Awesome Allison Adventure

Today Shelly and I decided to do a half day tour of Delhi. The concierge at the hotel had given us a map and circled a bunch of places that we should go see. We picked a few places, told the driver and we were off.

The first place we went was Raj Ghat which is Ghandi's Memorial. There are also several other memorials in the area. The first thing we noticed about this place was how quiet it was and how green everything was. It was nice just to walk around and not have people coming up to us. It was such a beautiful place.

The next place we went was the President of India's house. Our driver told us that there were 365 rooms in the house. Once we got back to the hotel, I googled to see how many rooms the White House had...only 132.

After that we headed down to India Gate. This is a war memorial for the 90,000 Indian soldiers that lost their lives in World War 1. All the names are inscribed on the gate.

When we were walking up to the gate, a group of guys came up to us and asked to take our picture. At first we said no because we assumed they wanted to take our picture in front of the gate and then charge us. Then he said that his friend wanted to take a picture with us. So we took one. Then when we got back to our car, they were sitting next to it. So I took a picture with him.

The next place we went was the Lotus Temple. It is a meditation temple where you must be quiet inside. A guy at work said that he didn't think we would like that because we couldn't giggle in there.

The temperature wasn't too bad but it was very, very humid. Just in case you were wondering how the white girl fro was coming along, this is my hair when I got back to the hotel.