"Ok, this is a little crazy but…"

Molly has the best ideas.

Feeling the need for one last quick getaway before summer, Molly proposed we take a little trip…to India! Knowing that both of us want to one day spend a significant period of time in the country, we decided that this would just be a little sampler of a trip.

After some quick visa processing at the Indian embassy, we finalized our itinerary, which was anything but sane. We left Abu Dhabi late on Thursday night and arrived in New Delhi around 4am Friday morning. Friday and Saturday were for exploration until we were scheduled to fly back to Abu Dhabi, arriving just minutes before we were due at work Sunday morning. Plenty of time.

Well the first bit of excitement happened just as we landed in New Dehli. I suddenly realized that I gave our hostel the incorrect flight number. I was really nervous that no one would be there to pick us up. Guess what? No one was there to pick us up! Trying to remain calm (Molly was better at that than me*), I called the hostel. Oops! Not only did I give them the wrong flight number, I also gave them the wrong date! The taxi driver had arrived the previous day and waited for us for 4 hours… Ahem. The hostel sent him out again to get us and after only a 30 minute wait we were on our way!

It was tough to get a good first view of the city in the dark with our sleepy eyes. Turns out our hostel was on an “underdeveloped” road too rough for our taxi to drive down. We had an escort take us from the road down a narrow alley to our hostel. Sometimes you just have to trust [but don’t worry Mom and Dad, I never ignore the funny “danger” feeling in my tummy!].

Happy to have arrived we plopped ourselves down on our bed and fell fast asleep. We needed plenty of rest if we were going to tackle the country in just two days!

xo, jill

*Normally a situation like this would have me freaked out. I’m pretty proud that I was able to remain fairly calm and take care of business. However, all the credit should go to my wonderful travel companion who was so understanding of my mistake and not worried a bit. I’m going to have to channel her during my solo travel time this summer.