In preparation for my trip over here I checked the flight path to see if my flight would be going near the ash cloud. Well, they lied to me! Not till I got on the plane and checked on my 'flight path' screen did I find out that we would be flying directly across Europe instead of over Africa as the website said....hmmm.
After some major musical chairs with the other people on the plane to accomodate the many babies who were booked to sit by themselves we were all off for the 14 hour flight (which ended up actually being 15). Met a guy from Boston and a mother and her kid who decided to cry the entire way.
Here at last we spent a great night in the lovely air conditioned Hotel Ajanta. Woke up at 4:40 and was unable to go back to sleep until about 9:00am. As we got ready for the day we saw a semi-parade from our balcony go by complete with man throwing rice, trumpets, and women in colourful sari's. Went to Karen's roof top restaurant for breakfast....I ordered jam toast but was unfortunately unable to eat it. Not so good at keeping things down this morning...lets just leave it at that.
Off on the 5:30pm train to Agra tonight to see the Taj Mahal tomorrow morning.
Definitely feeling the heat, the pollution, the smell and the jetlag. I am sure I will adjust soon....I hope I adjust soon, at least.
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