This week on Sunday the 5th we landed in Mumbai International Airport after our 15 or so hour flight. After some very long debate we decided to accept a job offer for my wife in India. The flight was actually pretty uneventful. I would have hoped for a different food choice since the dinner was geared more for the 95% Indian passengers. Nathan and Alex really didn't each much from there but I was proud that Alex actually tried the rice and ate most of it. He also actually slept for most of the flight which is more than probably the rest of us combined. But after losing pretty much a whole day we finally landed and proceeded to have to spend probably two hours waiting to get through customs and collect our suitcases. All ten of them.
While waiting to get through the swine flu line, Alex kept asking when we were going to get to India. I told him that we were in India and that we were just in the airport. He replied "Where are all of the elephants?" and had several people around us laughing. Luckily the people here have a pretty good sense of humor. The three hour car ride was our family's introduction to the traffic of India. It is the most insane thing ever. I couldn't count how many times we barely missed pedestrians, cars, bikes, or anything else on the road. in the last few days I have seen pedestrians crossing anywhere they please, bikes and cars randomly making Uturns and running red lights, and stray dogs literally sleeping in the middle of the street. It is by far way worse than Columbus on a football Saturday. Our first few days have been pretty interesting. next up shopping, McDonald's and the boys first day of school.
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