Saturday, February 20, 2010

Blondes have more fun

This afternoon we had time for a cultural outing and went to see the Red Fort. It was amazing and beautiful and I would have loved to have seen it in the glory days. I've never thought of myself as a blonde, but I guess in India I'm relatively blonde. The result of this is that random people ask to take pictures with me- I was happy to oblige, even if it was a little odd.

Not nearly as odd, however, as the moment when I was taking pictures of a fantastic dhalia and all of the sudden I realized that a woman in a beautiful sari was resting her head on my shoulder. She was admiring the flowers with me, "pretty, yes?" "Yes very pretty"


Mahatma Ghandi's gravesite
The Pearl Mosque inside the Red Fort

A lovely collection of ladies in saris

3 comments:

Tender Mercies said...

Yahoo! What great adventures!

Lisa said...

What an amazing trip to be able to go on. Lucky girl!

Anonymous said...

They must looooove the "blondies" over there! Notice the guy standing next to the collection of ladies... he's taking your picture! That's either A) very flattering to have a stalkerazzi take your pic, or B) very very creepy! This is Randi by the way :)