On the train
Still quite full from.last night, we enjoyed a light breakfast before packing our bags.
Our friends dropped us near the train station and we purchased a ticket back to Mumbai central, we had to change a Dadar. Once in Mumbai we had to wait a couple of hours for our 14.05 train to Vadodara, so we drank chai and ate some of the delicious sweets we had been given a few days ago.
On the train we drank more chai and ate more of our snacks. The scenery along the way was very pretty, crossing many rivers. A lovely couple in the same compaetment kindly shared their thepla with us - a traditional gurgarati bread.
We chatted to a local doctor and another friendly man helped us to download a live train app, so we could see where we were. It showed we were running a little late and that allowed us to send a message to our friend to let him know.
We were collected from the station and fought our way through the traffic to a pizza restaurant. We were met by our friend's sister and cousin and spent time chatting about Navratri, shopping for traditional festival dress and watching last year's events on Youtube. Oh, we also ate excellent pizza.