Well, after several meds later, things are back on track (tract? ugh) Was desperate to go out last night so we went to the light show/historical presentation at the impressive Red Fort in old Delhi. The show highlighted the entire history of the fort, established by "the same guy who brought you the Taj Mahal!" Heh. At any rate, the architecture ( Read more... )

just because it's an american chain, and in a big clean mall, that doesn't mean you won't get food poisoning.

curse you, Pizza hut and your veggie masala pizza.

However, the doctor made a house call and I have bunches of great new meds now that the cold is winding down.

Ankit is feeling ok though, which is a blessing.

yesterday: obviously no time to update. The house started buzzing in the morning with the arrival of grandparents (Ankit's mom's side), and some old friends(the couple that helped a lot with our wedding came from Haridwar). Ankit was able to meet the new in laws early in the day, as he was back and forth to the railway station picking them up. ( Read more... )

ahhh, you gotta love getting sick at the worst time.  Just picked up a cold, or sinus thing it feels like, with Sakshi's wedding today.  Could be the result of too much carousing about in the dusty marketplaces, who knows.  On Friday, Ankit's mom's school's annual program was great- it actually embarassed me how professional and well rehearsed ( Read more... )

Today we visited this gigantic mall, the Great India Place. There were a few US and UK stores and of course many I hadn't heard of. There are big malls that have sprung up and I mean they're BIG, bigger than what we're used to... for the Chicagoans think Woodfield but somewhat vertical. This place was 4 tall floors and the length of, I don't ( Read more... )

Yesterday and today, shopping and tourist ventures were had.  We went to various markets in search of affordable fabrics to get some slacks made for me :)  We also got Ankit's passport back from the US people and went this morning to the Italian consulate.  We should be getting it back from them on Friday.  We have also gotten a chance to nip over ( Read more... )

Today Ankit got his new visa approved- which means a trip to the Italian consulate in a couple of days. We went out for some afternoon shopping in somewhat touristy areas of Delhi- you'll be glad to know the security presence is there in shopping centers and the like- they could deal with more on the streets though... and tonight we went to ( Read more... )

Hi everyone ( Read more... )

Actually having a bit of slow time at work, so here you go ( Read more... )

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/2876

language alert so sorry... but I am loving this.