32 things I look forward to doing next time I visit Mysore, India

I am very much looking forward to visiting Mysore, and at the same time I realize that the city I visited back in 08 is probably not the city that exists today, it never is, and I know this from having visited Buenos Aires every year for the past 10, things change, cities move on, develop, get new immigrants and people leave them.

Picture from the Green Hotel website

Cities are as the people who live in them, and Mysore I am sure is no exception, nevertheless these are 32 things I am looking forward to doing when in the city of Ashtanga, weather it may have changed or not:

1. Visiting a tailor. The last time I went I got a beautiful dress made to my measurements, and oh so beautiful. You can see a picture here, I don't know what I was thinking on the sun-glasses front.
2. Getting an Ayurvedic treatment, or massage
3. Visit Chamundi hill (picture (right) from here)
4. Having dinner on full moon at the Princess' hotel (the Green Hotel) (picture above)
5. Drinking chai lots of it, but always before 5PM, as I would also like to sleep
6. Focusing on the practice
7. Visiting the Ramakrishna ashram and store where you can find lectures in cassette tapes... amazing
8. Going to the downtown market and buying some stuff I will not know what to do with when I return
9. Expressing gratitude to a few people I met in my last trip and who helped me more than they would have ever suspected 
10. Studying the yoga sutras
11. Chanting in a group
12. Having brunch in all the cafes that cator to westerners (Santosha, Anu, Tina, Green Leaf) can't wait
13. Going to Pizza Hut after a walk by the lake, yes there is a Pizza Hut, and also a Dominos... surreal
14. Walking on the street with my flashlight avoiding falling into enormous holes
15. Going to the pool (Southern Star), and striking a pose or two, why not? also having a slice of cake
16. Covering my head and shoulders
17. Practicing at the shala
18. Seeing friends and meeting lots of yogis and bloggers
19. Meditating
20. Writting
21. Resting
22. Taking photographs
23. Cleaning up primary series
24. Learning completely once and for all the full vinyasa count and names of asanas for primary
25. Being grateful and sending prayers to the KPJAYI
26. Stopping in Dubai
27. Thanking my husband for coming with me
28. Flying Emirates, hopefully the 380
29. Eating at the stand up cafe in particular
30. Blogging about it all
31. Going shopping at the supermarket Nuri? what was it called?
32. Having a blast

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