Wednesday, April 6, 2011

So Far Away In India

Kevin has been in India on business for the past week and a half.  I can't wait until he gets home.  He should be home tomorrow afternoon.  We have been using Skype a lot, so that has helped.  Wyatt gets excited every time he sees him on the monitor.  His first word is "Dad", even though he said it a few days before Kevin left, now he really uses it.  He says "Dad" every time he sees Kevin's picture, it is too cute.  He also said "duck" 2 days ago.  Hopefully "Mom" is next, wishful thinking right?  While he was there he got to visit the Taj Mahal, he loved it.  Right now what I love...tomorrow afternoon.  We miss you babe.

I wanted to add a few pics from my trip.  It was hard being away but am definitely very fortunate to have the opportunity to travel to such an incredible place.  I was there for a strategic planning meeting that we wanted to hold at our site in Gurgaon, India since our site has grown to >1000 people there.  It was a great trip professionally and personally since we were able to build even stronger bonds with our team there.  Here are a few pics.

We traveled to the Taj Mahal on the Saturday we were there.

It was even more incredible and beautiful than I could have imagined.

A pic of the India and US team members that came together for the meeting.

The next two pics give a view of the stark contrast between prosperity and poverty that still exists in India.  This is a view from the beautiful Westin hotel where we stayed and had our meetings.  You can see a glimpse of the pool and spa building that are on the property.

 Zooming in on a portion of the pic you can see a tent city that is next to the hotel.
 Here is our building in India.

The India and US call center teams that came together for the meeting.

 India won the Cricket World Cup the Saturday that we were there and it was one of the biggest celebrations in India's history.  It was great to be there to celebrate with them.

Kaushik and I after India won the World Cup.

Transportation and safety laws particularly remain out-of-date as we saw many times while driving on the roads.  Here are two parents and their young kids traveling on one motorcycle.

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