So on our first full day there, Desmond got up ridiculously early as noted, fortunately we didn’t have much planned for the day. My Mother in Law and I went out shopping with one of Dan’s cousins and bought fabric and such for making sulvar kameses (spelling is probably off), but other then that we didn’t do much. Desmond did explore some and get to play with someone’s keys, other then that though it was a low key day.

You can see how exhausted he is in this picture. He definitely suffered from jet lag on the trip.

The morning of day three Desmond again woke up really early around 3am or so. Unfortunately it was not another low key day, it was the first day of traveling and visiting relatives. Now I am glad we got to see all Dan’s aunts and uncles and their families, but it would have been so much better if we had had another 2 days or so downtime before we started making the rounds, or if we had visited one house a day instead of 2 to 3. Desmond would fall asleep in one house and wake in a new one, it was a bit disorienting. We had a rented taxi/car with a driver for the day, no car seat again. Desmond did enjoy wandering the car though.

We first visited Dan’s uncle who also lives in New Delhi, his Aunt passed away a couple of years ago, maybe a year or so after our last visit. Desmond had fun playing at the house and Dan’s cousin’s daughter had a son who was just about Desmond’s age which was nice, though he went down for a nap not to long into our visit, which Desmond tried to do as well but wasn’t quite able to fall asleep with everyone around. I do not remember names of the people in the photos, but the first one is Desmond with his Dada and Dan’s Uncle. The second is him hugging his “cousin”.

He did quickly fall asleep in the car once we’d left though.

We then drove about an hour to Dan’s Boua (spelling? Aunt) Brahmi’s house. Unfortunately this aunt had also passed away, but her son and daughter in law and their two sons live at the house. This is where I was able to use their computer to get online and update the blog and e-mail people. Both the sons speak very good English which is nice, since neither Dan or I speak Hindi. Desmond did wake shortly while we were here, just about long enough to have a glass of Fanta and I think he may have eaten a cookie or two, but can’t remember before falling right back asleep. He really wasn’t a huge fan of Fanta.

He then slept through the rest of the visit and when we got in the car he slept all the way to our next and final stop for the day/evening.

We finished off the day at Dan’s Uncle and Aunt’s house. His Uncle had passed away since our last visit as well (yes it was a bit depressing visiting three houses of relatives where the directly related one had passed on). It was nice to get to our final destination for the evening though. Because of his nap Desmond did stay up for awhile that evening and he got to eat chocolate ice cream which he was quite happy about. He was less happy about us confining him to the bedroom we were in, but the main room has a fairly steep staircase and we didn’t want to watch him every second to make sure he wasn’t climbing up and down them (like he enjoys). It was a fairly exhausting day especially after having been up so early thanks to Desmond’s jet lag.

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