Fit Test and Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Step one of P90X - Take the Fit Test to determine if you're in shape enough to get in shape with this program. Max and I took it on Wednesday and it didn't give us a heart attack so I guess we passed! We're certainly not rock stars though, holding the wall squat for 1 min and 12 sec has given me a perpetual cramp in my calf muscle that has made me walk like an 80-year old for the last few days but overall it hasn't been bad. I'm excited to see how the actual workouts kick our butt when we start on Monday.

Right now we're watching The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel - possibly one of my favorite movies. Jaipur was my favorite city in India and it makes me so happy to see all the parts of the city that I recognize. Jaipur is a desert city so it's certainly hot but not unbearable and the nights are very clear and cool. It is an old but beautiful city and I felt very comfortable there. It was the city where the female security guards at the airport took us laughing into the bathroom upon our arrival and redid our pathetic attempts at tying our saris, demonstrating the proper way to do it in Hindi of course. It's the place where wild monkeys stole my shoes on a hike to the Sun Temple and where I came to love the sensory overload of India. It's also the place where I saw the very Indian approach to a ferris wheel in this video I attached.  Enjoy. :)