Yum-Yum

It's Lynn here tonight. This will be short since it's after midnight. I love thinking about what we got to eat and drink today. For breakfast Susan and I had delicious ripe papaya cut up with fresh lime and salt on it. It was beautiful to look at and lusicous to eat. We left for a very long day of shopping going to lots of different markets buying lots of things with great color today - must have been the orange papaya! Some great summer cloth napkins and then lots of incredible, each one different light wool hand-embroidered stoles to have fun with this winter. Ugh - winter.

We were really tired this afternoon and didn't want to stop for lunch, so we went to our favorite coffee shop. It's a chain here and it has interesting flavor combos in frozen coffee for just over a dollar! My favorite is called "cold sparkle" and it has slight coconut flavoring. It is really hard not to suck it down in two minutes flat! Yum again. On the way there we had quite an adventure as we had to hunt through blocks and blocks of shops that go around for miles in a circle in the center of Delhi. A really obvious scam artist (loads of them in central Delhi) came alongside us and started asking us where we wanted to go. They try to get tourists to sign up for fake tours. They act like they're your friend and just chat away. Susan noticed that he seemed to have a friend behind us so we watched our backpacks closely. He kept on and on until we went into the coffee shop and then a friend of his came in and sat next to us. We moved and two more of them came upstairs and sat beside us. Always talking about tours, etc. and trying to make friends. We got really sick of all of that and decided to pay our bill and make a run for it across the very busy street to catch a rickshaw over there. Thanks to God we left them in the dust. They probably didn't mean any physical harm, but financial harm was surely in their minds! Anyway, we are always thankful for God's protection whether we know about it or not.

OK. I said this would be short. But I have to mention dinner. We met a friend of mine who lives in Delhi and ate at a veg restaurant. Not like what we might think of as veg at home. We had a wonderful rich spinach dish with slightly hot spices cooked for a real long time - like in the south. No vitamins for us tonight. Then we had chick peas in a spicy tomato sauce. And one last dish to share was potato chunks in a spicy, tomato, yogurty sauce. All with this great flatbread to mop up the sauces. My mouth would be watering again if my stomach wasn't still so stuffed.

Great day! Thank you, Lord.