I will have the McVag... I mean McVeg please

We are now only 5 days away from boarding our plane and heading home... Hopefully... The breaking news yesterday about American Airlines filing for bankruptcy was a little scary! But hey, isn't American Airlines the only U.S. airline company that hasn't filed for bankruptcy over the past couple years? And what can really happen in only 5 days? LOL!


Not much has been going on here... Work, sleep, work, sleep, work, sleep, shop, sleep... Pretty much the norm now.


We did receive the U.S EMBASSY NEW DELHI DECEMBER NEWSLETTER today... Did you know...


Forced Marriage
The U.S. Department of State's highest priority overseas is the protection and welfare of American citizens. It considers the issue of forced marriage to be a violation of basic human rights and a form of child abuse. Often, victims are subjected to non-consensual sex, physical and emotional abuse, isolation, and threats of violence. International law and conventions also support an individual's right to self-determination, minimum marriage ages and the rejection of abuse of women and honor based violence.
The U.S. Embassy in New Delhi is willing to assist victims or potential victims of forced marriage.  If you or someone you know is an American citizen in India who has been, is being, or fears being forced into marriage against your/their will, please contact the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi.


Brett thinks that I probably scare everyone too much to even have to worry about it! LOL!


We did finally make it to McDonalds this week for lunch. You know we just HAD to! Pictures are below. The funny thing is that pictures were not allowed in the restaurant... or so Brett was told when he was capturing the masterpiece below! The meal was ok... Brett had a two roll of toilet paper night, if you know what I mean.


On Friday, we will be releasing our list of demands that must be readily available upon our return home! Releasing our lists on Friday should give our spouses an ample amount of time to fulfill them by Tuesday. Hint, hint!


Pictures below and more updates to come this weekend! 


This blog will soon be retired! Awww.... I know you are all sooooo sad!


Oh yeah... more pics of food below... Our lunches and dinners.


Hope you are having a great week so far!

My dinner one night... It did not taste the way it
looks! I won't tell you what Brett said....
I am sure you can figure it out!

This is part of Brett's lunch one day... He was calling it his
biscuits and gravy that he has been so desperately craving. And no...
It was not even close to tasting like biscuits and gravy.

This is a "bread" like "tortilla" thing... made out of ground up rice.

LOL! The pic that Brett got busted taking! TFF!!!

One of the trays of food and drinks... Looks normal...
There!

This was the "Big Mac" - The Chicken
Marahaja Mac, fries and a coke. 

The menu... yeah I know it is blurry... Did I mention
we were not supposed to be taking pictures?

This was my McSpicy Paneer (Vag). It was ok... a little
dry... and NOT spicy!

This is the McVeggie... I should
have taken a picture after Brett's first bite.
It was totally green in the center. 

This was my McSpicy Chicken. It was ok... a little
dry... and NOT spicy! LOL!

Yeah... you still can't read the menu in this one either! 

Brett's Lunch today... Yes... That is an egg! And that little
bowl in the center is the "sweet" for the day... Brett loves his
runny deserts! :)

My lunch tray today... I also grabbed and egg...
Living on the WILD SIDE!

My dinner tonight! Dal Mahkani! My favorite meal... yes it
is Vagetarian! But I don't care! This is one of the dishes I will be making
when I have my Indian themed dinner party!

Brett's Pizza he had for dinner tonight... Brett... Is it Hot enough now? 

This is a big A$$ bug that was outside yesterday!
The bug is to the left... :)

If only you knew what we had to go through
to get this picture! LOL! But we got it! Please
read the 5th line under the heading ALARMS... LOL!

Namaste!

Blahhhhhhhh... cough cough ... sniff sniff

Well... not going to be much of an update today... I got sick on Thanksgiving. Probably from the ice in the drinks and/or eating with my nasty hands that, I had even mentioned that, I should not have been doing! Either way, I let my guard down for one afternoon and it has been kicking my butt ever since!

Thank goodness for Brett's wife Judy! Thanks to her for packing AM and PM cold medicine and some antibiotics! Oh... and thanks to Brett for sharing, and going to the doctor to get the antibiotics! Today I feel a little better ... and Brett has mentioned twice that I don't look like total Sh!t anymore!

You know I don't feel good when we didn't even go shopping this weekend, mind you, we did have to work on Saturday... but any other weekend we would have totally still went somewhere! Not this weekend... went to work... and then to bed! Today we have been working all day... ok since noon... but we are about to call it a day... after I finish this blog ...  so Brett thinks I am still working... :)

Well we only have 8 days left! We are definitely going shopping next weekend! Our last weekend here! I have to go get my Mehndi's redone and go buy those gold playing cards that I wanted to buy the first week we were here... haven't seen them anywhere else!

Hope you all had a GREAT Thanksgiving and a wonderful weekend! I am going to drive Brett totally crazy this week by playing Christmas music at the office all day! LOL! I cannot wait!!!

This is a picture I took of Brett working across the hall in his room.... Yes, everyone
walks by and thinks we are crazy! And yes... Brett still thinks I am working! LOL!

Happy Thanksgiving From India!

Danielle And Brett... Giving "Thanks!" This is just a random sign that we see every night driving home from work.
Thought it would be perfect for today! And... the ants were tearing me up!

Happy Thanksgiving!

I am not going to get into the whole emotional Thanksgiving mumbo jumbo... not because I am cold and heartless... it is because we are already having a hard enough time not being where we should be today!

So... with that said... We went shopping again today! lol! (Judy - there are a couple of things I am not supposed to tell you... so I will have to talk to you when I see you next!)

We also enjoyed our Thanksgiving Day meal... not as much as what we are currently missing at our homes... but it was making the best out of the situation. We ate at TGI Fridays... LOL! We had a couple of drinks... ate some ok "interpretations" of the already mediocre food at an American TGIF. Pictures are below. I was just happy to order something "mexican"!!!! I miss me some mexican food! And the chips and salsa my husband sent are about spent!

That is it for today... we are going to try and catch up with our families and spend the day watching them eat, over Skype of course!

My day before Thanksgiving meal at work.

The menu... :)

Our Thanksgiving appetizer course!

Brett's Thanksgiving Feast... consisting of a trio of differently prepared
chicken tikka (pieces).

My Thanksgiving Feast... Stale Chicken Enchiladas!
At least it wasn't a complete vagetarion meal!

Brett enjoying our post feast "coffee!" I had to pee
so bad, I didn't take pictures of the dessert course!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

D

Mr. Mustache!!!! And other randomness...

Hello all!

Well ... we finally got over our fear of the big gun, and the inability to communicate, and asked Mr. Mustache to pose in a picture!!! Here he is... LOL!

This past weekend ... we of course went shopping again! But... we were also fortunate enough to witness two different Indian Weddings!

The first wedding started late Saturday night... Brett yelled over to my room that I needed to come look down on the street... There were a bunch of people, lights, and a man riding a horse. At first I called him a prince... I was wrong! We decided to hit the street and see what was going on first hand (but, of course, were still stuck behind the walls of the hotel).

We went downstairs and watched through the gates... There was a live band (not what you are thinking), a lot of dancing, fireworks, and, of course, the GROOM on the horse! We watched (and took pictures and video, both below) the precession down the street and up to the back gates of our hotel. More fireworks, more dancing, more music! Then the epic event occurred! The group of men and women combined inside of the gates, the groom got off of his horse, more dancing, more music, no horse.

The epic event I previously mentioned was when a couple of young men noticed Brett and I watching them from afar... they motioned us to join... and then came and grabbed Brett and pulled him in! The video is hilarious! Yes, again, I was laughing hysterically at Brett's expense. I know... I am a horrible person! If you would like to jump straight to the part where brett dances... scroll to 1:06 minutes in!

Well, during this ceremony... we had pegged who we thought was the Bride... but it wasn't until late Sunday night that we determined that we were wrong, and that at no point in time the previous night, did we ever see the bride. During the wedding pre-ceremony on Sunday night we were told all about the ceremonies, their meanings, etc. The bride does not come into play for about 2 hours into the event! During the Sunday night wedding... we were taken around the back of the hotel so we could "spy" on the event from the shadows of the building... it was beautiful! During the Sunday night wedding I was able to grab a couple of pictures of the bride! Absolutely gorgeous! The two celebrations were close to the same in many ways... but very different in many ways. The wedding Saturday night was a PURE celebration! Everyone was dancing, laughing, singing, having fun! The wedding Sunday night ... was like... yeah, yeah, yeah... are we there yet? Well... come to find out, one wedding was a marriage for LOVE and the other was an arranged marriage... I will let you figure out which was which.

The countdown to go home has begun! Less than two weeks! These past few days we have really been feeling it! We are tired, stressed, depressed and ready to be with our families!

Brett had some Jasmine tea after dinner the other night, that he loved! (it was NASTY!!!) We finally ate dinner at the other restaurant located in our hotel... We have been avoiding it because it is sooooo expensive... but we just had to have something different for one night! This place is called Satin and is a Chinese/Japanese/Thai/Korean restaurant... LOL! The food was actually really good... at least it was different! Well... the food was good until about 4am... when both of us (without each other's knowledge, until the next morning) were unexpectedly woken up by our stomachs (and other unmentionables). The next day was a little rough... be we made it through like champs!

Brett has begun making fun of me... because everything I am eating is Veg. He is afraid I am going to become a vagetarian!

Tomorrow is going to be a rough day ... It is Thanksgiving! And we will be missing out on SOOOOOO much good food!!! And, of course, the time spent with friends and family (but mostly food)! JK! So to ease our pain (at least mine) we are going to go shopping! Surprise, Surprise! But, we are also going to try and find a place to eat lunch that serves something that we can pretend is Turkey. There is NO Turkey here! Or stuffing, or good mac-n-cheese, or collard greens, or pumpkin pie, or sweet potato pie, or cranberry sauce, or Momma Bohannon's spicy-cheesy-green beans!

Today is the busiest day of the year for us at work... So if you work for us, and are reading this... GET BACK TO WORK!

Oh yeah... I forgot about the "argument" outside of our hotel on Saturday night!!!! The valet guys crashed the car! There is some choice language... amazingly enough... it is not me! Viewer discretion is advised!

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving all! Please enjoy, and appreciate, all that you have and everything, and everyone, that is a part of your life!!!!!

Danielle

Random pics below:

The Groom on a horse

Uncle Fester!

Fireworks... Duh!

The outside decorations for the Saturday wedding.

Fireworks in the street... 

More fireworks in the street... 

See that little red car... That was the dowry

Food delivery guy... trying to get by the wedding party
in the street!

View from Brett's room

Bridal party from the Sunday Wedding.

The view from behind the hotel ...
where we were hiding.

My favorite dinner... Brett is calling me a
Vagetarian!

Brett went out on a limb and tried a
hamburger one night! Lol! Bet he
doesn't do that again!

The valet's handy work on the car!

Cows walking by the hotel one morning.

Two guys watching me from
across the street. LOL!

Decorations outside for wedding #2.

Wedding #2 dowry.

More bride pics... wedding #2

The HUGE beehive outside the window
at the hotel!

Work food menu.

The EVEN BIGGER beehive outside
the window at work!

The funniest print ad ever!
The rules of driving... lol! Pedestrians have
the right-a-way! Yeah right! Honk, honk,
get out of the way!

Lunch... yummy!