Delhi Wrap

Nov 11
The conference is finished! Complete with a crazy gala dinner last night and one more long day of talks and poor air quality today (and a trip to the Kebab place).  What a week, great research, great experiencing a new city, and now I can't wait to check out Darjeeling (I need to be at the airport tomorrow for 7:45am, so we are leaving the hotel at 7, still need to pack, and 7am Delhi time, is different than leaving at 7am in any other city I have ever visited).

Me being a bit creepy, waiting for the bus to the gala, we have a WhatsApp group and we were looking for eachother, so I snuck around and took creepy selfies with people from the group (maybe this is one of those things where you needed to be there.  This also shows a major fashion breakthrough for me - pink AND yellow at the same time - it's crazy).

Slightly focused (or out of focus) picture of Anne and me, as we arrived at the gala a bindi or talik (it wasn't explained) was put on everyone's forehead, and some of us got some flower petals thrown on us... that are still turning up a day later.

Katya and Dima - geomorphologists from Russia that were also on the Deccan field trip.  Katya's father was the lead geomorphologist for the Soviet Union, so she comes to the field honestly :).  It was really special to meet these two and I hope to see them again.

Me and two world famous geomorphologists (Olav Slaymaker (Canada) and Katya Lebedeva (Russia)).

The original kids table (Deccan Plateau field trippers).  This was one of approximately 20 attempts - it is sort of the best... yikes, no wonder no one else wanted to sit with us.

New friends!  Three of these people are also going on the Darjeeling Trip (Anne, James (tall guy in the middle) and we are trading German Martin for British Martin - two guys on the right).

Alas - my last supper at the kebab place.  So tasty, I honestly would come back to India just for the Paneer Afghani roll (and probably butter chicken, and the sound track, and that they were always SO happy to see us).

This is the best video I managed of us walking into the Gala - it was way louder - and it was awesome.  A really unique experience.