Lowlights from my 25 hour journey (door-to-door) back to the Motherland.

Although this is a list of lowlights, most of these were quickly forgotten as I was greeted at the airport by my cousin, Vikram, with diet coke, Indian chocolate cookies and sweet paan (God, how I have missed that). Best.Welcome.Ever.

Anyway, onto the list...

5. My $15 missing TSA-approved lock. When getting my baggage at the Delhi airport, I noticed one of my suitcases arrived without the special fancy lock I had put on it. It was $15! Looking back, it was probably not worth using on my luggage filled with taco seasoning packets, crunchy PB and hundreds of Indian bangles. Bad decision-making on my part.

4. Kambakkht Ishq. Worst.Indian.Movie.Ever. Okay, maybe not ever, but really bad. I blame KLM for lack of movie choices in their menu...at this point I had already seen The Hangover and couldn't fall asleep thinking of the 80 Grand they had won gambling (see #1) so I thought I'd watch an Indo movie to get me back in the "Moving to India" mood. Bad decision-making on my part.

3. Quiche for snack time. Okay, to be fair, the quiche was delicious, but my lactaid pills were all the way in my bag, under the seat and too far to reach. Bad decision-making on my part.

2. The really really big guy sitting next to me on flight #1. I must say, he was a very kind man and super talkative and yeahhh. But he also hogged the middle arm rest and at least 2 cubic feet of my "air" space. I didn't speak up because I didn't know what to say! Bad decision-making on my part.

1. The casino in the Amsterdam airport. I had been wanting to go gambling ever since my family went to Detroit two weeks back while I was stuck home with my 19 year old cousin and um, the 24-hour flu...but well, just never got around to it. So, naturally when I saw the casino at 7:45 am at the Amsterdam airport, my instinct was to run in, convert my dollars to euros and then 25 minutes later proceed to curse the exchange rate and the lack of free drinks at the Roulette table. My execution was poor, I wasn't playing big to win big, but what can you expect with a 5 euro minimum bet! Bad decision-making on my part.

Let's hope all this bad-decision making was a result of Friday the 13th and nothing else. Afterall, I just packed up my life in the US and moved to India (for the second time).

Any job leads and/or cute, single Indo man biodatas greatly appreciated.