My Underground Journey: Oh, Beautiful India!!!! Part 1

India, a place where I was born. A place where my family is from. A place where you call home.

Gitesh and I went back to India after 11years. It was the boys first time, which made this whole trip very interesting. Gitesh and I didn't know what to expect from this trip. We would soon find out if the boys will come to love India or not.

We took a red eye flight to Bombay. Thankfully, all three of the boys slept. Not well enough but they slept. As soon as we were out of the airport, the layers of clothing started to come off. It was 90 degrees. It was so hot and sunny, something we haven't really seen since we left Raleigh. Thankfully we had a short ride to our hotel.

Our room wasn't ready so we went to have lunch at the restaurant that was in the hotel. Staying at the JW felt like we were more in the USA than India. The restaurant had some amazing cake displays that should belong on Food Network.

Ready for lunch!

Once we got to our room, all the boys wanted to do was go to the pool. It was a very low key day.

This is the LIFE!

Talk about amazing costumer service! After we were done swimming we came up to our room to find an apology note with some treats for not having our room ready when we arrived at the hotel late morning. We have never, ever had service quite like this before.

We all had a very hard time waking up the next morning. The time change had somehow taken a toll on us. We missed breakfast and we almost missed lunch. The boys just did not want to walk up. Between not sleeping well on the plane and swimming the evening before, their body needed lots of rest.

We got ready quickly and took a taxi to see Gateway of India. Before we got there, we made a detour to stop for lunch at McDonalds. This is becoming a habit of ours. It's interesting that we never eat McDonalds, but whenever we are on vacation, we go there for a meal as a family. This McDonalds was right across from Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, the historic railway station in Mumbai that was build it 1887.

We headed for the Gateway of India. However, the boys were finding the day very hot and humid. I had to remind them a few times how this is winter. They then asked me if it's so hot in winter, how hot does it get in summer?

After the Gateway, we took the boys to "The Taj Mahal Palace Hotel" that located right across the Gateway. The first thing the boys said was "why aren't we staying here?" Yeah, Gitesh, "why aren't we staying at the Taj?" It was very nice hotel. We had small treats from one of the shops there. That's all we could have afforded from there.