First day in Pune

Good morning!

We got to Sylvia's home in Pune at 7pm last night (morning for y'all) and finally met Sylvia for the first time! She is so sweet and we are getting along really well. She has a room mate Claudia who is here from Mexico so we make a fun household. I think we should each have a night to cook for everyone a favorite food from our countries, lol. Sylvia's house is soo nice. Spacious and clean. We have a room to ourselves with a bathroom, a big bed and a big bowl of candy, lol. We feel pretty spoiled.

We traveled by bus and Huda, Gideon and I slept the whole 3 1/2 hr drive. Every once in a while I would wake up, mouth open and hair sticking up everywhere from rubbing on the seat and all the sticky humidity, see that we were still driving and konk out again...so the drive was pretty nice for us.

Pune is SOO nice!! The weather is way nicer than mumbai...breezy and much much less humid, I love it! The whole erea is nicer, very green and a little neater appearing than Mumbai. When we arrived we went out to dinner and there wasn't a single thing we tried that we didn't like. Huda decided he just wants to eat garlic naan bread every meal as well as a sweet chicken curry dish that I can't remember the name of. On the way back it began pouring like crazy, huge drops of water pouring down...Huda and I soaked our clothing (our only clothing beacuse we still don't have our bags) but Gideon stayed nice and dry under an umbrella, lol. Even tho we were all wet we loved it...rain feels like home in Oregon!! Some neighbors of Sylvia's were soo nice and brought some clothes for Huda and Gideon and Sylvia lent me some clothing, so it all worked out. I'm afraid I don't remember thier names, but the neighbors are so nice! they came to visit us this morning and Gideon just fell in love with the husband. He got down and just played and played with Gideon and then he gave him chocolate so, you know, now he's Gideon's friend for life. He is skinnier than Huda but he had a random pair of jeans that he had bought that were too big but just Huda's size...he said GOd must have had him buy them just for Huda. He invited us to come to a youth meeting tomorow and share out of the word and think of some games to play...Huda is nervous but agreed to do it. Hopefully we will bless the youth. I guess it is a holiday tomorow so a group of youth gather for worship and fun.

So, everything is going well! Gideon isn't sleeping at night which is difficult but I'm sure he will adjust. We have been up with him since 2:30am...fun. But he LOVES it here! He is charming every person he meets and loves the food. He ate Guavva and banana and lots of Indian cashew cookies for breakfast!

We are still waiting for word on our luggage which I am starting to get a bit anxious about, I am really hoping they call today.

Well, we are going to take Gideon on a walk so I better go (we are trying to keep him from going to sleep as long as we can! I even fed him chocolate this morning!) We are hoping to meet some more people with Hunduo today and try a coffee shop here (my instant coffee with milk this morning was actually quite tasty)

Love the Mckay's!!