Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Now in Hyderbad




Not really much to report today since most of our day was in travel.  We spent som time in Rajamundry checking on the work of M. William Carey for the St. Louis church. I will report to them what I have found when I get home.  We were an hour and a half late getting out of Rajamundry because of the arrival of some "Big wig" politician.  The last 4 Km to the airport were a night mare. There was easily 100,000 people around and on airport grounds to greet him and you can guess what that does to a one lane entry road.  It was crazy! Ricky and a policeman had to help us fight through a dense crowd with all our luggage to get to the terminal.  They had armed police at the locked door and these nuts tried to force their way in while they let us in.  I was ridiculous! People jumped over the airport fences and ran out on the taxi way and runway to "chase" that plane in.  As tight as security is right now it's a wonder those police fella's with automatic weapons did not shoot them. We thought about it later---- if they had they would have probably had a riot with no telling what results.  I can't even describe it.  I told Elaine I can now understand when you read about people being trampled to death at European soccer matches.  This crowd was so dense, if anything had "touched them off" surely some would have been hurt!  Anyway, I thought I would just post some scenery for today.