture out of the last post. This is in front of the house that Lakshmi grew up in. In the picture is our family with Shravia, Lakshmi, Shrinadi, Lakshmi's Father, and a random girl in red next to Alan.

We left Vijay and Lakshmi in her village and drove with the driver to Nellore. We arrived at our hotel at 3:00 in the afternoon. The kids decided to check out the pool and the gym. We then headed to dinner at the hotel and went to bed early. The next morning Vijay came by bus to Nellore and we picked up our car at the Toyota Dealership. Of course they couldn't find anything wrong with it. We started off and got about 35 km out of Nellore and the car started having troubles again. We pulled over and waited for a while. Luckily the place it quit working had a little stand with some snacks and next to that was a mechanic.

 While we waited Annie found a couple of tires that she threw rocks into for about 20 minutes.

 Maddie and Ethan sat in the car for a long time playing Sleeping Queens. Then they realized that it was too hot and got out of the car.

 This is the little snack stand and that we stopped by and ate ice cream and drank some sodas.

After being stopped for about an hour the mechanic couldn't find anything wrong with the car, and it started running OK so again we were off. We started talking about what to do if we couldn't make it home. We talked about getting bus tickets, staying at another hotel and trying again tomorrow, riding the train if we found a station, ect. Well, another 39 km and again we started having problems. Vijay found a spot and pulled the car over. Again next to a snack shop. Alan got out of the car and started walking around. Vijay went to the shop owner and started talking to him. All of the sudden I started seeing Vijay running down the road. I told all the kids to quickly get their shoes on and grab some water bottles. We got out of the car quickly as Vijay chased down a bus. We quickly jumped on the bus and we were headed towards Bangalore. Vijay stayed behind eased the car back home.

 Once we were on the bus we found the only 2 empty seats and crammed into them. They decided to let Alan sit up front by the driver.

P.S. Ellie felt bad that she wasn't mentioned in the last 3 posts and wanted me to make sure everyone knew she stayed home from this trip because she had a school project and couldn't miss Thursday or Friday. Thank you MacDonald Family for letting her stay at your house.