We made it back!

...but none of our luggage has yet. They say it will be delivered in the next couple days, but also don't know where it is, so...

Man I am tired. It's 8:23pm now, and it's looking like an 8:30 bed time.

Note: a three-and-a-half hour connection time in Mumbai is pretty tight

Sheesh!

Eclipse!

A SOLAR one!

Using SCIENCE I was able to see what the sun looked like without significantly burning my eyes.

See that in the middle of the shadow? It's the sun, with a good half of it covered from the right top.



Now see? The sun is almost completely blocked.

I also took a bunch of pictures with my real camera directly at the sun, with a dozen or so improvised filters until I found one pinhole / lens setting combination that worked out well, and by "well" I mean at least like this:


Neat, huh?

Shopping

The last few days have been largely shopping days for me with Vishaka and her mom. Lots of good things have been got!

And one day we rode around in an ambassador!

It turns out that over-stuffed bench-style seats are one of the worst ideas for car seats ever. I sat in the front but there was never enough leg room, and my head was nearly always pressed uncomfortably against the ceiling.

So, now I can say I've ridden in an ambassador!

Another dog

I think the word "puppy" doesn't apply until it's old enough to be playful, so this is still a "baby dog," taken in (and from the clutches of a strange monkey, no less) by a friendly family down the street.

She liked me. And the cuff of my pants. A lot.


She fell asleep like this, head buried in the cuff of my pants.


I don't have any pictures of this strange monkey because it was too dark, but we saw him sleeping on the roof of the house of this family. We suspect it's the same monkey that apparently picked up Brownie and, according to the maids, set him on a bicycle seat and sat down behind him, like Dorothy and Toto.

This was probably not exactly a wild monkey, but one that was previously trained and (I assume) performed tricks with small dogs?

Either that or it just has a thing for adorable little dogs.

I mean... monkeys don't, you know, *eat* puppies, right?

Right?