May 25-27th: The Travel

             At first we thought our flight to Newark was cancelled which was definitely going to mess up our connections but fortunately it was the 12:30 flight before us that was cancelled and our 3:15 flight was just delayed an hour and a half. We took advantage of that delay and wandered around the airport checking out different restaurants and getting our fill of non-Indian food. Eventually we did reach Newark and we had about an hour to kill before boarding which meant lounging around with the gazillion other Indian people that were waiting for the same flight. This was the first time we were taking a direct non-stop flight to India.

Fourteen and a half hours and we’d be there.

             As much as I hate airports and flights it was nice that we wouldn’t have to stop and have a layover and waste more time. I will say that United has a great movie/TV collection. Food is so-so but for 14 hours on a flight there better be some good entertainment. Four movies and eight hours of sleeping, we finally landed in Mumbai.

           I definitely have to agree with Russell Peters when he talked about landing in India. You’re excited all the way up until the time you get off the plane and realize that it smells like someone took a dump right in front of the plane. You can definitely smell India before you see it.

           We landed around 9:30pm and our flight to Nagpur wasn’t until 6:50am on Sunday so we had a ton of time to kill. This was definitely the fastest that we had gone through immigration though. Our OCI cards took us through a special lane where no one was waiting so it took us 5 minutes to get through immigration and 45 minutes to get our luggage. As always, our luggage was the very last to come out.

           Compared to the international airport in Mumbai, the domestic airport is amazing and clean! Which is great since we had to hang out for 8 hours and I’d much rather sit in a place that doesn’t smell like a dumpster for that long.

            One Tree Hill and Friends has definitely been my savior so far. I don’t think I will ever tire of watching episodes of Friends over and over again and that is what I did for our long wait.

Thankfully our flight to Nagpur was short and sweet and we were sitting next to a mom with her 8 month old baby girl who was adorable and I got to play with her for most of the flight.

          Finally landed in Nagpur around 8am, got our luggage and met Dr. Jain and we were done traveling for another week.