We made it! 14 hours later & I still have my sanity & all my luggage! A couple of people's luggage didn't make it, Sharon(missing 1 bag) & the couple middle maning this whole trip for Mission of Mercy missing both of their checkin's. Just one of those frustrating things about flying that you pray it never happens to you but then feel bad it happend to your friend. I'm def. glad my stuff made it since I had some video gear in there. I did take the GL2 as one of my carryon's. Well in my previous blog I mentioned about my excitement level not getting out of hand, well we were taking off & it still wasn't really hitting me, kinda surreal. After watching Spiderman 3, Charlie & the chocolate factory, some king of queens, a Hindi movie!, learning some Hindi phrases, taking some uncomfortable naps in positions that were just awkward, eating airline food... 14 hrs later we're flying over Delhi & as the flaps go down, we make our final approach, fly over the begining of the runway, the wheels touch down & BOOM! My heart jumps, Robert's home! It was great! As they open the hatch, the smell of India rolls in the cabin. haha It takes an Indian to appreciate that. There's no smell like Indian BO!!! Get to immigration & I'm thinking this is my home country, no probs. I made it through security in Newark, no cavity checks(praise GOD!), I should fly through this. NO! !@$% I walk up to the booth, & "Prakesh" indicated on his stall, asks me all these questions about my passport, wants to see my Green Card, wants to know why I'm here.... I just remain civilized & make it through. It was quite amusing to see how interested the Indian airport security was in my Golf bag which had my tripods & some other camera gear. They kept stopping me asking me what it was, what's in it... I wanted to say nonshallantly, oh it's just my bazooka case. But anyways. Make it to our hotel, which is nice, except for one last snafu! Wireless internet as promised is NOT free! but get this, it's $9USD an hr!!!! WHAT!?!?! Somehow through much communication which never got through to them, I got charged for an hour so here I am sitting 12:50am Thurs India time, 3:20pm Wed U.S. time posting my first blog from the motherland. Ofcourse right away I ordered room service with my first Indian dish here back home. Delicious:) I better plug my batteries in & hurry up here since my hour is almost up!lol grrrr... I'm gonna have to find an internet cafe' somewhere around. What a ripoff. I am so americanized with my entitlement issues lol. I miss Natalia, so Wendy, Kitkat hug her for mommy & daddy. To all my Ohioan's I was sitting in Newark waiting on my plane & saw Mansfield on CNN under water. I hope you guys are ok! Let me know. Oh another thing..... I miss my cell phone:( I miss it sooo... bad that I just might get a trac phone here. Must... stay... connected.... I've been long, rambling on. Love you guys. Thanks for the prayers & support. I'm out!
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