We Have Arrived

We arrived in Chennai after a long flight from Atlanta. Chennai was not our first choice when we originally made our travel plans. Those travel arrangements took us via Lufthansa from our home in Atlanta to Frankfurt, Germany and then directly to Bangalore. However, all great plans start with arriving at the airport on time! Missing an international flight connection is not the end of the world; it is just the start of journey down a bumpy, unexpected road.

When all was settled, stand-by reservations on the flight out the following day were confirmed. For Helen, that confirmation did not arrive until 4 hours before departing. The very-hard-to-come-by hotel reservations in Bangalore were re-booked, but not before discovering that our original reservations had been cancelled. In keeping with the unexpected becoming the norm, we discovered upon arrival in Chennai at 11:45 PM that our 6:20 AM flight reservations on Jet Airways from Chennai to Bangalore were...that's right...cancelled.

By 8:00am on Saturday, September 10, we checked into the Windsor Manor Hotel on 25, Golf Course Road. We slept for several hours, then were whisked off to look at service apartments. By the end of the afternoon we had been to five different locations. Our final choice, the Diamond District apartments, was determined by two factors: it is a beautiful, secure complex with all the amenities we were looking for, and it is only a ten minute walk for Jay to get to work.

Not bad for our first day in India.