Wednesday, June 27 - Thursday, June 28
Well some of us are ready, however there are a few members who will burn the midnight oil ...packing, treating their clothes or making swaps. Eva just dropped off part of my uniform - a white blouse which is now soaking in the infamous Everglades Outdoor Protective Clothing Treatment Insect Repellent. Stuff sounds nasty but we are told it works!
I was up past 12 midnight making swaps. Simply forgot about that agenda item. My swap theme is a Daisy.... With my daughter's wedding being all about daisies I thought it was a fitting swap.
Below is a basic outline of the order of events...
Fly out from Philadelphia to London. Quickly change planes and fly from London to Mumbai. From Mumbai we will take a chartered bus to Pune and our first stop - Sangam World Centre. Sangam is one of four World Centres of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts.
The troop will be attending the following program:
Holistic Living (7 days): July 1-7
Improve your sense of well being through healthy living and eating. Learn yoga and meditation in the safe, serene surroundings of Sangam. Discover thousands of years of Indian culture, philosophy and spirituality as you experience ayurveda, vegetarian cooking, Indian massage and natural medicine.
I think I can speak for Eva,Linda in that we look foward to the "serene" surroundings and especially the Indian massage. Last week, Eva's daughter graduate from high school, my daughter's wedding was on Saturday -June 23 and Linda has been working 10 to 12 hour days.
In addition, to the Holistic Living events, we will experience the excitement of Indian life such as visiting a family in Pune, trying Indian food, visiting an outdoor market and, of course, go sari shopping.
When we leave Sangam on the 7th, we will be on a guide tour for approx. 11 days visiting cities such as Delhi, Agra, Jaipur, Pushkar, and ending in Mumbai.
Spent today -Thursday- running with Linda dropping off last minute materials to parents and buying last minute items. Discovered we had no double A batteries in the house and I needed to have pictures developed for my family album which we share with our host Indian family. No time to put it together now so I leave that for the 15 hour plane ride
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As of 10:30 pm friday nite Philly time I confirmed that our girls missed thier connecting flight in London by 9 minutes. British Air confirmed that they were on the next flight and that they will arrive at Bombay airport at about 1:00 am philly time tonite (Friday late nite / early saturday am, philly time). Ouch - long time on a plane / hanging at an airport. I hope they make the train connection easier.
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