Transitions

We have  started the second leg of our trip.  We flew into Istanbul and I was able to take a few good pictures as we approached the airport.    For this trip, the airport was the closest we got to Istanbul.    Turkish Airlines has a great lounge there and we enjoyed it for a few hours while we waited for our plane.   You meet lots of interesting folks in the airport.   We met a young Greek woman and two of her sons.   They were moving to Connecticut to join her husband and other son.   Her boys were 5 and 6 and this was their first plane trip.  We saw them until we landed in Istanbul and they rushed off to make a tight connection to JFK.   We also met a young couple and their ten month old son who were moving back to Saudi Arabia after living in Denver for ten years.   We do live in a mobile society.

We arrived in New Delhi, India this morning with no luggage for Flo!   (Still no luggage on Sunday morning, two days later!).  

She handled it well and the bag is supposed to arrive tomorrow morning!   We went shopping for clothes for her today, and I was the one who did all the shopping!

After checking in to our hotel and taking a shower  and having some breakfast, we met our driver, Arjun, and our guide for today, Jessie.  We had a good tour of some key sites in New Delhi.   We saw the Red Fort (which is closed for renovation), the Golden Temple, which is a Sikh temple.  We toured the entire temple area and found it very impressive.  There is a daily "free meal" served by members of the temple from 12-10pm to all who come for the meal.   We had a tour of the kitchen, where the Naan and lentils were being cooked.    It was very peaceful and pretty neat.  They serve thousands of people daily and do it to "serve God".   

Our tour guide took us shopping, twice!!    I bought a gorgeous pashmina rug that will be shipped to Oriental.   We looked at beautiful jewelry and beautiful clothes.  Of course, I was the one buying things!

Now we are relaxing to get ready to take off tomorrow for Agra and the Taj Mahal!    Can't wait!