Things to love about India: Norah Jones, Fabindia, and The Thackers

Ale and I spent our first night in the Thackers house last night and we are oh so happy!

We went to Fabindia yesterday after waking up and eating some neer dosa (coconut dosa yum yum). Fabindia is amazing. I was in heaven. It is basically anthropologie but better and cheaper in terms of home linens and accessories. There is a huge fabindia clothing and home store about a ten minute walk from the hospital and it has the most beautiful things from all over India. I literally could have bought linens for everything in my house and to wear. I picked up a couple Kurtas, a purse, and some shoes and I could have bought so much more!!! I'm planning to stock up in Delhi (where I fly out of India). Also, speaking of Delhi, ale and I are officially going to a Norah Jones concert in Delhi on March 5. I am out of this world excited!!! And speaking of music, the Swedish house mafia concert got canceled yesterday because the band had some airplane trouble coming from Indonesia. It was quite unfortunate. Even more unfortunate, they rescheduled to tonight and would not refund our money. Ale and I have work today and tomorrow and we have to get our student visas registered and The Thackers came back from Calcutta so we did not want to go tonight! But can you believe that- in India they reschedule a concert to the next day and do not refund your money!!! Norah better not disappoint!

Back to yesterday. So we walked to fabindia and then Vishal (ale's sisters boyfriend's little brother) picked us up and brought us back to our dorm so we could move out!!! We went back to the Thackers house to move in. We love the Thackers! They are such a wonderful family! Vishal shared the meal his maid had made for him - daal and some "gravy" as he calls it- potato masala deliciousness and lots of parantha (heavenly bread) and then we ordered some green, red, and white (malai-cream) kabobs. Yum yum! Vishal even taught us how to eat with our hands so we could fit in in South India. After lunch, ale and I were pooped so we went to our room to rest aka get on wifi like we'd never seen the Internet before. We had been existing on Internet cafes since arriving in India and that was getting old. Hello Skype/Pinterest/aimlessnothingness

Well I'm heading off to bed now! Happy Monday everyone in the USA. It was a good day for us, will have to tell you all about it tomorrow.