Observations about India
1. No matter how hard we try to blend, no one seems to think we are from India. Mike even had someone take a picture of his red hair.
2. Traffic. No words can describe. Much like playing frogger, except you are at the mercy the frog (aka your crazy rickshaw driver).
3. Ricksahaws scare the heck out of Shannon (those are those green and yellow buggies). Mike's hand is still recovering from holding it so tight.
4. Don't try walk from the mosque to the emporium. We did. Take a look at that last picture. Yes. That's what we walked through for a mile. 100% insane.
5. Even the hotel is going to try swindle you.
6. Highways might include cows, bikes, rickshaws, huge trucks, street fights between rickshaw drivers (yes we saw that), lots of random walkers, people peeing publicly, monkeys, goats, and other things we probably forgot to mention. Oh, and landmarkings and stop lights are merely a suggestion and hardly ever observed.
7. 97% of the women we see wear beautiful saris. NO women shows their legs. I went to the mall to buy some new pants to get me through the week. See picture of the beautiful fabrics.
8. People have been friendly to us (if they are not getting us to buy something that is). They are very direct with questions. i.e. What is your profession? What are your qualifications? What is your salary?
9. Did we mention that the traffic insane?
10. There are monkeys walking around as if they are dogs. Shannon loves this.
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