On Our Way!

Our first flight was cake! Seriously. Natalie was upgraded to business class and Priscilla and I reaped the rewards. The plane was huge and each seat had individual televisions with movies. Priscilla loved the food. I was a bit more apprehensive. I crashed out right away and then woke and watched three movies, back to back.

We landed in Amsterdam at 7am, 1am our time. As soon as we got in the airport we headed for Star Bucks. Soy Chai was "same same but different"- that's an Indian saying. We visited a museum of art inside the airport with paintings, sculptures and ceramics from the 16th century. One of the painting discriptions spoke of a style that was described as " seeming but not being". I could teach a whole class around that!

Anyway, second flight, not so good! The plane was older, babies crying, bad breath guy sitting next to Priscilla. Yeah, not so good. But we are here now in Delhi reaping the rewards of traveling with Natalie once again. The Crown Royal Hotel where we are staying the night is much better than the first room I stayed in here in Delhi. I guess that's the difference between 200 rupees and 4300 rupees. We waited for our luggage last night for over an hour and didn't arrive to the hotel until 2am, exhausted and hungry. We slept like babies last night and today had complimentary breakfast in the executive Club Room on the sixth floor.

So now we are ready to go out into the world of India. Our flight takes off at 3pm. and arrives in Dehradun around 4:30. We will catch a crazy car ride through the mountains along a narow dirt road where our driver honks incessantly to avoid collision.The next entries on the blog will be from Rishikesh, in the foothills of the Himalayan Mountains, the land of Shiva, the yoga capital of the world. We will be keeping you posted along the way.
For now,
Namaste~