Latter-day Gator: Week 3

I finally understand how Elphaba (from Wicked) feels. So many stares and stops in the street, I feel like a celebrity who has to run away from the crowds of people who want pictures. The problem is, if you stop for one, you have to stop for them all, because its a swarm of people wanting pictures and getting quite close.

A lot of pictures this week as I was able to travel a bit. We went to Delhi, Agra, Jaipur, and Mumbai.

Delhi we stayed with a Mormon family of eight children whose father is apart of the Embassy. They had a piano, a violin, and a Mormon church building, so I was very happy for the two days we stayed there. While in Delhi I was able to see some old ruins

Humayn's Tomb

And The Red Fort

On Sunday, after church we headed over to Agra to see the

Taj Mahal

And the Agra Fort

If you squint you can spy the Taj Mahal from the Agra fort.

We then made our way to Jaipur where we spent about three days exploring. (I was ecstatic about the dry heat)

The City Palace had stunning architecture and doorways. I could've stayed in the armory forever, looking at the jewel studded handles and archerers rings.

We rode an Elephant up to the Amber Fort (A lot of forts, I know) You would think riding an elephant would be easy and you would look graceful doing so, haha, that is the opposite of what happened. But it was an amazing experience non-the-less.

There is this shop here called Anokhi. The shirt I'm wearing is actually a shirt from them. They do a thing called block printing, where the patterns are hand printed on. I had the opportunity to go to their museum and see their process and actually do some block printing myself!

Then we traveled to Mumbai. We met up with Ved there, and spent the first day there in a restaurant for his launch meeting. The next day was my birthday, so we went to crepes for breakfast:) We then headed down to the India Gate and then hit up the beautiful Taj Mahal Palace Hotel for our last salad before heading back to the airport and Faizabad (were salad and non Indian food are not really available)