Hello my wonderful three or four readers! This is my new blog. Cowboys & Indians....get it? Us being from Texas, living in India? Ok. We thought it was cute....
Pic above was taken on first day. I have quite a few more but I haven't quite mastered the settings on my new camera and well...more pics to come later. Today was Friday? Day three I think? Bruce and I are having a terrible time adjusting to the time change this time around. It's almost 2 a.m. and we are wide awake after both falling into deep sleeps at around 5 pm. Cannot get on a set schedule. John is the only one who seems to have mastered the time change so far. Okay, I know you're all anxious to hear first impressions of India so here goes.This whole post is going to be all over the place and random. I want to do a better job of posting this time around, so going to just throw out my thoughts and what I've seen without too much regard to editing. Come along and ride on my fantastic journey! Yes...quote from a song....
Pic above was taken on first day. I have quite a few more but I haven't quite mastered the settings on my new camera and well...more pics to come later. Today was Friday? Day three I think? Bruce and I are having a terrible time adjusting to the time change this time around. It's almost 2 a.m. and we are wide awake after both falling into deep sleeps at around 5 pm. Cannot get on a set schedule. John is the only one who seems to have mastered the time change so far. Okay, I know you're all anxious to hear first impressions of India so here goes.This whole post is going to be all over the place and random. I want to do a better job of posting this time around, so going to just throw out my thoughts and what I've seen without too much regard to editing. Come along and ride on my fantastic journey! Yes...quote from a song....
Bruce rushing to meet "India"
We arrived in Bangalore at around 3. a.m. The weather outside was
nice and cool. We were all wide awake, and as Bruce was very excited
to be getting off the plane he of course took off with his Thomas bag
running.....he was a sight! Remember the saying "it takes a village to
raise a child?" Well I was very touched that as Bruce took off running,
the Indian women and men all smiled at him, patted his head as he
passed and two teenaged girls even put out helping hands and helped him
when he would veer the wrong way or would fall with his heavy suitcase.
The gestures were kind and maternal, all of them and I
immediately felt a sense of kinship and community with these people that
I had never met. That was my first impression of the Indian people and
it was a good one and it hasn't changed.
Scenes from our first day in the back of the cab
A beautiful girl working the street selling hand puppets. She smiled and played with Bruce making him laugh with her quacking duck. See the beauty that I see?
Yup you are seeing that correctly a KFC and a Taco Bell in the building behind.
Yup you are seeing that correctly a KFC and a Taco Bell in the building behind.
Our first trip was of course a visit to the grocery store. Fascinating as the scenery was/is I found that things were only just beginning to get interesting. Our vehicle trunk was checked before we could enter the parking lot of grocery store which was located in a mall. Then upon entering the grocery store our bags were checked again. I was stunned to figure out that they were searching for bombs. John and I will be having a long time about this..... but let me go on. Ok, so after the bag checks and feeling the old "what have I gotten myself into phrase" starting to creep up on me I walk into the store and hear Eminem's lyrics "Cause I know you want me baby I think I want you too. I think i love you baby i think i love you too i'm here to save you girl come be in Shady's world"...yes I start singing along and am immediately in a better mood. There I go singing along and starting to panic because i'm in aisle about six now? And still do not see anything I recognize, want to try and thinking we're going to starve when "oh baby baby how was I supposed to know"....starts playing. It's Britney biaaatch and once again, my mood is transformed, I am calmed by the music I recognize and shortly after find eggs, rice, bread, peanut butter,rice and of course red cokes! Thank you Tori, Vincent and Emily for introducing me to the music that soothed me today and helped me thru what could have been a very disappointing trip to the grocery store.
Yes, the cow.....one of many we saw.
After a hard day at school, there were four kids and a mom in the back of this tuk tuk.
Colorful clothes and thru all walks of society status the women walk with an air or elegance and pride. Beautiful.
To recap....day 1 was a very interesting trip to the grocery store. Bomb checks of our vehicle and persons. Daunting. Saw trash strewn streets everywhere, but in those same areas saw beautiful people, amazing architectured buildings withing steps from each other. So far I am finding India to be a maze of colorful chaos.
Oh yeah, hit a McDonalds too, no beef burgers of any kind, imagine that. Chicken sandwiches were oh so spicey. The Hard Rock Cafe is the most beautiful HR I have seen in my travels and is housed in building that is 100 years old and served as a bible society.
We saw homes with Christmas lights decorating the outsides, these homes were made of tin and yet were still beautifully lit with the lights, saw shrines to the Virgin Mary and Jesus, crosses displayed in lots of different areas.....some only feet away from Hindu shrines etc. There is no order or organization, rather an organized chaos if you can understand that. I'm too tired to try and explain but will try and elaborate more tomorrow. Today was the first day of our house hunt and we begin again in earnest early tomorrow morning. Much more to write and tell and will do so along with better pics that will tell a better story.
Love to all. Good night or good morning, i truly have no idea which it is.
Peace out.
To recap....day 1 was a very interesting trip to the grocery store. Bomb checks of our vehicle and persons. Daunting. Saw trash strewn streets everywhere, but in those same areas saw beautiful people, amazing architectured buildings withing steps from each other. So far I am finding India to be a maze of colorful chaos.
Oh yeah, hit a McDonalds too, no beef burgers of any kind, imagine that. Chicken sandwiches were oh so spicey. The Hard Rock Cafe is the most beautiful HR I have seen in my travels and is housed in building that is 100 years old and served as a bible society.
We saw homes with Christmas lights decorating the outsides, these homes were made of tin and yet were still beautifully lit with the lights, saw shrines to the Virgin Mary and Jesus, crosses displayed in lots of different areas.....some only feet away from Hindu shrines etc. There is no order or organization, rather an organized chaos if you can understand that. I'm too tired to try and explain but will try and elaborate more tomorrow. Today was the first day of our house hunt and we begin again in earnest early tomorrow morning. Much more to write and tell and will do so along with better pics that will tell a better story.
Love to all. Good night or good morning, i truly have no idea which it is.
Peace out.
