The Palmers Take India

Jack and Karol Palmer safely arrived in India in the middle of Wednesday night. Unfortunately, a bag was lost on the flight, so we are still waiting to hear from Continental Airlines. (There is a certain desperation to the search, since the missing luggage contains the peanut butter and toilet paper they brought us.)

Otherwise, they are happy if not overwhelmed. They spent much of Wednesday recovering from the 30-hour journey. Jenna and I arrived Thursday afternoon to an emotional reunion in Kochi. The four of us walked around the historic Fort Cochin area and ate dinner at a place called The Courtyard, a restaurant Jenna and I had sampled on our previous trip to Kochi.

Just as we were when we first arrived, my parents are a bit dazed and overwhelmed, none of us still really believing that we are together again (and on the other side of the world to boot).

We have made plans to visit a famous waterfall in Kerala (the "Niagara of India") and also stop by an elephant training ground. Unfortunately, I forgot the adapter cord that allows me to download pictures onto Jenna's laptop, so no pictures of my parents' visit can be posted until after our return to Tirur. But we will give daily updates of my parents' progress in India.