The flight to London was great. Mikey played with the truck my friend Kathy gave him and he slept for about 2 hours. In Heathrow we had a few hours we spent in the lounge and then we flew business class (thanks to Rob's work) to India. Wow, once you fly business class you don't ever want to fly coach again :) The food was wonderful and the seats turn into beds, so we all slept for a few hours.
We had 11 checked suitcases which were supposed to be redirected to Hyderabad but unfortunately that didn't happen because Delta and British airways don't communicate. It took a long time to get all the paperwork done at the Hyderabad airport and while we were waiting I had 3 people starting a conversation with me: where are we from; where are we going. People really seem interested. Our luggage should arrive in 2 days: we'll see
The airport was very modern (only 3 years old) and I loved seeing all the signs in Hindi!! Especially the McDonald's sign!! I can't believe they have McDonald's!!! When we walked outside a crowd of people were waiting and they were all bundled up because this is the cold season: it was 11 degrees Celsius. It felt really good to me :)
We were picked up by a hotel car and within a few seconds of getting on the road we saw the first tuktuk!! Mikey was so excited!! Rob had brought him a play tuktuk on a previous trip and mikey plays with it daily. The hotel is absolutely amazing!!! What a beautiful and modern room!! Of course we went straight to bed (we arrived to the hotel about 7am) and when we woke up at about 5.15pm, I was finally able to see outside. It seems that Hyderabad is booming!!! They are building everywhere and they look like nice modern buildings. All buildings seem to have a wall around them. Then you look on the other side of the wall and you see the slums. It really is weird to see such a huge contrast between rich and poor!!
Tonight we took our first tuktuk (or auto ricksha) ride to the mall. Mikey was in heaven!! I'm sure it was funny for the Indians to see two huge westerners sit in a tiny three wheeler :) with a child stuck between us!! Haha!!
The mall was super modern!! We actually had dinner at Chili's!! Everywhere we went people are touching Mikey's hair for some reason... Tomorrow we will probably start looking for some furniture and hopefully on Tuesday we can go look at our apartment. Can't wait!!
Now I have to go back to sleep!! So tired :( I'll try to upload some pics tomorrow. I only took some pics of the food in business class. Did I mention how good it was?! ;)
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