I've had an interesting travel itinerary to get to India. I left the SL International Airport on Saturday morning at 10:05 a.m. and arrived at the Chennai Airport on Wednesday at 2:15 a.m. Yep! That's right - nearly 4 entire days to get to India.
The first leg of my trip was SLC to JFK - I arrived at JFK and had about a 4 hour layover. My boss had told me "you have to go to China Grille while you are in NYC". Why not - I have 4 hours to blow! So - I took a cab $60 each way ($45 +tolls and tips) into Manhattan and ate at the China Grille! It was awesome! I arrived back at JFK about 2 hours later -and much to my surprise the Departure board on the flight to Dubai said "Delayed - Next Day".
I had to check into a hotel that night - which was 1000x better than sleeping on the floor in the airport (which many many other people did).
I got back to the airport at 5:00 the next morning, and my flight left about 8:30 a.m. Unfortunately tho - this little delay meant that I could not leave Dubai for Chennai until 9:00 p.m. the next night, which meant I had an 18 hour layover in Dubai.
The trip from JFK to Dubai was a 12 hour plane ride... Luckily I slept for the first 6, then watched "Enchanted and Juno" and about 6 episodes of friends, ate dinner (gross) read two
people magazines, fell back asleep, woke up and it was time to land.
(BTW - I had a mom and her 3 year old daughter sitting next to me... let me just say this..
Moms - if you are taking your 3 year old child on a 12.5 hour plane ride... bring a freakin' book, puzzle, toy, whateva".)
Arrival in Dubai - again another check in at a hotel - but now I'm in the Middle East! How exotic. So many Shieks - so little time! I LOVED THE SHIEKS! I saw about a million of them! It's illegal to take their picture, so I had to sort of pretend I was taking a picture of something else and they just happened to be in the way.
After we checked in - we went to the mall. (we in this story = me and a guy I work with) The best part of this trip was coming back from the mall (not the mall itself). We had to take a taxi to and from the mall, and when we went to catch a taxi to take us back to our hotel they told us that we had to go inside and there is an area where you pick up the taxi. So - we got to the "taxi area" and we saw a line. We were like "dang it" because there were about 15 people in line ahead of us. What we didn't know was at the end of the line - the line turned... This picture is the "actual line" - not the fake 15 people line. There were about 400 people (not an exaggeration) in the taxi line. We waited exactly 1 hour and 15 minutes to catch a cab for a taxi.
Hello, Hello... I don't know why you say Dubai - I say Hello!
The children here love to see me aim my camera at them! Unfortunately, most of the time, I'm in a car, going about 40, so it makes it difficult to get really good shots. But here are a few of the friendly faces of the boys in India. Tonight - Jim and I decided to go for a walk. We walked just outside the fence of our hotel and there were two boys walking our direction- holding their pet duck. These boys live just about 30 yards behind our 5 star hotel in a shack with a thatch roof.In fact- when I walk into the hall - I can look out the window of the hotel into their tiny little village. They were so excited to have their picture taken with their duck and they loved being able to see it on the screen of the digital camera. 
