Never A Dull Moment

We had an interesting weekend...a few highlights...

We found out on Friday that our van (the one with racing stripes) that was supposed to arrive on Saturday from Delhi (a 10 day trip) was infact not arriving on Saturday and had not even been manufactured at the factory yet! The manager called to tell us the bad news saying we had another form to fill out (b/c we are foreigners) although they had called us 10 days ago to tell us it had been shipped:D This is the way things run in India. So we are still rickshawing around town and now on the lookout again for another car.

Saturday I spoke with a doctor about a diaper rash Kai has had for 2 weeks. She told me about a clinic that could see him at 6:30 pm. (Doctors here work late hours!) She told me what landmark it was near. In Bangalore there are no street signs and no address numbers on buildings so it can be very vague and abstract when trying to find a location. On the way to the appointment we picked Brian up outside his office. The rickshaw driver drove us around for an hour. Finally we had him to just drop us off. We walked around for awhile looking for it and I prayed for the Lord to help us find this place before the doctor left. We were about to give up when this nice family stopped to see if we needed help. We told them the name of the clinic and they said they were personal friends of the doctors and would take us there! It ended up being right next to Brian's work:), exactly where we picked him up--so we had made a big circle:) We were able to see the doctor at 8:00 pm. Guess how much it cost to see the doctor? 150 rupees which equals $3.75!!!! Doctor's are not wealthy here obviously. The prescription he gave us cost $2.70! Wow!! Although it was the most unclean medical facility i've ever been too it was well worth the $3.75 and Kai just stayed on my lap the whole time when seeing the doctor.

After church on Sunday we decided to go to Commercial Street, a huge shopping area (like a Chinatown), to look for a rug for Kai to be able to roll around on.(All homes have hard flooring here b/c of the dust) On the way, in the rickshaw, Kai had a blowout bowel movement! It was everywhere. So here we are, Kai in my lap, yellow poop all over him and ofcourse I only have 3 wipes to work with:) Thankfully I had a change of clothes! I bathed him with the 3 wipes while the people in the car next to us just stared and laughed:) We had to throw away his clothes along with the diaper b/c they were saturated. Thank goodness for diaper bags! btw--we found a cheap rug and Kai had a blast rolling around on it.

Traffic on the way to Commercial Street

Commercial Street