Couldn't tell it is night by my body but from the dark outside. eh, it's just jet lag and will pass. We whisked through customs and the airport and got our bags while I fretted about exactly where and how we were going to find my friend Arvind whom I had only seen a couple pictures of in the 2 1/2 years since he joined my Infy team. We followed the crowd out the exit and there's a crush of people there behind a barrier holding up signs and offering services and I scanned about a half a second and saw his face and knew him! And he knew me! thankfully he was able to steer us out and around and into his car and outta that airport. I'd read numerous things about the touts and scammers and people just clammoring to help you so they can make a living, and could readily tell just by scanning all those eager alert faces that they saw $$$ and a bulls eye on our backs. I don't think getting out of there would have been a fun time on our own so Thank You to Arvind, who is just as wonderful if not more so than I knew he'd be!
Our hotel on the other hand... That's more the reason I can't sleep than the jetlag I'm afraid. We wanted an "Indian" experience, and by Jove, I think we got one! just as I had gotten out of bed (hardest damn bed this soft white woman has EVER sat on) to kill a mosquito, Lisa is knocking on my door saying she had just been bit by something and showed 2 bites on her ankle and her lower lip was swollen. Located the antihistamine and the mosquito repellant, went back to her room where I killed one, came back to my room to try to sleep but when I went into the bathroom I could see the damn things coming in through the window! good thing we,,'re taking the anti-malarial meds. I think we will be finding a new hotel tomorrow.
It's 4am and I really need to sleep but this really hard bed and Mosquitos after so many warnings of malaria - well, as I said to Lisa -toto, we are not in Kansas anymore!
( if you don't get the reference, watch the Wizard of Oz)
hopefully next entry will be from different hotel ;D
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Apparently Saravanan didn't know that you'd be put up in Mount Manor. When he learnt this piece of news, over lunch today, his first comments were "Oh boy, Jules is not going to like it there!"
There should be a Radisson just down the road. After a business class flight, maybe it's time to upgrade on terra firma.
Coming in through the window... i'm shuddering in horror. !!!
Hope Lisa's okay! :X
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