Pictures

Moonrise from the roof

Picture taken while waiting to find a rickshaw. Chennai.

Sai Baba, painted really big on the side of a building. Also note that the "STD" in the lower right does not stand for the same thing that it does in the United States. It stands for State Trunk Dialing and is a phone system in India.

Reabekha, Alice Marie, and some of her family in front of their house. Alice Marie is a neighbor of Reabekha's and used to sew. She dropped out of school when she was 12 to help support her family and is now looking to make her life better.

Looking for sewing machines. Reabekha chose this one with the help of John (her brother-in-law that is a tailor) and Suresh (a sewing machine mechanic). It just so happened that the machine shop was next to the fabric district, so we cruised over there after to check out prices on materials.

Nickesh and I grabbed lunch at a local hotel restaurant that had air conditioning. I can't tell you how good it felt to relax in AC for an hour.

Cool building in Chennai, just outside of the sewing machine shop. We were struggling to get a rickshaw, so I took a handful of pictures here.

The salesman at one of the fabric shops. I have no idea why he had that mask thing on his head. All the other salespeople were dressed normally.

Looking for fabrics. Came across this for a chudidar and used most of the people that were helping us to show it off.

So the salesman is modeling a ladies scarf thing that came with the fabric shown in the previous picture. He just put it on to show me what it was used for. Between that and the mask, I nearly cried from laughing so hard.

I couldn't help it. I asked him to put on the mask for this last picture. The fabric is a cotton/poly mix. Pretty soft. Looks good on him, but hey, with that mask he can rock anything.



My long-time friend Raja. He just got an LDS mission call to serve in Utah.

I love sunrises from the plane. This one is somewhere between Atlanta and Mumbai.