"I liked it better when everything was in one suitcase," declared Monika as she ran around the apartment trying to get dressed for work this morning. It's a lot harder getting dressed when you once again have the option of everything you own.

"Can I wear these to work?" I asked holding up my new favorite pair of jeans. "I wore them on the plane ... I wore them in India, too. Maybe I better wear something else."

Although I wouldn't say we've had a direct problem with jet lag, we've been going to bed earlier than usual: 8-9pm versus 10-11pm. We've also been getting up much earlier: 4-6am. Not an unwelcome change. I kind of like getting up early. It gives us both a chance to hit the gym before work. Of course, Monika is the only one that has taken full advantage of it so far. This was the first morning that I managed to make it.

I picked up the first batch of developed film this morning. I had dropped off 5 rolls at Walgreens on Friday. I suspected there were a few more rolls hiding in the suitcases. After looking around for a bit, I managed to find another 6 rolls of film on Saturday. That brings the film total to at least 260 photos. I took about 500 digital photos. Although only a small fraction of these pictures will be worth showing to anyone, I'm amazed at how the pictures can act as visual triggers to reawaken a memory from the trip. I was just looking at some of the pictures from the Modera, the Sun Temple


near Ahmedabad and remembering what a fun day we had with Monika's cousins Mukeshbi, Smeetaben, Maloni, and Anal. We drove to Modera in the families SUV. Mukeshbi drives quite fast and a couple of times he missed noticing the speed breakers. So everytime we started approaching a speed breaker everyone would start yelling, "speed breaker, speed breaker".