Gandhi!!!

The next morning we went to the Bahai house of Worship. The building is shaped like a huge lotus blossom. I thought it would be cool if it was designed to open and close and it would have been really pretty if it were pink, but it didn’t open or close and it was just white. We attended a brief service and then we went to the Gandhi Museum. This Gandhi was really amazing, because the museum had you start in his room and then walk through to the courtyard and finish where he was shot and killed. Essentially, the museum was designed to take you through the last day of Gandhi’s life. It was really moving. They had Gandhi quotes that lined the path all the way to the courtyard and then they had a house that was part of the museum that gave a timeline of his life. Then we visited the Sikh Temple. We had to take our shoes and socks off and “wash” our feet in the water. I say “wash” because the water was like black, so it was more of a symbolic, religious act then a literal sparkly clean that you might think of when you think of “bath”. I really don’t know all that much about the Temples or the Indian religions and so we just observed the prayer and then had to bow as we left and then they handed us some dough to eat (although, none of us ate it) and then we went and looked at this pool that was blessed by a god and then we went to the airport to fly back to Chennai.