Face of India's Youth

This girl captured my eye while wandering on the Chowpatty beach. It was really interesting to see the differences in beauty and vanity between the US and India. The color palette is much broader in India and you would not typically see a young girl in the US wearing such bold primary colors. I thought it was particularly interesting how much jewelery she had on. It looks like her ears are pierced several times each and jewelery is hanging all over her face. It does look beautiful on her....would I think the same if a girl in the US had the same jewelry on her?

Kite Flying

During the latter part of our day Dave and I spent several hours wandering Chowpatty beach during a festival of kites. There were thousands of people at the beach flying small kites trying to cut each others kites with the string of theirs. We learned that this was part of a traditional celebration for the coming of summer when the winds pick up. We really enjoyed the family atmosphere and smiling faces everywhere.

It was hard to take picture though. As soon as you lifted your camera people would come from everywhere to get their picture taken and would not relent until one was snapped. Despite the constant tugging on our arms and hoots from kids wanting pictures it was a great way to see how families enjoy themselves together.

Cricket

On Sunday morning we started wandering around Mumbai and ran across a huge field with multiple cricket games going on. The fog still hadn't completely burned off and made for a great scene. It reminded me of the ball field down the street where I grew up except we would play baseball instead of cricket. Looking through the gate onto the field game me the sense that although the US and India seem worlds apart when you get down the the basics of what makes us happy we are not very different at all.