Evan: On Tuesday we went to the Red Fort. It’s a fort that the emperor built a long time ago. A army soldier with a big machine gun came up to me and pinched my cheeks. Because in India they have black hair and no rosy cheeks. About 40 people a day come up to me to pinch my cheeks and they ask my name and how old I am instead of asking Mom and Dad.
Andrew: Tuesday we went to the Red Fort. The Red Fort was built by the same Mugal emperor that built the Taj Mahal. (He had some pretty good architects!) The architecture was absolutely amazing. They had a huge throne stand, but the throne isn’t there, since in 1739 Iran stole the famous peacock throne and still hasn’t given it back. We went to the National Museum. They had awesome collections of coins and weapons. They also had awesome statues and pretty cool paintings. They had an amazing life-size sculpture of an Indian war elephant with tons of armor on it, and a lot of the armor was studded with gold. in the coin room, there were huge coins and small coins, all different sizes from many different periods of times, from now back to the very beginning of civilization in India, like at the Indus valley.
There are some very nice kids in bad situations. There’s this one kid that was so nice next to the Red Fort, selling postcards. My mom didn’t buy anything from him, but I thought he might be able to sell a refrigerator to an Eskimo. He didn’t go to school because he didn’t have enough money, but he had great English.
The bicycle rickshaws are absolutely amazing. They carry a couple people or huge amounts of cargo. There was this one huge amount of cargo on a bicycle rickshaw, tied with string, and a guy was hanging on the back hanging on to the string. It was so funny.
A lot of the people in India have fancier cell phones than my mom and dad. Everybody asks my brother’s name and thinks he is so cute. Around the hotel, I’m known as Evan’s brother. (No fair!) Sometimes big huge tough guards with machine guns come up and pinch Evan’s cheeks and shake our hands. It’s sorta funny.
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