Jaipur, India

Our tour of the Pink City began bright and early because we had a lot to see.  It is called pink, but is more of a coral-orange.  This is the wind palace.  It was located on the main drag and had a bunch of windows so all the king's women could look out at the procession as it passed by.

Here's a guy, going to work.  People get up really early, but there are no set times on when stores open or close.  Most of the time you just have to be in the right place at the right time.  Except for the fruit market.  You have to go early for the best coconuts.

Here's a Famous shoe store that was open for business.  The sandals were very colorful and I snagged myself a pair even though they were very uncomfortable.

Our tourist van was taking us to another fort/palace combo.  This palace was a big one and up on a hill.  The fort was even higher up and had the world's largest cannon (that had never been fired).  We didn't get to see it though.

We did get to see a baby elephant on the side of the road just waiting for tourists to take pictures.

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And this snake charming guy.  It was ok, but he did play a pretty mean snake recorder.

Aunt Becky was saying yes to everything at this point on the trip so she sat down and helped to charm the snake.  She was too busy laughing to make any music.  Christina, on the other hand, was probably first chair in recorder in the third grade because she rocked it!

Then I was distracted by this camel.

When I turned around, Aunt Becky had a snake on her neck!  And she kissed it.  Aunt Becky was really cutting loose.

We finally made it to the tourist herding area which was also the Elephant herding area.  We were all set to ride an elephant up to the fort.  Fun for all, but maybe not the elephant.

These guys were really thinking ahead and built a boarding platform to get on the elephant.

Dan and Kingkini getting left in the dust.  The elephant that Aunt Becky and I were on was a speed demon.  I'm pretty sure we didn't get our full money's worth because it went too fast.

Aunt Mary and Christina were just ahead of us in the traffic jam of elephants.

When we reached the top to the palace, we started to have a look around.  I spotted this monkey chewing on some flowers.  Then, it jumped up and took off running.  It ended up whizzing right past Aunt Mary's head.  She jumped about 10 feet in the air.  It was pretty funny.

Like I said, the Indians were cold.  Even our Indian.  I want to give her the benefit of the doubt and say that she was keeping the sun off of her, but she did carry around a fleece jacket the entire trip.