Coordinating Our Travel Schedules

In our preparations for our trip to India, we've learned that another Chicago couple will be in the neighborhood at the same time: Barack and Michelle Obama. We should have coordinated our schedules better, because I think they are in Mumbai while we are riding elephants in Jaipur. (Really! So exciting!) When they may be in Delhi, we are touring temples in Jodhpur.

Our friend, and soon to-be-travel companion, Tushar was talking to his mother in Mumbai about our visit and she confidently said, "I think they will meet Obama in India." Tushar tried to explain that this is unlikely, but his mother was insistent, "They're creative. They'll figure it out."

I love the faith that mothers, even ones who aren't your own, can have in you.

And all I can think about is how I don't want to end up like a Real Housewife of D.C. crashing the party... ironically that was a State Dinner for the PM of India!