Mumbai/Bombay

I know Mumbai is technically and politically correct, but no one here refers to it as Mumbai, everyone says Bombay!
I arrived the day before yesterday - the city is huge and crowded and very dirty, but still pretty amazing. And such a change from where I have been for the past month. I took a cab from the airport to the hotel where I met up with my mom... hurray! Our first night here a friend of my mom's from the last time she and my dad were at Stanford (when I was four and dad was a student in the journalism prog) named Kalpana picked us up and gave us a driving tour of some of the city before taking us over to Colaba, the touristy part of town, where we walked around a bit. We ended up eating dinner at Leopold's which was a bit creepy, but good food. It was packed, everyone seems determined to show any would be terrorists that they won't be intimidated or live in fear. Plus the general consensus seems to be that lightening doesn't strike twice so the spots that were hit are now the safest.
Yesterday mom and I wandered the city most of the day, seeing the Gates of India and the Taj hotel, and hitting everything from the local food and produce market in the midst of a low income neighborhood to a few high end department stores. Then today we are thinking to take a ferry to nearby elephant island.
Mom is waiting for me to go have breakfast with her so I can't write much but I'll try to post again soon. we have discovered we can use the computers in the hotel lobby which is very helpful.