3/2 - New Friends, Shopping, & Changing Perspectives

This is just a placeholder, assuming I muster enough energy to fill out this entry at a later date.

Its currently 6:30pm here (midnight in oz - which is what it still feels to me). Today we
* Arose late (after being awake at 4am and finally getting back to sleep).
* Got to speak to the kids (using skype - wonderful tool) after their first day at school.
* Met some new friends in Thierry& Christine from France.
* Planned our trip to Agra tomorrow.
* Took a ride by auto rickshaw to the Defence Market area nearby and did some minor shopping.
* With Thierry & Christine went off to do some tourist shopping and also have a nice but very late lunch.

We're planning to go out for a drink somewhat later - lets see if that happens. {Back again 3 hours later}. Drinks didn't happen; we had long chats on taxes, lifelong learning, poverty, etc. on the roof garden with Kristine & Thierry in the nightime fog and surrounded by the (not so) distant sound of Delhi traffic (i.e., near incessant horns).