Timeline

So we've been here a week now, we got here around 9 last friday! So here's the breakdown of what's happened:

12/7: Arrival in Kanpur, dinner and off to bed...slept wonderfully through the night.

12/8: Rinky's birthday, dinner with her family, Atul falls ill (loosies, etc.)

12/9: off to Allahabad to meet my grandfather, my kids got a chance to meet their great-grandfather. I felt really proud to have been able to do that. Then we went over to the cemetery to see the kids' grandmother's grave site (Atul's mom's), it was a very sobering moment for us only to be broken by Avi's question: "Where is my grave?"

12/10: Jet-lag has kicked our butts and the trip to alld. did not help much. We are completely out of sorts

12/11: Go to do some major shopping and loving every minute of it...atul still sick, get a script over the phone (that's how it's done here, you don't need a script in hand or a drs. order to the pharmacist to get prescription medication) and one dose of the medication makes him feel better

12/12: More shopping, measurements, etc., as you can see not much was done by way of sight-seeing, but we've eaten out some and enjoyed it but Atul seems to have suffered as a result

12/13: Atul now coming down with a cold, what's so ironic about the whole thing is that most of the medication that we traveled with was for the kids because I was so worried about them falling ill, I did not take into consideration that we could too. That night I rubbed some vicks on Atul's feet and made him wear socks, in the mean time we went to bed, all of a sudden at around 2 in the morning I hear a shuffle of feet and see a big head being helped by another big head...Avi was being rushed to the bathroom because he was sick to his stomach...had to puke. Which he did. Twice. Then we brought him to the bed and then I prayed that whatever was affecting him be given to me so my baby would not suffer....guess how quickly that prayer was answered? Almost immediately. Avi slept peacefully, while I was running back and forth to the bathroom. Oh it was not pretty! Anyway, so the day dawned and I basically surmised that since we're used to eating earlier and I guess our bodies are still adjusting, the result was upset stomachs!

All's well right now! Hopefully the rest of the report will be more pleasant!