Jen, Udaipur and Indian Body Building

I've been slacking with my blog this week due to a busy work schedule and last minute preparations for visitors. Jen arrived in Delhi last night and Mike is scheduled to arrive tonight. In addition, Kory is in Hyderabad for work for a few weeks and is coming up to Delhi for the weekend. It'll be a full house, but also a lot of fun.

Plans for the weekend include sightseeing in Old Delhi on Saturday and then a trip to Udaipur, The City of Lake Palaces, for a few days. Jen and Mike will then continue on to Jaipur, before returning to Delhi on Wednesday. Unfortunately, I changed our plans last week and decided against visiting Jodhpur. This means we'll miss out on all of the fanfare generated by the Liz Hurley-Arun Nayar wedding festivities that are going on there. Lucky us.

I'm happy to report that Jen had a very exciting start to her India trip. After meeting her at the airport, we immediately headed to an Indian wedding! This was one of the more over the top ones I've seen. The whole place was decked out in pink and baby blue, and a bubble fountain and a MOON BOUNCE! We were stuffed with a huge assortments of Indian food that continuously appeared before us, while some guy kept adding really bad Indian whiskey to our glasses of Coke. Jen also got to witness the craziness of Indian men dancing first hand, which is one of the most fun and funniest things about India.

But the highlight for Jen was probably her introduction to nearly every member of the Indian body building community. No, I am not kidding. The brother of the groom is a former body builder (and Commonwealth Games Medalist in Body Building, as we quickly learned) and it seems that all of his body building friends were in attendance and interested in meeting the two American girls there. I can't remember all of the titles, but I'm sure we met the VP and Secretary of the Indian Body Building Association, as well as Mr. India 2005 and Mr. India 2006!

What a start to her trip, but I'm not sure I can keep up this about of excitement for the next week.