It was Christmas, the great day. But the irony is that everything (includes all restaurants, hotels, tourist places etc.) is closed on a Christmas Day. So it is one bad boring day for an outsider in a new city with no relatives to celebrate with. Before starting our random walks again we went out in search of a place to eat and luckily in that abandoned streets of Chicago, we found one store opened by Lord's grace. Lord bless that store keeper for keeping us alive. To thank the God for his grace (I don't think that anybody will buy it), we decided to make the most out of that day by visiting a Hindu Temple at Aurora, a suburb outside Chicago.
We set on our journey to visit the temple by a train. It was supposed to take more than an hour to reach there, so everybody took a nap to cover up their lack of sleep the previous night (don't get any wrong ideas). After reaching there, to our extreme surprise we found that the buses are not running on the day of Christmas (message is if you get stuck somewhere, celebrate your Christmas there). We could not have just gone back after traveling such a long distance, so instead we took a cab to the temple.
The beauty of the temple was stupendous. Finding such a comely temple in a foreign country makes Indians proud of their roots. We went inside, did all those routinely stuff that we do in a temple i.e. asking God for extravagant favors, buttressing the forgotten relationship with all Gods etc. etc. I have put up a few photos of the temple with this blog right at the start. We enjoyed our stay there and time came to take the trip back to Chicago.
Since, we didn't want to bother the almighty once again for our food, we decided to go to Chinatown in the evening for a good dinner and time pass. From far away only one can identify that you have reached the proximity of Chinatown with a lot of people moving around, shining lights, some crap written on big posters and so and so.
We went around looking for a nice place to eat and entered a Vietnamese hotel hoping for some vegetarian dish. Don't blame me, it was not completely my idea. On asking the lady inside the hotel about any vegetarian dishes, she politely replied a big NO! But, she told us a place where we can get some, may the Vietnamese lord bless the lady.
We went to this Chinese restaurant as told by the lady and luckily found some veg dishes. We all ordered some vegetable curry kind of thing to eat with the egg drop soup. Don't ask me what is this egg drop soup. I don't know even when I have tasted it. Also, who in the hell knew that these people are so well eaters, the vegetable curry for one person was equivalent for two. Anyways we were hungry and we started gulping all those kinds of vegetables in the curry without even checking their identity. In the end it was a fun experience. Just to mention one more thing, we didn't have to pay a tip in the restaurant also, they took it on their own as gratuity in the bill.
It was time for all of us to go home and take a good night sleep after this tiring day. Same long train ride to home and we were back in our room for some cozy rest. Nah!, we never slept before making fun of each other and doing crazy things and checking out all the hot movies being screened on TV. Thats it for today. See you people on my next day desciption.
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