My dad picks me up at the Bangalore Airport		My Mom, Tia Cora, Sister Alicia & my niece with their Mehendi hands, ready for the wedding ceremony
	My parents and I in our hotel room		Site-seeing with my family in Bangalore, two days before the big wedding ceremony. About 800 people attended the ceremony.
	While site-seeing, I met some Catholic Indians.		At a temple, a Hindu priest blessed my anja chakra (3rd eye) with a cinnabar Tilaka (mark).
	Breakfast at the hotel with my family		Trying on bangles for my wedding outfit at the jewelry store
	Shopping for a slip for my wedding sari		Receiving help, putting on my sari on the morning of the wedding
	Finishing details on my wedding sari		With a statue of Ganesh, outside of the wedding hall
	The bride and groom receive a blessing outside		The wedding couple, my brother Dan and his wife Anu: as one, they are "DANU"
	The bride's mom ceremoniously applies make-up on the groom		Watching the fascinating wedding ceremony
	The bride and groom are announced as husband and wife		My dad shows off my mom's Mehendi hands
	My family and I posing with the bride and groom		Posing at the reception dinner, later that night
	The next morning, I hopped on Ravi's bike for a ride to the Carnataka Chitrakala Parishat Art College in Bangalore.		Interviewing the dean of the art school, Suresh Jayaram, who is a renown artist in India.  In the background is his assistant Anu.
	Here I am exchanging numbers with a graduate art student (MFA in painting candidate) at Carnataka Chitrakala Parishat.		Carnataka Chitrakala Parishat is Bangalore's most prestigious art school. Here is a graduate art history class I observed.
	On another day, I visited Suresh at his home studio/gallery		Here is Suresh working on one of his installation pieces
	Here is Suresh at his popular art gallery, commenting on one of his student's work.  The gallery is called 1 Shanti Road.		Here is a photo of me which Suresh took at his art studio. I'm taking notes beside one of Suresh's installation pieces.
	The night before we left, Suresh came to our hotel and bid us goodbye.  Here are my dad and Suresh.		My sister Alicia, our mom and I take one more picture together before we head back home to the States and to Spain.
	I had arrived in Bangalore a few hours after the Mehendi ceremony had finished. So I got my Mehendi done on my last day in India.  I photographed my hand while picking the henna.		After twenty-two hours in the air; by the time I got back home to Los Angeles, the henna had turned brown. The Mehendi lasted about three weeks, reminding me of beautiful Bangalore.

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