Goodnight India.

Thursday February 26th
I don't have time to write much today but I want to just give a few highlights from the last few days. We arrived in Delhi on Tuesday evening. At the airport we were met my a Sikh Indian man in a rather attractive Punjabi turban who was holding a sign with "Ms Willis" scribbled on it. He also had a super nice pimp my ride India Style SUV with leather interior. So we decided riding with strangers was an excellent idea. This stranger took us to the fabulous guest house that our friend Varun and his family had arranged for us. After unpacking we joined Varun's uncle, a Delhi local, for the best Indian food we'd had yet. I mean this stuff was super super good and we all ordered seconds and thirds and fourths and then went to sleep with what Varun informed us is a "Delhi Belly". (Shout out here to Varun Khanna and Anup Kackar and family. Thank you. Thank you thank you for all your help!!!!!!)
We spent Wednesday shopping for overpriced elephants and devouring McDonalds icecream sundaes. We also found a local park full of artists where we bargained for henna hand artwork at record low prices. In the midst of sundaes and henna and shopping we may have maybe just maybe forgot to see any important tourism sites in Delhi. But just maybe. It was an accident.
Thursday was our official last day in India and in celebration we hired a super nice old man driver to take us to Agra, home of the infamous TAJ MAHAL!!!!!!!! ...oh and also another important building for a guy named Akbar. So we packed our Gandhi shirts and after a too close for comfort call with an oncoming Indian railway train we safely made it to the best wonder of the world we'd ever seen. Come to find out an even bigger wonder of the world is four white girls at the Taj Mahal. When the Vellore Four cozied up for a rest on the sidewalk, an Indian family slyly placed their toddler children next to us for a family photo op. (notice female toddler with best pouting face i've ever seen) In total the Vellore Four cheesed it for approximately 5,000 photos with Indian teenage boys. (ok ok. i'm exaggerating and yes. we secretly really enjoyed it)
Our flight leaves Delhi tomorrow (Friday) morning and we are headed to Belgium for a weekend of jet lag recovery and waffles. And so I guess this is Goodnight to India. Goodnight rickshaws. Goodnight roaches. Goodnight naan and curry and inefficient travel. But most importantly goodnight to the people of this place who tolerated four lost American girls for five fabulous weeks of diarrhea, adventure, and self discovery. We're gonna miss you India.