So Long, Jaipur

{Leaving Home, or, Our Last Few Days in the Pink City}












It is always more difficult to Tie Up Loose Ends that one anticipates.

But somehow we managed. We moved out of our flat just as the summer cockroaches started moving in, we savored an epic, food-coma-inducing farewell dinner with our adorable Gujarati neighbors (hullo sweet curried potatoes with raisins, cashew paste and poppy seeds!) and I *finally* finished a purgatorial traditional miniature painting less than twelve hours before we boarded the bus for Delhi with all our belongings. And although there is always more to do, more to see, more to learn, we left the Pink City with nothing but wonder and graditute in our hearts.

So namashkaar, Jaipur. We learned to love you, and you loved us back in ways we never could have imagined.