March 18: I finally got my pictures up. Well, some of them. I have an embarrasing number of pictures from this India trip. I had a great time and learned much.

This is at Infosys. We had a great Indian lunch on banana leaves	Here's IIMB - a very prestigeous business school in India. We were able to talk with some of the students there.

March 17:

	A cow was stopping traffice. This is not seen much in the "downtown" portion of a big city, but it does happen even in fairly populated areas.
	We visited Biocon

March 15:

This old tower was really beautiful. See the detail to the right.

March 14:

The Taj Mahal.		This was one of the most incredible sights I've seen.
	Here is a building near the Taj Mahal. It would have been stunning if it weren't for being near the Taj.
		This is the entrance to the Taj Mahal courtyard
	Examine the detail. The dark decorative work is marble inlay. There is a LOT of marble inlay, and that's a avery labor intensive process. See the drain covers made of carved white marble.
	The workers stayed in tents The group leaving the Taj
	A little salesman works on Jeff to make the sale. Josh with some locals.
	Mark with the Taj Mahal in background
	Marble inlay work being done.

March 13:

	Mark at the India Palace Elephants enjoy a bath
	Elephant rides Mark gets to pet the elehant
	This is one of the ceilings at the Agra Fort. See the closer shot at the right.
	Here's a courtyard Krista is pressured by a vender.
	Other scenes I saw this day.

March 11: We visited Standard Chartered Bank and had a very informative presentation/talk that included topics such as the economic trends in the market and government. After that we went sight seeing. We had a Fuqua Friday at the Taj President Hotel (in which we are staying) in the Library Bar. It was great meeting some from the class of 2007. When the live music started, Pranab sang Hotel California with the backup music. He was GREAT! Then Christa danced with the singer, then Claudio sang. He was awesome! The admit's were given quite a show and we had a great time talking to them. Later that night, Matt, Josh Cort and I went to a dance club (Polly Easter's) and got a few drinks. It was interesting to compare to the clubs that I've been to in Atlanta.

	Some of us have a Thai lunch A group of admits!
	Meeting the admits in Bombay was fun. I wish I had a picture of Prashant singing for this crowd. :-)

March 10: We went to CNBC - Channel 18. It was very interesting to hear about the beginnings of this company and where they are today. We had a tour of their operations, including shooting, editing, news flash feeding (like onto the scrolling banners on CNBC), etc. Then we talked at length about their plans and their business struggles. I learned a lot.

	Our visit to CNBC in India
	This supper was fantastic and had many kinds of foods. I believe this was South Indian style. Pam has a Duke's drink!

The first full day we took a bus tour of the city. I took many pictures, but do not have time to load them yet. In the evening we had a kick-off banquet in a very nice hotel.

I wanted to call Laura, but the phone calls were $5 per minute, and I knew that we could likely get a calling card for her to call me. A friend rented a mobile phone with a plan that offered 43 cents per minute calls to the U.S., and she'll allow me to call Laura and have Laura call me. So we'll do that. We've had a terrible time setting up the phone though.

Internet service was not much better. They have a terribly limited system that only allows one computer to connect (both my roomate - Jeff - and I have notebooks so that's not good for us). We finally did get connected, but it's a hassle for each of us, each time we want to connect (we have to call the service desk and have them do something manually).

	We decided to buy a case of bottled water.
	The Coast Line
	The snake charmers were everywhere. But it was disturbing because some of the snakes apeared to be sickly and weak, but they were forced to perform anyway. They also spent their entire day coiled up on that basket.
	This is the Gateway To India. We saw it several times :-) There were many venders of all kinds everywhere, but this was our first introduction to them in India.
	An interesting sign
Jan Temple
	The entrence is to the left, and the right is one section of the ceiling
	Here are two more ceiling shots. The right shows an emblem that looks like a swastika, but it predates that and is a sign of friendship I believe.
	The left shows worshipers, some making patterns in rice on low sitting tables. The right is a ceiling on the outside patio area.
		Men in white at worship.
Beggars outside the temple working Josh.
	Group in a garden Man with monkeys
	These little rikshaws (three wheelers with small engines) were everywhere. Cort and Krista in our yoga session.
	This is the smallest ferris wheel I've seen. A famous laundry in India
	We had a great supper that night. Matt, Claudio and Josh

March 7 & 8: We left at close to 5 PM Eastern time, flew to Kennedy. I was somewhat surprised at how dirty the terminal was. I suppose it's old. At about 7 PM boarded a plan for Paris. In Paris we had a 2 hour layover. As was the case at Kennedy airport, the terminal in Paris was not as clean as I expected. Further, I could not find a good cup of coffee. That was VERY disappointing. There was one place that actually brewed espresso on a good machine, but their credit card machine was broken and I didn't have any Euros. The only other place from which I could buy coffee was a somewhat cheesy place that only had an automatic espresso machine and the coffee produced was truly one of the worst I've had in a long time. And yes, it was expensive too. The airline coffee was much better. So I was glad to board and head to Mambai. Bombay has gone back to its old name, Mambai. The British gave it the name Bombay. But I must admit that I still like the sound of Bombay. The locals here must also because they usually refer to it as Bombay.

The flight to Paris was about 7.5 hours and the flight to Mambai was about 8.5 hours. So the trip took all of the 8th also (we landed at about midnight, so technically it took part of the 9th too :-)).

	Vivian Krista Pam in the Paris airport
At the Bombay (Mambai) airport. We're very tired but glad to be in India.	Mark met Prashant at the Bombay Airport. I've not seen Prashant for 15 years since we were at Clemson together.
	At the Taj President Hotel in Bombay.
	Some of us had to order some Indian food that first night even though it was late.
	One view outside my hotel window in Bombay