"A B C Game of India in Uttar Pradesh" (Things experienced so far in the northernmost state):
A - "apata" (the shawl/robe we have to wear upon entering hindu temples)
B- Brush teeth with kool-aid (because that's what we put in our only drinkable water)
Bats hanging above us in the Fatephur Sikri Mosque

C- 8/19 car ride into the bowels of india
Camels everwhere

D- Department of Technology; free interenet; no electricity!

E - Emitting sweat from our pours on a 110 degree night in a one-room Goverdhan Hotel with no power.

F- Frickin "touts" never take no for an answer (ask you 200 times do you want to buy something)

G Good, gracious, generous driver Mudhal, then second driver Sharma (who took us home to have tea and served us black forest cake last night)

Hi (if you're ) Happy and you know it, scream out loud (when the Indian traffic gets TOO, too crazy!)

I- Independent travelers

J- joy

K - King Fischer Beer
Krishna's birthday (and birth place Brij Darshan)

L - Liscense to Kill (what an Indian driver's license is)

M- Mosques in Mathura

N- Next trip to India
Non (the staple bread served with every meal)

O- over hill, over dale, we have hit the dusty trail

P-Paneer butter Masala (our favorite Indian dish)

Q- Quatabl Minar

R-Rikshaw
Relatively bug-free

S- Shiva

T- Two hundred rupees for ride from airport to Hyatt
Three hundred fifty wives of king Akbar

U. Ubiquous poverty

V. for "We"

W. White marble temples everywhere, including the Taj Mahal

X-X-ray machine we get searched with upon entering any 4-star hotel

Y- yellow saris, yelping dogs

Z- zoning out after three showers in sweltering heat within 9 hour period...