The lineage review...

Some of you are skeptical of my royal lineage...I've done my best to show my credentials, but you persist in questioning.  When we started this trip to India, I showed you pictures of myself and my relatives, just to prove I had Indian roots, and that you could trust what I say in the blog regarding all things Indian.  Being in Jaipur, I decided to drop by the old family house to show Cassandra around.  It was thunder and lightning out...pouring rain, but that didn't dampen our spirits!  It's a modest little place by TLD standards...

It has some electrical issues (which I will address later in the blog), but all in all, a cozy little place.  This is the gardeners cottage...

Times have changed sadly, it's now a 7/11...but the mango Slurpee's are really good!  They even have valet parking!

This I can't figure out...they had the canon pointed directly at the drive thru at the 7/11...I guess to scare off the drive-by gang violence...

Anyway, some of the doors to the palace are still adorned the was my relatives like them...and I just want to point out that that shit ain't wallpaper, I painted it by hand...well, some of it.

I'll have you know that I MADE that door myself...out of 1 piece of solid brass...and carved just the way I did those caves back in that place where the caves are...

Right in the entry way of the palace were painting of two of my great uncles.  This is Great, great Uncle Maharajah Mergatroid DeRanger Singh XII...he was a bit of a cross dresser...

...and Great, great, great Uncle Maharaja Daryl "Binky" DeRanger Singh LCXII...

Binky was a pool hustler in Albuquerque for a couple years before returning to India...the Paul Newman character in The Hustler is based on Binky...ya didn't know THAT, didya?  Anyway, we keep a cousin on staff here now...Raja "Fat Bastard" Bernard Singh II...he's the character the banjo player in Deliverance is based on...

And as we strolled away from memory lane, I got a picture of this guy, just so you wouldn't think I'd dropped the ball.

Oh crap, I almost forgot to explain the electrical problems!  As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words...here are the electricians...my buddy Perry is the third one on the left!