Shopping - India or the "shopping girls" have changed my habits. I love what I bought in Mangalore so much that today I decided to take a last stab at buying more Indian clothing.

I checked around the Taj Hotel in Mumbai and found a shop with stunningly beautiful clothes. It was one designer label ARDASH GILL. I looked this label up on the internet when I got back to the hotel and she is a pretty famous designer that has also sold in high end retail stores in New York and and Italy. These were really well made of high quality materials. I bought one top on sale and it was still not really that expensive about the same as a nice jacket at Chicos. It had to be let out for me and it was completed in two hours and done perfectly. So now I own a REAL designer garment not a common thing for me to have. I now wish I had bought another after reading all about this label. If Andi, Susan, Meredith and Polly had been there they would have been in Heaven.

Then we went to a local mall and I was going nuts. So many beautiful things so inexpensive I could not decide. I did not have a lot of time but ended up buying three more tops. Interesting was the fact that Ken picked out every single top I purchased today including the Adarsh Gill top. He may be in trouble I will be dragging him along with me in the future. This makes a total of SEVEN new items of clothing in this one trip. Yikes - where is Ngaire the non shopper, who is this new person!

New clothes for the Alaskan trip in May!! Cant wait to wear them most are not really "Indian" looking just great tops to wear with my black pants - with some color for a change.

We fly home tomorrow morning at 2.30 am it will be nice to get home and catch up on everything. Clay is eagerly awaiting my return I am sure.