We had a strange thing happen. When we were at the QuTab Minar, we met a girl from Afghanistan and her ailing mother. They had come to India for medical treatment for the mother and had been living here by themselves for several months. She spoke good English and she was deciphering some of the words carved in stone on the Minar for us. We told her to look us up and that we would love to have her over to our home for dinner and friendship. She said she would. About a week later we were at the Lodhi Gardens. We had just walked through the entrance and were reading the Bird Sign when who should we meet but our Afghany friends again. I said, "I think God wants us to be friends. Why else would we meet in another place so far away from the other and in this huge city of millions?" Just then as we were visiting with that girl and her mother, the girls from the apartment upstairs from us came up and started talking with us. We couldn't believe we knew so many people at Lodhi gardens. We met up with Dr. Rahan Chowdry (daughter to Mrs. Chowdry, owner of the Polytechnic where I teach music) at the gardens a little later on and the girls from upstairs knew her also. The younger girl had gone to school at the poly technic. You would think that in a city this size, you would never meet up with the same person twice.
We had a branch activity that I invited our upstairs neighbors to and Denu, the older sister, asked me if there would be any dignitaries there. She knows Dr. Chowdry is wealthy and an important person and she has seen the Mission President come to our house so she thinks we have connections I guess. It's been interesting how observant our little neighbors are.
The Lodhi Gardens are a favorite place for people to go for walking exercise and there were also quite a few romancing couples. The gardens are very old , designed by the English, they are the landscaping for at least ten ancient Muslim Tombs. You think you've seen it all and then there appears another structure. The fountain was also very beautiful. Many birds, flowers, palm trees and ancient structures, made this a most delightful outing. I really didn't think that I would be seeing this sort of thing right in the heart of the city.