Delhi To Florida

Today was the first day of our (My Mom, Dad, Brother and Me) 3 week long trip to the US. 


And like all other trips of ours, this trip too gave us a happening start. 


Firstly, when we were leaving for the airport in New Delhi, our car's tire got punctured. Well anyhow, that was fixed in about half an hour. We reached the airport around 12. That gave us plenty of time to catch our flight at 2:30.

My brother fools around at the Delhi airport

Not that it left at 2:30! It was late. The airport guys decided that they wanted to be nice and send the families with small kids first. And when we finally got a chance to go in, some really obstinate woman decided that she wanted to take 2 seats instead of 1. So the air hostesses ended up fighting with that woman in order to get a seat for the passenger who was seat less! Well I didnt really mind that too much. It was sort of entertaining. 
We got a little preview (and a pretty scary one) of the roller coasters we hope to find in Orlando during our flight, when the storms and turbulances that we found on our way made our plane shake crazily!


One thing I noticed was that in each of these instances, all the Indians got really restless and impatient. All the foreigners on the other hand remained oblivious to what was happening! 
I noticed this even at Frankfurt airport. Everyone stood so patiently in the long queues. 


Frankfurt airport was quite interesting. We had to spend 7 hours there since we had a connecting flight to Orlando. 

Dad and I playing with Bucky Balls

My brother tries to copy one of the signs he noticed at the airport

McDonalds-Anywhere, Everywhere

My favourite part-Pink Telephone Booth!

Well we reached the Orlando airport, and subsequently our hotel without any more drama! The weather is great here! It's been raining since we got here and for people like us, who come from a temperature of 40 degrees celsius, it's quite a relief. 
Our suite here is incredible. Its huge-big enough for 8 people. 

Loving the space!

Today the 4 of us get to use all the extra space! Tomorrow Dad's friend and his family will came stay with us for one night. They live here in Orlando and are going to spend the weekend with us. We're going to Sea World tomorrow! 


Can't wait!

One Red Paperclip

Kyle, Macdonald,  a Canadian, is a blogger who bartered his way from a single red paperclip to a house in a series of online trades over the course of a year. 


Amazing? Isn't it? Thats like exchanging homework for a home theater!

MacDonald made his first trade, a red paper clip for a fish-shaped pen, on July 14, 2005. He reached his goal of trading up to a house with the fourteenth transaction, trading a movie role for a house. This is the list of all transactions MacDonald made:

• On July 14, 2005, he went to Vancouver and traded the paperclip for a fish-shaped pen.
• He then traded the pen the same day for a hand-sculpted doorknob from Seattle, Washington, which he nicknamed "Knob-T".
• On July 25, 2005, he traveled to Amherst, Massachusetts, with a friend to trade the Knob-T for a Coleman camp stove (with fuel).
• On September 24, 2005, he went to San Clemente, California, and traded the camp stove for a Honda generator.
• On November 16, 2005, he made a second (and successful) attempt (after having the generator confiscated by the New York City Fire Department) in Maspeth, Queens, to trade the generator for an "instant party": an empty keg, an IOU for filling the keg with the beer of the holder's choice, and a neon Budweiser sign.
  
  

  

  Kyle MacDonald's house
• On December 8, 2005, he traded the "instant party" to Quebec comedian and radio personality Michel Barrette for a Ski-doo snowmobile.
• Within a week of that, he traded the snowmobile for a two-person trip to Yahk, British Columbia, in February 2006.
• On or about January 7, 2006, the second person on the trip to Yahk traded Kyle a cube van for the privilege.
• On or about February 22, 2006, he traded the cube van for a recording contract with Metal Works in Toronto.
• On or about April 11, 2006, he traded the recording contract to Jody Gnant for a year's rent inPhoenix, Arizona.
• On or about April 26, 2006, he traded the one year's rent in Phoenix, Arizona, for one afternoon with Alice Cooper.
• On or about May 26, 2006, he traded the one afternoon with Alice Cooper for a KISS motorized snow globe.
• On or about June 2, 2006, he traded the KISS motorized snow globe to Corbin Bernsen for a role in the film Donna on Demand.
• On or about July 5, 2006, he traded the movie role for a two-story farmhouse in Kipling, Saskatchewan.

And to think it all started from a simple paper clip! 

Source:Wikipedia