Day Two in India

First, and most importantly, here is some Hindi:
इ ऍम व्रितिंग इ हिन्दी। रयान वांट्स में तो तेल यू ठाट हेर स्तोमच हर्ट्स। ओके, बेक तो एनग्लिश।

Ten points if you can figure out what that says!

Day one was fairly uneventful - I was still exhausted and pissy from traveling all day and Ryan's stomach has been hurting so we spent most of the day in the hospital room watching funny TV and playing Apples to Apples and cards. And, of course, sleeping.

We did have one interesting experience - while Ryan was getting a echocardiogram, Erin and I got to do some interesting Indian yoga with one of the physiotherapists in the basement of the hospital. It was mostly for Leah, another patient receiving stem-cell treatment (who is also from Colorado!), so it was a little less yoga-rific than I've ever done and focused a bit more on strength. After a while, the heat got to us, and I think I now understand what hot yoga is all about.

Today we were a bit more productive (but just a bit). We decided we were going to walk to a market, which was quite an experience because the sidewalks are a bit precarious and the cars and rickshaws drive all over the place - on the sides of the road, on medians, on the wrong side of the road - everywhere.

We then realized that it might be better to start out with our Delhi experience in a more touristy place - that is, more accessible and accustomed t0 visitors. So we took a rickshaw into central Delhi, to Connaught Place, and walked around there, which was nice (and hot!)

Just as I expected, I'm most fascinated by all of the colors of materials. We did a lot of looking at kurti (those lovely long shirt things that Indian women wear) and I even found this awesome Indian nightgown that looks like something that my Grandma would have worn. It was only 220 Rupees, which is about 3,25€ or $5. It's perfect.

After a few hours in the heat and lunch, we took a harrowing rickshaw ride back to the hospital to shower and rest.

I'm going to include a few more photos on this blog.

One is of Ryan using Skype, our new lifeline, one is of my "bed" - it's one of those fold out chair things that you might have in your dorm room in college, but so far, it's pretty comfortable, and one is of our interesting dinner from last night: fried chicken, baked beans, and finger chips. This translates loosely to a bunch of kind of spicy chicken nugget thingies (Ryan said they looked like chicken feet and refused to eat them), baked beans that tasted like ketchup, and really greasy french fries that you had to eat with a fork. Oh - and Texas toast. It was lovely - quite an experience!

Tonight, we had the choice between "veg" and "non-veg" - no further explanation than that. I decided to be daring and go for the non-veg... we'll see how that goes.

Thanks for all of your well wishes, emails, and calls. It's really great to hear from you all.

love sarah