April 3, 2015 (Balasinor, India)

Today was our last full day on the train before arriving in Mumbai. The first activity of the day was the Dinosaur Park. Our tour guide for the day was Dr. Dinosaur who was actually the royal princes of Balasinor. On the way over to the Dinosaur Park we saw a heard of camels on the field, some standing up and some sitting down. That is also where I got my leg cut by the thorns. We walked around the Dino Park with our guide, Dr. Dinosaur who showed us fossils, some were removed from the rock, but some were still in the rock. All of the fossils we found were 65,000,000 million+ years old. She showed us not just bones, but dung, and skin too. You could tell which one was bone and which one was rock by knocking on them, if you heard a hollow sound it would be a bone, and if you heard otherwise it would be a rock. One other thing she let us do was hold Dino bones, and eggs.

Next, we drove over to a village. There, we did multiple things, one of the things I did was eat my first bite of tamarind off of a tree. I have eaten Tamarin before, but packaged, this was straight off the tree. Another thing I did there was try pottery. I was trying it on a locals wheel. My piece I was making ended up detaching from the force I was putting on it.

For lunch we ate at the kings garden palace. Before we ate mom and I walked over to him and talked to him. By his side there was a women wearing a brightly colored green sari, it was Dr. Dino! If you didn't hear me before I said that the royal princess was our guide! Before lunch we watched a couple traditional dances, with instruments and props as wooden sticks and umbrellas. After lunch we had an African dance performed by some local Indians. Mom had to step out of the room because it was so loud.

After the Garden Palace we hung out on the train in, being in our rooms, playing Uno, or Carrom. That evening almost everybody dressed up in Indian atire and danced. My shtik of my outfit was my turban that was tied by Dash. At the dance party the restaurant manager and one of the waiters were splendid dancers.

After the dancing we ate at the restaurant in the next car with the father and son couple, Tom and Cody.