McDonald's?! (Sept.13th)

Today I woke up after a nice sleep to a sweaty morning here in Chennai. I got up, took a shower, and then had breakfast with Ahalya and her mother in law. After we had all finished our lemon rice (that didn't taste like lemon, but was yellow and still good), we got ready to go out to a temple. The temple was a little ways outside the city in the suburbs, and was called Ramanajur Temple. We arrived at the gates this morning just as the temple elephant was walking through! She was small and looked pretty old, but it was still SO cool to see another elephant!
The Ramanajur Temple was built in honor of a saint who was EXTREMELY holy. The saint was rewarded for his devotion to the religion by the God Vishnu- the God came down to earth and gave the saint a hug, and therefore gave the saint the same powers as if he was a God. We walked (or rather ran), around the temple, our feet burning on the hot stones. We lit a few candles to give to the Gods and then left, once again being blessed by an elephant!
After leaving the temple, we drove down the road a little ways to a memorial built for Rajiv Gandhi- the ex-prime minister of India who was murdered in a bomb blast on May 21st 1991. He had come to Chennai to campaign and was giving a speech when a woman from Sri Lanka placed a garland of flowers over his shoulders and the bomb went off. The women had the bomb strapped to her chest the whole time. The memorial was beautiful- there were many statues, and paths that wove around the grassy (that you couldn't touch) park.
We drove back into the city after that and decided to get some lunch. Guess where we went? (Yea, it's the title of this post!) McDonald's! (I know, normally I'm against McDonald's, but it's a vegetarian McDonald's so it couldn't be too bad right?!) The McDonald's here had a similar structure and the same interior design as every other McDonald's I've seen in the world, but the menu was what made this McDonald's an Indian McDonald's! The menu included a Mcveggie burger and a paneer wrap (paneer is an Indian cheese). I ordered a Mcveggie burger, french fries and a Fanta. The food was surprisingly delicious- it reminded me of my own country because everything tasted EXACTLY like McDonald's fast food, even though it was vegetarian! The three of us (Ahalya, her mother in law and I) all sat inside and ate our lunch, listening the whole time to The Backstreet Boys!