Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Delhi Christmas

After spending some time in the state of Bihar I took the train to Delhi to spend Christmas with some friends from Landour Language School.

The party was hosted by Kate who was house sitting for a friend who lives in the in the Residency of the Bulgarian Embassy. Needless to say it was quite posh in the Diplomatic section.

In fact it was so different from the rest of India it was hard to remember what was outside those walls.

Kate created a wonderful (if not a bit ad hoc) Christmas atmosphere with all her perfectionistic tendencies. (including chrstmas cookies and buckeyes)

If you haven't noticed, the cat, Pancake (either a reference to it's strangly flattened face, or a tragic forshadowing of it's demise) was a centerpice of the celebrations.

The celebrations started on Christmas Eve and didn't end until the day after Christmas. Many of the guests were Fulbright scholors or working on their PhD's so conversation stayed lively.

We even got down a little bit to Davids selection of music once Kate got her fill of Christmas music.

One of the highlights for me was playing football (soccer) on Christmas afternoon, which was warm and sunny, just like Christmas day is supposed to be.


Photos complements of David "#1" J. (Too bad he couldn't be in the pictures)

1 comment:

Wade Snowdon said...

Great pics as ususal Dan. I hope you're well. Keep livin' it up buddy. Happy New Year! Happy 1 year by the way! What did you get me for the anniversary? lol!