On a warm beautiful Saturday I took the kids to Bond Park for Kite Festival. After numerous unsuccessful trials of flying the kits the frustrations rose up and we headed to the lake to cool our tempers down. Turned out it was a great idea. Feeding the ducks and playing at the beach with pebbles, drawing nonsense stuff in the wet sand mud was excellent therapy while soaking up the sun. Afterwards kids enjoyed hanging from monkey -bars, singing made-up songs. We hadn't packed a change but cleaned up pretty well and enough to stop at Goodberry's for ice-cream before returning home. Welcome spring !
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Friday, March 1, 2013
Trip to India - Nov 2012 to Feb 2013
This November all of us visited India and returned to USA in February. A dream like trip with lots of quality time with family and precious meeting with two of my dearest friends Gauri and Yajshri. Met them after a dozen years. So much has happened since then - husbands, kids, homes, careers and yet felt like we were just our old selves - thank goodness for that feeling with some friends !
Baba (my grandfather) is 94 years now. I am so proud of my Dad for taking such good care of him. He himself will turn 71 this May.
Celebrated lots of birthdays - Anurag's , Dad's and Avi's. Anurag enjoyed a surprise gathering and delicious cake by my Brother and Bhabhi ( the real surprise was a firecracker like sound along with flowing shiny confetti on him while he was cutting cake :)) . Dad treated us all with a party on his birthday and surprise of surprises , my Uncle from Sydney joined in the celebration after braving a traffic jam on Mumbai-Pune highway. Even though he was on a business trip, he traveled all that much just to spend few hours with the family. Avi turned 8 on January 1st and had a grand party with the family in Hotel Greenpark Pune with angry birds cake from Four Season's bakery shop (it was the yummiest 2 tier cake ever with white cake on bottom and chocolate cake on top) and a four course dinner. Kids blew bubbles, jumped on trampoline and played on rides. Everyone was required to dress for a wedding so the children looked like princes, ladies like queens and men like kings. It was quite a birthday party Avi had.
We met the youngest member of our family, my nephew Shaurya who is the most beautiful toddler in the universe. Sharp as a knife and cute as a teddy. God bless him !
Avi and Neev got pampered by everyone and Neev has declared my brother-in-law as Ashwin -the Fufaji :) Neev had developed quite a fondness for Fufaji's head and had become his official 'champi wala ' :)
Thanks to our sisters and brothers, we got treated to a lot of great dining experiences and movies (The Hobbit, Dabang 2 , Matru ki Bijali ka Mandola). It sure was a lot of fun !
On the way to Badaun we stopped at Agra and showed the children Taj Mahal, Khwaza Saleem Chishti's Dargah and Buland Darwaza at Fatehpur Sikri. Very special experience !
It was a trip of a lifetime and it was all due to our wonderful families ! Anurag and I can not thank our stars enough for these special people in our lives.
We are back now dealing with such an extended absence from school (kinda feels like waking up after a beautiful dream). Worst comes worst the kids would have to repeat the year. Oh well !
Baba (my grandfather) is 94 years now. I am so proud of my Dad for taking such good care of him. He himself will turn 71 this May.
Celebrated lots of birthdays - Anurag's , Dad's and Avi's. Anurag enjoyed a surprise gathering and delicious cake by my Brother and Bhabhi ( the real surprise was a firecracker like sound along with flowing shiny confetti on him while he was cutting cake :)) . Dad treated us all with a party on his birthday and surprise of surprises , my Uncle from Sydney joined in the celebration after braving a traffic jam on Mumbai-Pune highway. Even though he was on a business trip, he traveled all that much just to spend few hours with the family. Avi turned 8 on January 1st and had a grand party with the family in Hotel Greenpark Pune with angry birds cake from Four Season's bakery shop (it was the yummiest 2 tier cake ever with white cake on bottom and chocolate cake on top) and a four course dinner. Kids blew bubbles, jumped on trampoline and played on rides. Everyone was required to dress for a wedding so the children looked like princes, ladies like queens and men like kings. It was quite a birthday party Avi had.
We met the youngest member of our family, my nephew Shaurya who is the most beautiful toddler in the universe. Sharp as a knife and cute as a teddy. God bless him !
Avi and Neev got pampered by everyone and Neev has declared my brother-in-law as Ashwin -the Fufaji :) Neev had developed quite a fondness for Fufaji's head and had become his official 'champi wala ' :)
Thanks to our sisters and brothers, we got treated to a lot of great dining experiences and movies (The Hobbit, Dabang 2 , Matru ki Bijali ka Mandola). It sure was a lot of fun !
On the way to Badaun we stopped at Agra and showed the children Taj Mahal, Khwaza Saleem Chishti's Dargah and Buland Darwaza at Fatehpur Sikri. Very special experience !
It was a trip of a lifetime and it was all due to our wonderful families ! Anurag and I can not thank our stars enough for these special people in our lives.
We are back now dealing with such an extended absence from school (kinda feels like waking up after a beautiful dream). Worst comes worst the kids would have to repeat the year. Oh well !
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