Monday, June 14, 2010

Visit from Colleen!

As the final week of school was wrapping up, my first visitor of the summer arrived - Colleen! Colleen and I know each other from our study abroad trip to Italy in 2006. I hadn't seen her for over three years, so it was wonderful that she was able to visit for a week. We laid low in Mussoorie for the first 6 days, with lots of shopping, eating, and a few little day trips. Then we headed south into the sweltering heat of the plains. We spent two nights in Delhi and did a day trip to Agra to see the Taj Mahal and the Red Fort. We also picked up visitor #2 - Laura's brother! After the trip to Agra, I said farewell to Colleen and we returned to the (relatively) cool temps of Mussoorie. All the students are gone, but we still have a few staff meetings before summer officially starts.

Classic "pretend we're punching each other" shot at Happy Valley

Wonderfully happy woman at KKM (leprosy colony) in Dehradun

Spinning the cotton yarn at KKM

Random people kept crashing our photos at the Taj

The Taj Mahal as seen from the Red Fort

Happy to have survived the heat - 112 degrees!