Heading Home Soon!

Our adventure in India is coming to a close! Today, Thursday, is our last full day in New Delhi. Tomorrow begins the looong journey home. We do not leave, however until 11 pm, so I guess we actually have another day. Our hotel is allowing us to stay in our room until 6 pm, and then hang out in the club lounge until 8 pm.

We will fly from Delhi to Singapore, and have a 10 hour layover. Unfortunately, we did not secure a hotel room (again - argh!!) and will have a long layover in the transit lounge with an infant.

We arrive in the U.S. on Saturday evening, spend the night in LA, and fly from LA to home on Sunday morning.

Phew!

Luckily I think that we are all somewhat healthy now. Ajay was sick for a couple of days and I was very sick with a stomach ailment yesterday. Hopefully we will all embark on our journey in good health.

A baby update:

Maya is now sitting up on her own! Yay! She is also beginning to crawl a little bit. Not much yet, thank god! We must child-proof when we get home!

She is sooo wiggly and full of energy now - I have no idea how she will handle this airplane ride. We plan to have a little squealing monkey climbing all over us for 22 hrs. Maybe we can just set her in the aisle and she can roll up and down it for a few hours!

Maya has also discovered her toes, and one of her new greatest joys in life is to chew on them.

She is very vocal/gabby - which should excite the poor 3rd person in our row on the flights home (much less the rest of the cabin)! It looks like all the legs on the flights home are sold-out, so some poor person will be stuck with us. Let's hope they are tolerant and have ear-plugs. :)

One of Maya's new favorite games is 'peek-a-boo with Daddy'. You can see the photo above.

Well, no matter how long and painful the journey home will be, we are very happy to be making it! 22 hours of flight time, 33:40 hours of travel time. Owch! But we are all ready to get back to a normal schedule and the comforts of home (not to mention the steaks that our fabulous neighbors have waiting for us - we love you guys!!).