Our ayah, Poonam, came with glowing recommendations and her interview went very well. Zach adores her and she was very easy to talk to and seems to be very honest and forthright. She starts Friday morning.
Zach spotted the elephant. We were on the second floor of Good Earth in Khan Market. Zach was staring out the window and suddenly shouted, "Mama! Elephant!" Sure enough, an elephant lumbered down the street with a bright carpet on its back.
Grocery shopping in Delhi is a challenge. In the future I will leave both boys with Poonam or send her for groceries. Between the crowds, the tiny stores, and the boys with baskets following behind trying to "help" it is incredibly difficult to concentrate. But the commissary is just too expensive to use long term. Once Poonam is established we can begin getting all our groceries in local markets.
The car accident happened this morning. The boys and I went to the embassy to get polio shots and groceries. On the way home someone side-swiped our taxi. It was really pretty minor; the offending vehicle took much more damage. There wasn't even a bump, it just slid across the side. His front bumper appeared to have caught on some part of our taxi. The drivers got out, yelled at each other for about a minute, conversed with a nearby policeman, and we were on our way. Traffic barely even slowed around us. This all happened in a round-about.
The upholsterer supposedly comes tonight, but he was supposedly coming yesterday, so who knows.
