India Trip 2010

We left Bartlesville OK, @ 10:00 am on Wednesday June 2nd. Ryan (my older brother) and I were excited for the trip. This is the first international trip we've taken together. We ate Wendy’s for lunch because it is one of my favorite fast food restaurants. From Houston we flew to Newark New Jersey. We sat next to Gordon, a pilot who trains and flies Triple Sevens (777), a type of aircraft. I saw Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty from the plane and they looked so small. We ate McDonalds as our last ‘real’ meal for a while. Ryan & I flew out of Newark NJ Wednesday @ 8:30pm and landed in New Delhi @ 8:03pm Thursday. It was a 13 hour flight. We passed the time by playing video games that were on the headrests in front of us. We played poker and Ryan beat me most of the time. We then moved to mini golf and I completely dominated him. Since we are both very competitive we started betting push-ups on the games. For every stroke the loser was behind at the end of 9 holes had to do 10 push-ups. Ryan wouldn’t give up even though he was racking up the push-ups. The last game we played I was 1 over and he was 11 over…….that equals 100 push-ups alone in the last game. It was pretty funny.

Ryan owes: 263 push-ups
I owe: 101 push-ups

I watched two movies on the flight, both were good. The first movie I watched was Enemy of the State and it was good. It’ll make you paranoid that somebody is watching you, but besides that it’s great. I watched Shaw Shank Redemption next. It was a slower movie but still a good one.

When we landed in Delhi we passed through customs without one question being asked. We went and paid a cab service to take us to our hotel. Ryan paid the guys 1000 rupees when it was only 300 rupees and he forgot to ask for change so we had to turn around and get our money, luckily we weren’t to far from the stand. We walked out of the airport looking for a cab with the license 699. He drove us to our hotel. It was dark and hard to see things but the drive was crazy. Horns were honking and I thought we were going to wreck 3 or 4 or maybe 10 times. Motorcycles were weaving in and out of traffic and bicycles would just cross the road in front of us as if there was no traffic. The yellow lines, or stripped white lines don’t mean anything (nobody abides by them), our driver was splitting the center line most of the time.

We arrived at our hotel in southern down town area of New Delhi, which is called Saket. It is a Hilton Garden Inn. The room is amazing! I don’t feel like I’m in India right now. We can adjust the softness of our beds and there is wireless internet. Our hotel is connected to a mall that has a Hard Rock Café and a TGI Fridays (those are the two billboards I saw as we drove in.)

I didn’t sleep at all on the plane ride and I’m ready for bed. It’s been a long day of travel and I’m looking forward to seeing and experiencing India.