Rickshaws and Mint Chips

Here are the pictures we promised of the Rickshaws - our most common form of getting around here.

Also a new cultural experience that we had today - Lay's "Mint Mischief" chips. Yes, they are mint chips. I think we like them.
Hope you're all well, and have a great day!

Hello from Tarzan baby!

We had to put this one up for the Aldrich's after they got us the Tarzan-baby NobleBunz diaper for Kai's baby shower! Thanks, it fits great!!
Us at the Sangam (convergence of the rivers)
One method of transportation, the one I usually use if it's only me going somewhere like grocery shopping or the internet cafe. We'll try to get a picture of the rickshaws soon - our usual method of transport, a rickshaw is a 3-wheeled bike that pulls a cart that we sit in. The picture will explain it better. The bike's actually faster, but that's because I'm only pulling my own weight, not that of 2.5 others. :)

One more cultural note...

We've mentioned that the bathrooms here have one of two options, but it's easier to show this in pictures. One option is the "Western-style" toilet (which we have at our place). The other is this, the "Indian-style" toilet, still porcelin, not just a hole, but as seen above. Note the grooved footrests on either side for ease in, well, I'll stop there. The trains actually have 2 options too...there really is one stall labeled "Western Style," and one labeled "Indian Style."

Tune in soon for the next edition of Micaiah's Travel blog, which may feature such exciting shots as a rickshaw ride, or naptime, or whatever other adventure is in for him tomorrow! Good night!

Banana Day!!!

Micaiah was VERY excited to try his first food today!! (16 Feb 08)

Unfortunately, it seems he does not like bananas.

He LOVED mishing it around on the table, though!
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We had a video to place here, but it's too big to load at the internet cafe's in the amount of time that we've had. Sometime when we have 2 or 3 hours to spend we'll try again uploading the shorter video. When this happens it'll be a new post, so you won't have to keep checking backwards to see if it's here yet. :)

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A nice relaxing nap under the pomegranite tree after a big morning

Continuing yesterday's pictoral view of our apartment, here's the study...

...and the bathroom!!! Yaaay!

Hello out there!

नमस्ते !

Hello! Just leaving a quick post for now so that y'all don't think we dropped off of the face of the planet. No, it's going well here...as you can see from Kai's response to being here below:

We also got to move into our new place! Here's Mike in the kitchen...

...and Kai on his playmat!

Gotta run for now, but we'll have more pictures soon, we promise. :)

Especially since he'll be six months, and thus Kai tries mashed bananas soon...