Catching a ricksaw through Delhi

Babu got his leg!

Windswept in the jeep-Corbett National park

My safari buddy

How the kiddies get to school......A locked cage rickshaw. Brilliant idea

Elephant ride looking for tigers......

I liked this one.

Some alligators looking for lunch

Trying to sleep on the train....fun experience but definatly no sleep!




Its gotten busy again which is cool.....We had 2 days off for our 3 year wedding anniversary to catch the overnight train up to Corbett National park-about a 7 hour train ride away. Its known for its tigers, wild life and elephant rides. The train trip was an experience! You get woken up every half an hour with guys yelling "CHAI CHAI CHAI" , seeing if any ones up for a cuppa Indian tea. We got a 2 day tour with a guy in his jeep through the national park spotting loads of animals like owls, otters, crocodiles and alligators, dear, wild boar and loads of monkeys. Also loads of rare but boring birds.

We stayed the night in the reserve and went on a cool elephant safari at 7 am for a few hours through the long grass trying to find us a tiger. Didn't get to see one which was a bummer but still such a nice few nights away.

The public buses here are so funny. They cant believe it when you get on as no white people ride the buses here, and they arn't too used to seeing white people up north Delhi where we live. All the Indians within sight turn around in their seats to get comfortable enough to stare at you the WHOLE hour home. Makes things slightly awkward! Haha.

Babu Sadar - the pickpocket guy we picked up at the start of this blog (fell on train tracks and munched his foot trying to escape after stealing purses on train) has got his new prosthetic leg! Hes so happy and its hard to take it back off him as he wants to practice all the time. He says hes really keen to get back to his wife and 7 year old boy he left in Calcutta so we will buy him a train ticket home. So so hoping he doesn't sell this to go back to Yamuna Bazaar for drugs like so many patients do. Man its frustrating! You wan the best for these patients yet ultimately they have to make their own life choices.

We had a bit of a scare the other day when a lil 4 year old boy here I love called Arun (hes in a few pics-one on Jake's shoulders earlier in blogs) had a epileptic seizure and was found outside the kids house face down in a rotten sewage puddle. He was grabbed out while Jake and our friend Ruth tryed to sweep out his mouth and see if he was breathing. He was unconscious but still breathing ok. He came around but was really drowsy as they are post seizure.

I picked him up and drove him into the local doctor who checked his lungs and made sure he was OK which he was thanks goodness.

Its so hard as I definatly love this lil boy and feel I am getting attatched yet find it hard not to as he is just crying out for love and attention which his parents do not give him. You want to give them so much love yet know it will be hard when we have to leave in 6 weeks-both for us and the patients also.

Some good news is the guy Jake picked up from outside the hospital with all his foot bones sticking out and maggots falling everywhere has had his patial foot ampuation and its looking good. I was dreading taking the dressing down but its looking healthy so we can get a skin graft to cover it then send him home. He definatly abit crazy but harmless.

So many funny characters here which makes this place hilerious, never a dull moment!