Namaste from New Delhi

We're here! We arrived last night at 11:30pm.... after 28 hours of travelling. And we are exhausted!First of all, the flight from Brussels to New Delhi was excellent. I cannot recommend Jet Airways enough. They treated us like stars. The service was fanastic, the food was incredible, and the in-flight entertainment system was awesome. (How do you like all those adjectives? lol). Anyway, we finally landed... and our greeter wasn't there! We waited an hour and a half - and were dripping with sweat. It was midnight and about 90 degrees. So, I called the greeter guy that Holt gave us and his phone was turned off. We finally found a really nice guy to help us out and he let us use his phone and helped us buy a ticket for a prepaid taxi. I was so grateful - and a bit disoriented - that I tipped 1000 rupees. Yeah, that's right. 1000 rupees. Mom scared me to death when she calculated that I'd just given a stranger $260 dollars.Thank goodness she's bad at math (as I obviously am, too) and it turned out to be $26. Still, that's one honkin' big tip - especially when in some parts of India, people make $1 a day.Anyway, hey, it made his day (week, and year), so it's fine. Chalk it up to a learning experience.So, we got on the taxi.... a taxi that had no gas. It stopped and sputtered all the way down the dusty, foggy highway at 2:00 in the morning. At one point, I thought me, mom, and all our luggage was going to end up on the side of the road (or in a ditch. The guy scared the crap out us - almost quite literally). There's more to the story, but I'll post it later.Okay, so we checked in. We're staying at the Sri Nanak in Karol Baugh. It looked awful last night, but it's really nice. The area is iffy, but there's excellent shopping - which is what counts, right? lolWe've been scammed a few times with the rickshaws, but can you really complain about paying a few dollars extra when you know some of these drivers make their living with it. What's a few couple of dollars when you look at it that way?We've met some great people at the hotel restaurant. There is FREE internet, which is fantastic. It doesn't always work, but we'll try to update when we can.We did some shopping today. Stephanie, I bought the girls some outfits and bangles. They are adorable!!! I bought Nandini a few things. I can't wait to try them on her.We'll off to bed. We fly out to Pune early tomorrow. We'll leave at 6:30 in the morning, so we have to pack and figure out how to fit all our purchases in our already overly stuffed suitcases. We didn't really think about that when we were out and about today.That's it. Will post more when we can.Noah's Mom