After the eight-and-a-half hour trip from Anandpur Sahib to Delhi, stopping along the way for snacks and lunch, we arrived at our hotel - the Royal Plaza on Ashoka Road, and checked into our rooms, with enough time to shower and change our clothes, and meet again in the lobby, to be driven to the India Heritage Center for a dinner meeting with the Rotary Club of Delhi-Megapolis.
It was a Farewell Dinner because about eight of our team was departing that night to return home to Nevada, California and Arizona. At dinner, each one of the team had an opportunity to share their experiences and the highlights of the trip with the club members, their spouses and a few guests. It was wonderful to hear these special and poignant moments, some of which we had not witnessed and we were grateful for this opportunity. Even Vikram and Sumothy Lodhi, the owners of the resort where we stayed while in Anandpur Sahib, rose to tell the local ROTARIANS how they were so pleased to meet all of us and to have been able to get to know us and to actually participate in the dam builds.
We also enjoyed the tradition of swapping club banners and then adjourned to share fellowship and dinner. While I was speaking with Sumothy, some how one of us mentioned the names of Yogesh and Deepak Sikand, and I indicated they had been my hosts back in 2003 and Sumothy said that Yogesh and Deepak were the only ROTARIANS she knew!!! What a small world!
It was a Farewell Dinner because about eight of our team was departing that night to return home to Nevada, California and Arizona. At dinner, each one of the team had an opportunity to share their experiences and the highlights of the trip with the club members, their spouses and a few guests. It was wonderful to hear these special and poignant moments, some of which we had not witnessed and we were grateful for this opportunity. Even Vikram and Sumothy Lodhi, the owners of the resort where we stayed while in Anandpur Sahib, rose to tell the local ROTARIANS how they were so pleased to meet all of us and to have been able to get to know us and to actually participate in the dam builds.
We also enjoyed the tradition of swapping club banners and then adjourned to share fellowship and dinner. While I was speaking with Sumothy, some how one of us mentioned the names of Yogesh and Deepak Sikand, and I indicated they had been my hosts back in 2003 and Sumothy said that Yogesh and Deepak were the only ROTARIANS she knew!!! What a small world!
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