Psyched and exhausted...

Hello friends...
We can officially say "Annika and Auggie move to India" 'cause WE'RE HERE!!!

I'm really too exhausted to write much, but here are some highlights:
- my Dad and Kate dropped us at the airport. After checking in and heading to the gate we realized we were one backpack short. I called my Dad, who was nearly half way home and asked if it was in his car. It was, and he turned around and headed back to the airport to hand it off. Thank you SO MUCH!
- the kids were real troopers on the flights - they had to sit still for nearly 24 hours and they did really well. They each had one melt down but they were tired and hungry so we couldn't be upset.
- Business Class was wonderful. But one of the best aspects was being able to use the Business Class "club" at the airport in Frankfurt. There were big chairs to relax in, lots of snacks and beverages, but best of all... showers!!! Beautiful showers after feeling stinky and sweaty. Oh, what a wonderful feeling. And they weren't youth hostel showers, they were private spa-like showers w/ complimentary toothbrush and tooth paste. Ahhh...
- weather in Bangalore is warm and humid, but not too hard to get used to
- traffic is CRAZY and I haven't even seen the worst of it. We have a driver named Gopi who was born and raised in Bangalore and speaks very good English.
- late this afternoon I finally saw two stray cows walking in the road holding up traffic
- went by the DreamWorks studio and got to see where Erik works and got to see a few familiar faces from the SF bus tour a couple weeks ago.
- the house where we're temporarily staying has periodic power outages
- went GROCERY SHOPPING in INDIA! What a trip! And the fresh veggie/fruit area has a weigh station where a person weighs your bag of apples and puts a price tag on the bag so the cashier just has to ring it up... but of course, we didn't know that. :-) They even weigh your watermelon at this station. A kind fellow shopper had to point this out to me. And I went to the bulk rice section and started scooping rice into a bag and gave the bag to the rice weigh station and apparently you're not allowed to scoop your own rice... you need to tell the weigh station guy how many kg of rice you want and he scoops it to your specifications. Oh well...
- People like to touch A&A's heads and people stare at Auggie and give him big smiles
- kids are watching American cartoons on the Cartoon Network and the channel has Indian commercials... fun stuff.

So far my impression... India rocks!
Erik and I agree that we feel like we're on an episode of The Amazing Race... we're skimming the top of Bangalore but it will be much different living day to day. Like we were at the grocery store but never found a dairy section - so we bought cereal but we don't have any milk.

OK, I'd love to write more but my brain is so fuzzy. The kids and I need to stay up for another 2 hours so we can adjust.