Dallas to New Delhi - September 20-21

Christi has been working on adopting a child for over four years. Soon after we started dating she signed with a new agency and got matched with a little girl from India. Her name is Girija and she is two and a half years old. The adoption finally went through and we got the call to head to India. Over the next 10 days I will share our journey.

On Monday, September 20th we started our trip to New Delhi, India. We took off at 3:25 pm from DFW and landed in Amsterdam nine hours later.

After a three hour layover it was another nine hour plane ride to New Delhi. Our coordinator, Rajeev, & his driver, Papu, picked us up at the airport at 1:00 Wednesday morning. Rajeev will stay with us the entire trip and help us with the necessary paperwork. Rajeev set up our hotel reservations at the Hotel Saptagiri which is close to the airport and the American Embassy. This is a hotel that he typically uses for families since it is centrally located and kid friendly. We drove through pothole filled dirt roads into this area that was crammed full of shanty businesses and homes all piled on top of each other. Right in the middle of it was our hotel. Fortunately the inside looked much better than it's surroundings. We checked in, visited with Rajeev for a short period and then went to sleep.