The next day we visited Fatehpur Sikri, a deserted city built by Mughal Emperor Akbar as his capital to honor a Muslim saint who prophesied the birth of an heir. It was a remarkable red sandstone palace that took 15 years to build and was abandoned after only 14 years because the water supply was not able to sustain the population. We also visited Mother Teresa's Ashram. This was a home for children and adults; some are normal, some are mentally challenged and s...

India is astonishing. One minute you are in a beautiful five star hotel and the next you are passing by a family of five that lives on a tarp. There is no way to describe what we have seen in India. It was astonishing and shocking and beautiful and filthy. We just finished being trip leaders of 47 students to the Taj Mahal; a four day trip. I think I will post it in two or three blogs. We began our trip by flying from Chennai to New Delhi. It was a little crazy...

We are off to a good start in India. Yesterday, we arrived at 7:00am and the ship was cleared by 9:30am or so. We had to meet the immigration officials face to face, so that took a little more time than usual. We met up with some pretty thick bureaucracy upon leaving the port: each person had so show their actual passport (not a copy like we are used to) and their customs forms which listed all electronics that we had with us on the ship. When we went through th...

Today we were checking out the messages that people had posted in response to our blogging and we were so saddened to see two messages containing profanity from Caleb Rupp. We have now removed a total of three inappropriate messages from Caleb Rupp. Well, Caleb, if you can send us a message that all the world can see, we thought we could send you one too. So Caleb, here is a message to you from us!!! Dear Caleb, Geno and I are traveling around the world and exp...

It has been awhile since we have written. Why? We have been soooooo busy! In addition to teaching our classes, we are prepping for the Cabaret which is November 10, coaching the synchronized swimming team for the Sea Olympics (yes you read that right), writing and performing in a pep rally skit for the "Nomer Sea" Olympics Team, grading papers, attending seminars, rehearsing for the Medical Team's presentation, and learning a dance for a " flash mo...