No Stress Passing

I was in Mumbai on Thursday for a quick one-day conference and under a flyover (over pass in the US) was a sign about how Mumbai owned the land and that "Stress passers will be persecuted"! HA!

I've been procrastinating about posting the rest of the pictures from Rachel's visit. Last Sunday we tried to quickly cross a few more outings off the list. First up was the Q'tub Minar. It's Delhi's first city and is home to the world's tallest minar. Here are Rachel and I in front of said minar. It's really a gorgeous set of ruins, but more ruined than most here so it's harder to imagine what the city would have been like. The Agra fort which we had seen the day before, on the otherhand, was very easy for me to imagine living in - in pure luxury of course. However, they didn't seem to be interested in selling.

Later that day we went to INA market, which is a general market, with a little bit of everything but particularly good for random food. It's the place you go when you can't find that ingredient. It's chaotic. Many asian cities I've been in have their equivalent to INA, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia it's the Russian market, in Vientiane, Laos it's the Morning Market. At INA it's crowded aisles of all sorts of things. In the back is the live animals (about to be dead) section with fish, chickens etc. It's smells not so nice - and I'm sure there's no bird flu here:) Actually I was sitting behind a colleague of mine on the flight back from Mumbai. She's a really good doctor and she ordered the chicken - so now I'm feeling much better about eating chicken. I still don't want Tenzing to prepare it though, cuz it's easier to catch in preparation then after it's cooked.

We then went to the Big Chill for lunch, and their famous Mud Pie and ran into a bunch of my friends, which is nice becuase the Mud Pie is just too big for 2.