Bangalore Ho!!

That fateful day finally came. On the 2nd, after a very chaotic week of trying to get the house empty of our stuff, cleaning, sorting out the things we needed to take, and the tasks we needed to complete before leaving, we finally boarded the plane. Nine suitcases, two cat kennels, and many tears later we eventually managed to extract ourselves from the arms of our tearful retinue who showed up at the airport to see us off. It was truly very nice to have everyone (Conner, Ariel, Isha, Dan, Hannah, Ankie and Maya) all there to wish us a good trip.

We survived the 24 hours of traveling fairly well, although the cats were somewhat traumatized by the trip. We had no trouble retrieving them at the airport, no-one even looked at all the paperwork Cindy had so carefully collected to ensure safe arrival in India. We had probably 10 people helping with our bag retrieval and collection to the waiting cars. Luckily I had arranged for 2 cars, there is no way we could have gotten it all in one. We arrived at the apartment about 3 am on the 4th (our bags were almost last to come off), and settled in. We let the cats out of their kennels, and they immediately found a hole in the bottom of the couch and hid for a day there. Ashley came out by herself, but we had to extract Benny. They are now ensconced in Anna's bedroom and appear to be acclimating to a new environment well.

Yesterday(Friday), after about 4 hours sleep, we went house hunting . We saw 7 houses, of which one we liked pretty well and another is ok. The one we liked has a really nice interior design, but is devoid of any furniture and is still to be completed. It also has significant construction going on next door. The other one is further from Anna's school, and from my work (at Sobha Malachite). We still have to decide if we will go look at apartments today.

All in all things are progressing. We have to go Monday to take care of paperwork (i.e. residency permits), and work starts in earnest on Tuesday.
That's all for now.