Hey friends. Quick update: we are officially finished with classes, everything has been turned in, and we are now doing our independent research projects. Just in case you were wondering.

So we went on a pretty ridiculous adventure for our Spring Break a few weeks back. To be honest, we did more than I can possibly recount for you. In subsequent posts I hope to lay things out in more detail. But we did take lots of photos, and some of them are a little goofy, so I hope to be able to share those with you, give some brief descriptions, and give you a teaser of how things basically went. A more serious description of the trip will follow. But first, here's a map of our trip. Be impressed: http://goo.gl/maps/9pCFa

Without any further rambling, here we go!

So for reasons unknown to everyone including me, I decided early on that this trip required consistent blurry selfies to document our feelings as we went on our adventure. This is the first said selfie, taken after we took our first overnight bus trip from Mcleod to Delhi, which I think was just under a 12 hour adventure. We're waiting in the train station for our train to Agra.

We visited a place in Agra called the Baby Taj because it was constructed in the same style but it's a lot smaller. This is me trying to be artsy with my camera, and there's really nothing else I have to say about that.

We only had a few hours in Agra, and we failed to realize that because we were there on a Friday the Taj Mahal would be closed to non-Muslims for prayer. So the best we could do was to take a look at it from afar, which was still impressive. Agra itself isn't really that exciting, so we were mostly excited to check this particular tourist trap off of our list.

The selfies continue. This was our first night in Jaipur, with a pretty standard bed setup at a place called Zostel. You can see from the haphazardly thrown possessions and the insanity in my eyes that this was sort of a long travel day and we were pretty wiped out by the end of it.

So in order to help ourselves recover, we decided to hang around and make breakfast, knowing that this might be our only chance to have access to a kitchen. Elizabeth had a pretty late night, so this is Becky and I being happy about our breakfast success...

...and this is the food that we made.

And this is the art that was decorating the walls of the place. Our trip was primarily a Rajasthan adventure, though we certainly travelled through some other areas. 

Our adventure was filled with rickshaws, buses, and trains. Especially trains. This is us eating ice cream as a reward for just barely making it to the train station and onto the train in time, and we are gross and hot because that was the nature of this trip, and it was absolutely outstanding. Feast your eyes:

Night time taxi blurry photo shoot. I don't actually remember where we were for this part, maybe Pushkar?

By the time we had arrived in Pushkar we had been toting around and also accumulated a ridiculous quantity of snacks, so we decided to feast upon the food that we had been carrying and we actually succeeded in making something like a meal out of protein bars, digestive crackers, cookies, fruit, gatorade, beer, and who knows what else. Dinner of champions right here.

And finally, here is us eating some mangos on the floor of our hotel in Jodhpur, which ended up being one of our favorite places that we stayed. Also these were some tasty mangos, made all the tastier by cutting them open with a pocket knife and dribbling juices all over the floor.

So this has been a teaser for what is to come regarding our Spring break adventures. I will try to come up with a better description and more complete story later. For now, I've got to go do some research!