It’s tough for me to consider yesterday’s lounging around our posh hotel to be much of an Indian experience although it was a pretty swell way of spending a day of jet lag. So today marks our first true day in India. Our tour guide, Sandeep, picked us up around 9:30 and we went to the Red Fort, a Mughal fort and palace that was built by Shah Jahan, the same Maharajah who built the Taj Mahal. Many of the Indian tourists were fascinated by the kids and probably half a dozen groups stopped to ask if they could take a photo of them with Nick and Nora. We also took a rickshaw ride through the Chowdri Chawk, the market area of Old Delhi. We wound through impossibly narrow streets lined with various types of stores including shops for brides, booksellers and wholesale sewing supplies. In addition to the shops there were the range of food sellers, vegetable stands and an open-air urinal.
3 comments:
Glad to read your blog now in INDIA. Happy the flight was gotten thru and you had time to rest before being the object of interest to Indian people. When Bill and I were in China lots of Chinese wanted to take his photo or to be pictured with him...he is bigger than most Chinese. The kids look well and excited. So glad Obama won! A new era!! and we so need it. Take care and keep writing.
ok, so utterly groovy!! Thoroughly envious! YOu're going to get an invitte to a drinks do for my fortieth that you clearly can't attend, but I wanted you to know you were wanted!
HI ALL!!!401 misses you so much! I will show the class your posts! it looks amazing so far.....
We spend our love!All is pretty normal here! We are learning graphing and chatting about pollution at the moment!
xoxo--401
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