Hello Mumbai!

We officially made it and are all moved into Rajiv's brother's flat that he graciously let us crash in! It is definately a different culture already, which we've seen bits of on our way driving here. We've met up wih Lauren who has been co-oping in a small village of India for the entire summer, so it is really nice to have  her along to get us accustomed to the area and foods a little quicker!

We each want to write about our first impressions so I'll start off!

So the plane ride was a little crazy, as you'd expect any 20 hour ride to be! But the meals were amazing, Peggy and I even got special treatment with "special meals" which I think meant vegetarian or sooomething! Besides the babies crying and my tv not working on the first flight, I would say it was pretty successful! I'm excited to see what is in store for us these coming days..
-Haley

Yeah-- about those babies...there were about 5 surrounding us, and the lil one in front of us was absolutely determined to crawl over the seat and grab us!! Between the chorus of babies and failing to come up with ways to sleep "comfortably", I think some of us have only had about 6-10 hours of sleep in the past 3 days...
Driving from the airport to Rajiv's brother's flat was really interesting. I couldn't believe how many people were still out. Some just sitting in front of buildings, some still doing construction work at 2 AM (??) and a million stray dogs roaming and just chilling in the middle of the road.
Well we only have a few hours to get some sleep before we meet with Rajiv's sister-in-law and her company tomorrow, so I'll pass this off to Casey!!
~~~Christine

Hello friends... So we've been on 3 planes in 3 countries in 3 time zones in the past 2-3 days. Needless to say, we are exhausted and can't wait to sprawl out on beds in Rajiv's brother's flat. We were welcomed with such wonderful hospitality. Bottled water stocked. We've been seated in terrible positions in airplane seats for 9 hours at a time. No activity is a killer. But so excited and relieved to finally be in Mumbai and about to engulf in an amazing Indian journey ahead of us :) -Casey

Hi everyone!! It is now 4 in the morning here and we are supposed to wake up at 8 for a full day of plans for Saturday! ah! I guess I am running off of excitement! Right now, I am easing my way into Indian cuisine, with my Kroger peanut butter and some of the ParleG Indian crackers that Rajiv's brother left for us. mmm :) The first flight to Paris was a breeze - movie, dinner, and a nap and we were there! Mom, 1.99 travel pillow was the best thing! thanks! The second flight was a bit longer and I think I was served frozen fish... I was skeptical and had vanilla yogurt with leftover Delta cookies instead :) They didn't have the country music options like on the first flight (Tim McGraw album Lady Antebellum and Sugarland!) sooo I watched a documentary on Indian cuisine hah and read a national geographic on Indian agriculture... the time went by slower. 50% of my luggage made it to Mumbai. One bag is still in Paris! I am sure I can survive without my rice cakes and granola bars. :)
Thanks to Rajiv, for waiting at the airport until 2am! Lauren, you are clearly far more knowledgable about India than the rest of us... so sorry we will be drilling you with questions, and thanks for answering! More tomorrow! I have safely arrived on the other side of the world and I am sooo excited for our adventures ahead! -Peggy