Mom and I flew from Mumbai to Delhi yesterday on jet airways which was smooth and easy (great airline food, cute little bottles of himalayan water - oh, we have learned that the bottled water in India recently tested extremely highly for levels of pesticide and now joke endlessly about adding a little spurt of our high percentage deet bugspray into our drinking water for "flavour"). We checked in to our hotel with is just off Connaught Place in the center of New Delhi and the nicest one yet. We walked a bit and ate dinner and went to sleep, excited to see Matt when he arrived at 11:00 am the next morning (we assumed it would take him a couple of hours to get through customs and to the hotel...).
Instead we get a little knock at the door at 4 am... he had caught an earlier flight! Of course we hadn't made arrangements yet for the 3rd bed to be added to our double room, and so there was no where for poor Matt to lie down, so we did what any close family (read exhausted and cheap) would do and all three of us piled into the double bed in the room - me in the middle of course. We got a couple of hours sleep before heading out for our first full day in Delhi.
Breakfast was provided by the hotel - you could choose the continental version (Matt had eggs and bacon) or the Indian version (Abra had puri bahji - fried indian bread - and masala chai). Then we wandered arround connaught place for a bit enjoying the shops and visiting our new fave, Fab India.
Instead we get a little knock at the door at 4 am... he had caught an earlier flight! Of course we hadn't made arrangements yet for the 3rd bed to be added to our double room, and so there was no where for poor Matt to lie down, so we did what any close family (read exhausted and cheap) would do and all three of us piled into the double bed in the room - me in the middle of course. We got a couple of hours sleep before heading out for our first full day in Delhi.
Breakfast was provided by the hotel - you could choose the continental version (Matt had eggs and bacon) or the Indian version (Abra had puri bahji - fried indian bread - and masala chai). Then we wandered arround connaught place for a bit enjoying the shops and visiting our new fave, Fab India.
After that we walked to Jantar Mantar, a set of buildings that are actually large astrological instruments (more pictures to come) - very interesting. Then we walked to the Gate of India in Dehli - the smog made it a little less impressive. Then we hailed a rickshaw to drive us past the parliament buildings and back to the hotel where we showered for dinner with a friend of mom's, Arun, from when she was a backpacking hippy in India 30 years ago, sleeping outside with the cockroaches.
Everyone's in bed now but me so I'll save the details for tomorrow. But suffice to say Delhi is a fascinating place and we will have plenty to keep us busy for the next couple of days. And also, I love rickshaws.
Everyone's in bed now but me so I'll save the details for tomorrow. But suffice to say Delhi is a fascinating place and we will have plenty to keep us busy for the next couple of days. And also, I love rickshaws.
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Yay, you are reunited with your dear hubby! Glad he got there safe and sound. Your hair looks cute! Did you have Matt bring you hair products?
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