When Harry Met Joel and Jesus met Judy

Hello all! It’s Monday afternoon here. It has been overcast most of the day. Yesterday it was as well. But it was REALLY HOT so we were thankful for less sun.

First I will share with you a picture of a pidgin friend that hung out on our railing for quite
a while.


The day of my shot we were at the Galleria and there were a bunch of kids on a field trip of SOME sort we assume. They come off busses, stood waiting to go in groups somewhere in the mall. They seemed to come back out in only a few minutes so we are clueless.
None the less…

Aren’t they cute!
GOOD parents giving them water bottles.

Saturday we went off to the mall to get Harry Potter and a bit of book looking.
First we stopped for breakfast #2

MMM, isn’t that pretty? Ya, OK, the ONLY chick who takes a picture of her Mocha. WHAT EVER!! You all do weird stuff too! Plus, that is a work of art! (food from Baristas)

There was Harry Potter Hub-ub that we saw and read about in the paper, but either we missed it or it wasn’t where we were. The book store ROCKED!! It was fun to see the selections they had on religion and Western Philosophy as well as just other stuff. I could have taken home half the store. I restrained myself however. Some books are VERY inexpensive here. The American ones are pretty regular price. For $60 American bucks we got 3 movies and 7 books; 2 of them being Harry Potter.

Below is a picture of one of the other malls we went to here in Gurgaon.

Very full, but really pretty typical for a Saturday

Delhi and Gurgaon has UBER amounts of malls. And building more. There is one not far from here about to open that is HUGE. Next to that is the beginning of the construction of the MALL OF INDIA… This will be the largest mall in the world when it is complete.

Across from the mall above is the City Centre Mall.


A bit different then home eh!?
Oh, and that yellow thing in front... NO, that isn’t a larger then life size model of the baby from South Park. It is an orange juice stand that makes this funky juice out of oranges and other fruits. Quite tasty it is.

The road in between the two malls.

SUPER fun to cross if you like taking your life in to your own hands. Luckily Joel doesn’t mind.

We proceeded to go home and have a read. It was SO nice to just relax with a non required book. Joel with Harry and me with my Jesus Lived In India Book. I’m interested in Harry, but have a million books to read and know it will take me a while to get through that one. Sort of seems counter to what you’re supposed to do when you are half way around the world. But I think both Joel and I are just happy a reprieve from all that has been going on at home the months before we left. The peace is precious and SO needed. And this is a good environment to just be.