What a day....

Today was a day during which the fact that we are in India was driven home. Last night I fell asleep at about 4pm, given the lack of sleep between NY and London. Then, of course, woke up at 4am this morning. Couldn't sleep so we all got up, Tyler Caleb and I, and played video games/checked email/formatted pictures/searched for things to do for about 7 hours. Finally at 11 we got a car to come and take us around for shopping etc. Little did we know that in Gurgaon, aka DLF, (the town we are in South of Delhi) everything is closed on Tuesdays. Of course. :) So making other plans we decide to drive to Delhi to do some shopping there. The drive is about an hour I would guess. On our way there, we hit some traffic where there was a particularly disturbing scene: a man on a motorcycle had been hit by a car or something and was pretty badly hurt. His helmet was on one side of the road, himself on the other...I'm not sure he was alive. I was a little upset by this and a little sick to my stomach, but had little time to think of it because a man at the scene was suddenly getting into our car. Apparently this is not customary :) We had all the doors locked and he couldn't get in, so the driver turned the car off, handed him the key, the guy got in the back where there are two extra seats, handed the key back and off we drove. Our shock lasted for a minute before they told us that this was someone we should know. He happened to be on the road to Delhi...he also happens to work at AdYatra.

Next, we drove to CP...stands for C.... Place. I am having trouble remembering Hindi names. It is essentially the center of Delhi, and nearby is the India Gate. We weren't terribly interested in sightseeing so we didn't stop there, but maybe sometime in the next three months we'll go back. We ate lunch at TGIFridays! Not very adventurous I know, but it's only day 2. We visited Palika Bazaar also, which is an underground market. Busy and exhausting to say the least.

The drive back was as uneventful as driving in Delhi could be, I'll post a video later of the traffic so you can see for yourself. Lines between lanes? What lines? We are still at the office now, it's about 2:45am. Not sure when we'll be working yet, day or night, but there are conferences coming up that will be from early afternoon until 2am so we're trying to get on that schedule now.

Check out our photos on the slideshow below. We'll post more later today. Sorry the writing is horrendous tonight...I'm still a little jetlagged. Hope you're doing well, thanks for checking in!

T