India and the UAE 
We were on vacation for the last few weeks so I haven't had a chance to update the blog. Here's a brief synopsis of our travels.
We flew into
Delhi via
Dubai at the beginning of December. Met up with the folks and drove up to
Punjab in a rented taxi. We spent about 10 days there visiting friends and some family we still have left there. Some of the places we visited included
Amritsar,
Jalandhar, our village near
Nakodar, the Mrs' village near
Jagraon Ropar/Chandigarh and then back to
Delhi.
The next few days were spent visiting friends in
Delhi and
Noida. We took the
Delhi Metro and I was very impressed with it! I hope they maintain it with the same standard in the long term that they do at the moment. We stayed with family friends in Mohan Nagar near Ghaziabad during this time.
Then we flew to
Bangalore and visited some family members of the Mrs who live there. We also made a side trip down to
Mysore for two days. Saw the forts and palaces in Mysore and
Srirangapatna. That was a lot of fun!
Next we flew to
Dubai where we were going to spend our wedding anniversary and welcome in the new year. Unfortunately the rulers had canceled all fireworks and celebrations because of the conflict that erupted in Gaza so we ended up making it a quiet, intimate evening.
We spent a week in the
UAE traveling to all the different emirates. Did lots of sight seeing in
Dubai itself. Saw the
Burj Dubai, skyline on
Sheikh Zayed Road,
Jumeirah beach, the malls, souks, etc etc. The trip to
Al Ain and
Fujairah was quite memorable. We saw some of the old forts there and drove up to
Jabal Hafeet on what is apparently one of the
twistiest road in the world ( the Mrs actually got vertigo by the time we made it to the top). The Mrs went to her
old school and met some of her teachers. Her family used to live in Dubai before they moved to Canada and she was quite shocked by how much it had changed.
All in all it was a fun vacation but all good things must come to an end. Luckily it appears that we missed out on most of the bad weather here but ultimately there's no place like home. So now back to the regular programming :)
