It's Official - We're Moving

James talked to his CEO yesterday who assured us that Deloitte would help us with our housing differential when we move - so if anyone want's to rent our 4 bedroom house w/pool let us know. Also up for grabs - 1999 Cadillac DeVille d'Elegance for $8300.00.

If you're really nice, you'll watch our two dogs for the time we're there, but I'm pretty sure there won't be any takers :)

So...James will be outtie around February 8th, right around when my parents leave Boca and thus begins my nervous breakdown. The kids and I will move when Ciaran finishes school at the end of May/early June. Just in time for my Asia trip (which reminds me to change my flights) with Elaine.

FW: Heather's wheels in India.

 

 

From: Jurgensen, Jill
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 3:21 PM
To: Welch, Heather; Sulzycki, John; Brehm, Randy
Subject: Heather's wheels in India.

 

 

NEW DELHI - For millions of people in the developing world, Tata Motor’s new $2,500 four-door subcompact — the world’s cheapest car — may yield a transportation revolution with as great an impact as Henry Ford’s Model T, which rolled off an assembly line one century ago.

 

The potential impact of Tata’s Nano has given environmentalists nightmares, with visions of the tiny cars clogging India’s already-choked roads and collectively spewing millions of tons of carbon dioxide into the air.

Can you fit two kids plus car seats, two dogs and a couple of cats in this car too???

Look/See Trip: December 16-21, 2007

View from the hotel.

James sporting his nifty Deloitte "visitor" badge.

Two of the four buildings on Deloitte's compound.

While we left on the 16th, we didn't arrive until the 18th, but thank god for Business Class! I could not have made it without the almost horizontal sleeping chairs/beds and hot towelettes. Totally worth the $$ (that we didn't have to pay). ha.



Bleary-eyed we found our suitcase minus the luggage strap but the Maker's Mark we had packed for an expat was still in the suitcase so really that's all that mattered. Anyways, our hotel was lovely, the people were lovely, we spent two days with a relocation expert and visited the International School of Hyderabad where the kids will go, the Children's Hospital (will pay for the deluxe private rooms), the local vet and Q-Mart which is awesome - you can get anything from Old El Paso to Kraft Mac n Cheese (the blue American box, not the red British version), Pyrex, Barbies you name it. So my fears of losing all my fat are now unfounded because I can eat something (in case you didn't know that I loathe Indian food, though I did try some and it wasn't all that bad, my stomach thought differently), so I'll lose some weight if I join the expat gym. I will be going vegetarian though - I made the mistake of ordering a hamburger at the Marriott thinking maybe they'd import ground beef (i.e. cow) from somewhere, but alas I'm not sure what it was and after one bite I sent it away to be replaced by a vegetable panini.



Anyway, I digress even further. The climate was dry (note to self: bring good moisturizer and Saline spray) and reminded me of Arizona. We'll hopefully find a house to rent (done with apartments) and work out all the other logistics. So for now here's some snaps, actually the only photos we took, there wasn't much to see really.



Stay tuned on what happens next. We should know more this week (Jan 8 onwards).