India!

Amsterdam airport nap!

We made it to India late Monday night after a long journey of traveling, and were picked up by our friends, Christy and Amrish to stay at their beautiful home in New Delhi.  The visit has been wonderful thus far, filled with relaxing, going for walks and eating wonderful food.  Now as you can see, really we have only been here just about 2 days, and with sleeping and catching up on jet lag (10.5 hours ahead in India), we have definitely had our time sleeping and resting, but even so we feel so relaxed.  Luckily we had the experienced advice of Christy and Amrish to relax and allow ourselves to adjust.  The first morning as Willie woke me up, I thought it was probably about 9:30am, turns out I wasn't even close, it was 2:30pm!  Nonetheless we stayed up and enjoyed a wonderful dinner and drinks with friends.

With our friend Ailen

Today brought us our first adventure traveling out into New Delhi.  Our wonderful friend Ailen from our time living in Argentina, happens to be in Delhi at the same time as us.  She has been traveling through India for the last 2 months and we decided to meet up during the short time we are visiting.  It was quite the adventure trying to track her down, and after nearly 24 hours we figured out where each other was met up.  With Christy's help figuring out travel Willie and I took an "auto taxi" over to where she was and spent the next hour or so catching up on life over the last 6 years.  It was quite the experience traveling around the city, and it gave us our first look at the day to day life in Delhi.  We made it there and back, and only got hit by two water balloons (apparently there is a festival this week and people throw water balloons at vehicles).  Since our vehicle was open we took the brunt of the water.  Other than that we met the nice gentleman hosting Ailen and then made it back.

Our vehicle in Delhi traffic

Tomorrow we wake up really early and catch our flight to Bhutan.  We are looking forward to learning more about the country and culture while we are there!

We hope all is well with you!
Willie and Katie