Why can't I get a Kingfisher on Kingfisher??

After a long college fair in Delhi, we loaded everything into a bus and headed to the airport for our flight to Mumbai...we had a quick flight on Kingfisher (where you are not able to be served a Kingfisher on domestic flights) and after a long bus ride we arrived at our hotel in Bombay.

We spent a lot of time in traffic in Bombay, it is a densely populated and the roads are not awesome. Once we figured out that the Sealink would take at least 30 minutes off of a lot of our journeys, the tedious sitting in the back of a bus became a little bit faster. We spent about 2 days here but most of it was consumed with work. We did get a chance to go to Doby Ghat which is the neighborhood of Bombay most well know for its unique laundry facilities. People here literally beat the dirt out of clothes and this seems to be the big laundry facility of choice for many local companies. It was a great cultural experience and was a good non-work related activity for the city. On our last night in Bombay, a bunch of us sauntered over to this great karaoke place that was a few blocks from our hotel. We butchered about 10 different songs including we are the world and were pretty much the most obnoxious people there, but it was fun!

After we left from Mumbai, we flew down to Bangalore for a quick 36 hours before my trip was over. College fair, school visits, final dinner and then a 2:20 am flight to paris and then that brings me to today. Now back home and hopefully avoiding this supposed snowicane!

Only 1411 Tigers left in India...

I am in the midst of spending just over a week in the second most populous country on Earth, which is another new destination for me!! It only took about an entire day of travel to make it from Boston to Paris to Delhi to even begin this adventure. En route I got to travel in the upper deck of a 747 which has always been something that I have wanted to do, so I got to check that off of the bucket list.

My first day in Delhi started with a trip to the Red Fort of Delhi and a visit to Gandhi's memorial. My only regret from my trip to delhi is that I did not have another day to visit the Taj Mahal, but it does give me a great excuse to go back and visit again!

As soon as you step off the plane or turn on the tv here in India you are bombarded with advertisements explaining how few wild tigers are left in India. So of course they show tiny tiger cubs that look sad and of course how can you not want to help them out... anyway to learn more check out save our tigers, hurry or it might drop to 1410....

Delhi was a great first stop in India and now its off to Bombay/Mumbai!

DC, Luke, and the first batch of home brewed beer!

So last weekend, we got a plane to meet up with my parents in Washington, DC. It was freezing in RI, but clear and certainly not snowing. As soon as we landed in Baltimore, the flakes started to fall and then by early afternoon there were at least 6-8 inches of snow covering the DC streets. While most times of the year it should be the opposite and we should have left snow to go to a place without any, but this time, no such luck!

We spent most of the time hanging out with my family and my cousin's place and hanging out with our friends in DC. We spent less than 36 hours in DC, but they were all fun! We hung out at Rocket Bar in Chinatown, where people had a strange obsession with Big Buck Hunter...

Back in RI the week has been pretty low key, with one exception. We opened our first batch of beer which had be sitting in bottles conditioning for about 2.5 weeks. The beer was a nice easy drinking Witbier! We also bottled our second batch, which will be an American IPA. Finally we put the 3rd batch in the barrel, "Cold Morning Maple Wheat Beer". This is the most exciting one so far. The rest of our Witbier and IPA will be enjoyed at Jeanne's birthday later this month!

I'll be heading over to India in 2 weeks and China in just over a month!