A monsoon in a tea cup

After lots of updates and info about our projects and projects managers I’m sure we’re due for a field base team update…lets not leave them feeling left out!

After two weeks of planning, training, scheduling, blogging, counting and stacking the field base team had a much needed day off whilst the PMs were out visiting their projects.

After a bit of deliberating the field base team (Jess, M-J, Joss, Kath, Ali and Margaret) visited Mysore Zoo. We had a great morning wandering round the zoo, drinking coconut juice and dodging the showers.

Above: a tiger at the zoo.

Yummy coconut juice

After walking all morning round the zoo we had built up a huge appetite and decided to grab an auto and head to the Lalitha Mahal Palace. This is the second palace of Mysore and is now a hotel, apparently it was originally built for the King of Mysore’s mistress is 1921. We had an amazing lunch (obviously of curry) in a room that Joss described as ‘like being inside a wedgewood tea cup’.

The wedgewood tea cup

Margaret, M-J and Joss in the tea cup

We also had a little look at the stuffed tiger and lion...

Can you spot M-J in this pic?

...and then were treated to having a nosey at a bollywood film being made in the hotel, we even saw Amitabh Bachchan who’s really famous in India, in fact only earlier that day Kath had read about him in People magazine! Good celeb spot Kath!

We managed to blag a tour of the hotel and grounds and had a ride in the first ever elevator in Mysore…
And we checked out the views over Mysore…

Amitabh Bachchan wasn’t our only spot for the day we also bumped in to the Ambassador of Senegal on his way in to the hotel, he looked at us a bit strangely but then we weren’t exactly dressed for the occasion!

After a great day off it was back to work for the whole field base team and our first job was to arrange a party for all the PMs to welcome them back from their projects. We decided to have a fancy dress party and the whole field base team came along in Indian dress.

The lovely field base ladies

There were various other outfits from a mummy (Rich)…
to Scream (Gareth) and a fairy (Katharine)…
Since then its been heads down for soft skills training at field base and with the arrival of the venturers advancing at a mega speed on Saturday its all hands to the pump to get ready.