Jen & Jess hit India!!

Friday morning I arrived, and Friday morning Jen and Jess arrived into the new Shamsabad airport. I met them after some time with Indian strands of Jasmine for their hair. I'd caught the government bus (11rups) out and it stopped about 10 mins from the airport and everyone got off, and I was like WHAT is going on? The some man explained that the driver was having a dinner break for 10 mins. I couldn't believe it. Is this a bus service or what? My bad cause I should've left a little earlier, but as it was, another man motioned to a bus stopping ahead of us and said airport. I jumped off the bus, and ran across, in the meantime dropping the bag of Jasmine and had to race back for it and only JUST made that bus!!! Then somehow I thought it was ridiculous they were asking for me to pay again, and showed them my tickets purchased from the last bus, motioned that the bus driver was eating rice and loved their goodnatured response.

It was good to see Jen after such a long time. She left back in November last year. Having Jess in India was a thousand laughs a minute, and I heard all the stories from their week in Singapore just on the way home from the airport. We got into the free A/C airport bus and what is playing? The Titanic theme song, well of course, why not? But reasonably random!

Back at the flat I received excess chocolate from friends in Australia thinking of me which was cool. Saturday we shopped till we dropped and then went out to IndiJo's in South City with Cathy Morgan (Oz) for a special welcome to India dinner.
See facebook for photo's!!

Sunday clad in new Punjabi's the girls rocked up at the Hyderabad to hear Jon Hewitt exhort. It's always so much easier for us to spiritually stimulated when we have someone speak that speaks English as their first language. It was strange not to have Sarah around though. I felt like I'd lost a sister somewhere!

Back at the compound Tim and Sarah put on lunch (as usual) for everyone and we got lucky enough to see their Maldive trip photo's before partaking of a roast lunch. Tim had to go to the Maldive's to get a new passport.

Monday morning I booked tickets for us girls to head to Visak the following day, and in the afternoon we took Jess out to Shunem.