Audrey's famous red glasses, admired by all, broke last week! We took them around to some shops, but no one was able to repair them. But don't worry, we bought a nice new pair from a local eyewear shop! So now Audrey has a new pair of bright, blue "specs" to enjoy! 
Evan had a very fun seventh birthday today! We invited our good friends from upstairs to join us. 
We had cheese pizza and chocolate cake (Evan's favorite!)
Of course Evan got a Lego kit (he still loves Legos). And Audrey even got a cute little plush puppy from her Aunt. We had a lot of fun! We wish everyone at home could have been here too! 
Today we went to the National Zoo in Delhi. We had a great time. We saw several white tigers, a jaguar, elephants, giraffes with a baby, a hippo family with a baby, and lots of monkeys. The thing about the monkeys in the zoo in India is that they are not in cages! Another thing about monkeys is that they love ice cream! There was a bunch of monkeys stealing ice cream cones at 
the zoo. One was eating 2 cones at once. The monekys were trying to steal cones from little kids. Some people were just throwing their cones at the monkeys to get them to stay away. We had some chips for a snack (instead of ice cream). We threw the empty bag in a can marked "Use Me - Dustbin." But the bag just fell through to the ground. There was no bottom to the dustbin. We are surprised everyday by things in India! 
See some of our new friends in our neighborhood.
Today we went to a very large market in New Delhi. Our new housekeeper/cook, Indomathi, said it would be a good place to go -- and she was right! There were so many things there: food, flowers, clothes, shoes, fabric, stuff for kitchens, electronics, toys, snacks, live animals (see rooster in photo), bags, drinks and naan. Naan is a type of bread in India. We saw men making it. They put a flat piece of d
ough in a very very very very hot clay oven. Then they pull it out using 2 pointy sticks. We had warm fresh naan for lunch and ate the rest at dinner. Yum!
Our driver S.K surprised us on New Year's day with a car seat full of balloons! He is a really special driver!
We are now in our apartment. We opened some of our toys today that have been packed since we left Texas. Evan played with some of his Legos and Audrey played with her Barbie dolls.
We also finished our school work assignments. Audrey had to make a chart tracking the weather in Noida. Most days it was very foggy with a high of around 2o degrees Celsius and a low of about 7 degrees Celsius. (See if you can do the conversion to Fahrenheit - ed.) Evan had to draw a picture of his best friend and write 5 sentences describing him. He also read 6 stories from the Panchatantra. (India Fables). When we finished all of our work we watched Ben 10!
