Dinner with Friends

For all you guys out there no laughing.  We had just completed our first week in India and one of our colleagues Lalitha was going back home to Hyderabad. So they do what we do back home and that is celebrate success with dinner.  If you are looking at the picture above from left to right.  Vishal is a trainer, Lalitha is also a trainer, Christine from the US is a trainer, Abhishek a Team Leader and me. 

Dinner with these folks was pretty interesting.  Nitin the person you see on the left and not in the picture above is the big boss at the table.  Other than Christine and I everyone at that table reports to him.  We sat down at 7:00 to eat supper and we ordered appetizers.  We drank all kinds of stuff, non-alcoholic, from raw mango juice with cumin to yogurt drinks with papaya.  It was a very interesting culinary experience.  About 7:45 we ordered our main course.  Everything was good I will do a culinary right up a little later.  At 9:00 we sent what we had not eaten back to the kitchen to be reheated.  Yep they do that here.   Then we ate some more.  About 10:00 I could not eat another bite.  I did not do a good job of pacing at the main course.  So then we ordered desert.   Ice cream, it was also pretty good.  The flavor any guesses...rose petal.

The guy in the middle in the blue shirt is a believer, his name is Vishal.  I will be going to church with Vishal on Sunday. Talk to you soon.