Jesus, Electrical Fire, and Neverland

Meeting up with Jeremy, and our friends Dave and Chrissy, we left Detroit for Amsterdam (and then on to Delhi) on the 15th. Apart from screaming children, we had an interesting bunch of people on our first flight. With Jeremy sitting on the aisle, he saw a man in his seat with his hand on another man's heart who was kneeling beside him, and a woman standing over the kneeling man with her hands on his shoulders. Jeremy's first thought was - is someone having a heart-attack? I then heard exclamations of "Jesus!" again and again. It turns out there was a group of people headed on a missionary trip to Tanzania. Interesting.

Towards the end of our 2 hour layover in Amsterdam, we waited in line to go through security at our gate, waited in another line to get into the waiting area, and then waited to get in line to board the plane. Talk about practicality. A short time before boarding, we were very loudly shooshed by a lanky Dutch male flight attendant. Listening to the announcement, we were told there was an electrical fire on the plane that had happened moments ago. Annoyed with someone's incompetence, we were lucky enough to get a 777 within about 1.5 hours. Going through the check-in process again at a new gate, we were welcomed by a nice and relatively empty plane. I became teary-eyed watching "Finding Neverland" while Jeremy slept like a baby beside me.

Arriving in Delhi around 1:30am on the 17th, our friend Ash and a driver picked all of us up from the airport. And so begins the India adventures...