WE HAVE MADE IT SAFELY THROUGH OUR FIRST DAY OF TRAVEL WEEK!
After a day of classes, pick-ups, which began at 10:30 last night (Friday), a drive to Mumbai, a 2 hour wait in the airport, a quick nap in its cafe, a flight at 5:40 am, TOUCHDOWN IN JAIPUR, breakfast, a tour of the Amber Fort, photo-shoot of the floating palace, making prints on fabric, seeing the world's largest sundial (the Samrat Yantra), an evening of haggling like professionals (a pair of light-blue Om-printed ali-babba pants negotiated down to rs. 150 in addition to talking a man down from rs. 800 to rs. 200 for an elephant tapestry....if only he had a color I wanted...anyone?!), arriving for check-in to discover our first hotel room of travel week certainly exceeds our expectations, and rounding the day up with a delicious dinner at the hotel's roof-top restaurant under the stars, I think it is safe to say Day 1: Taking Over Jaipur has been a success!
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