Been two weeks. Don't know about the week before that but last week was me being sick again. Am totally pakaoed of this new problem since I've been back.
Anyway probably wasn't must to write about and I was exhausted from the party, blogging on my writing sites and such. God alone knows !
Saw the movies " What happens in Vegas" and " Madagascar 2 " and " Paul Blart " and " Taken ", in the past two weeks, me thinks. Now that I've got the Chronicles am feeling bad about the past few days being hazy. hehehe. Nothing new na ? To be lazy with activities you have to maintain ? :)
Well, what's new ?
Hemen had come friday night. So the days before that between falling sick cleaned up the house and re arranged things a bit, here and there. He had sent Shubham a Saki bottle last week which Shubham was really happy to get.
The 3 of us drove to James River Park yesterday. Early morning did an oil change for the car and mean while had brunch at " SilverDiner " . Reminded me of when mom, dad and karan had gone with us to the same branch of diner in Washington. Been ages since we went to a diner, and it was Really good food. Then we drove the 2 hourst to the park, reaching there by 2 only to be told that it's not safe to try canoeing by ourselves and that the river was running quite fast. First the lady at the counter tried to convince us , then we had the park ranger talking to us. We got Really scared and thought it's better to be safe and just go back. As a ditch effort, I asked him if there was a park near by whre we could go swimming and to our Immense relief he told us about the Holiday park.
We were so frustrated by this time, that anything and everything was having us laughing, for we were half assuming that the next park would have been a biggerp popat :)) We made of everything we saw.
We reached the path and then all the way dawn, I prayed to God to make the day better :)) Shubham said it was too late to pray to which I replied, He's God ! He can do Anything .... :) And lo and behold, we reached there and on asking the park rangers there till what time would the park be open and he said 7. We went down to the beach and there was boating, canoeing, kayaking, swimming and All the Shibang !!
And We all let out a sign of relief. We took a fishing boat, which was basically an electic boat like a aluminium tub. But it was So much fun rowing. First I went and made the boat go round and round :)) and then Shubham and Hemen had their hand. We all had a wonderful time trying all permutations and combinations and me learning how the oars actually worked. Shubham wasn't even willing to give the motor a try coz he was so gleefully happy to be rowing ...
Then once the hour was almost up, Shubham parked the boat and we went off swimming. I'd got a change of clothes for shub and myself and we had an amazing time in the lake. I made my first jump into water 5 feet deep and it was fantabulous. Shubham and Hemen went into the deeper waters to try jumping and that was fun too. Then we had a hold your breath competion. Me - 24 secs, Hemen - 23 and Shubham 27 :)) I even taught shubham how to swim ;) :)) and we dunked each other and did some acrobatics :)
After that Shub and I refeshed, changed and we all had some snacks from the food bar. Sitting at the ttable in the shade eating, we had a good time laughing at shubham's imagination at how good and economical it would be to take a tin tub into the water. If someone came to catch us, we'd just open the tub bottom and go under , submarine style . :))
Once dry, we had drove back home, which seemed a much lesser time some how and then went to Chllis where there were drinks and amazing food as always .... ME had fish , which wasn't so good but Hemen and Shub had a good time :) Hemen's fiance called. Her leg's broken and he was teasing her about fasting to lose weight. He's sure now that with the way he is , she'll have a lot of support when she comes here ... They seem to be doing good , in their own way.
Mathew's wife delivered a baby boy. Their family and they are debating about the name. Dad's birthday was today. We called late :( and heard about the beggar lady who got dad a cake and refreshments when he gave her 100 and then he ended up giving her 500. Such is the karma of goodness !
Today, we went for the Indian Wedding practice. Met a lot of new people. Lets c how it goes from here. It was pretty much a mess with Everyone givin their own opinions and ideas, of how it should all be done ! Lets c how it goes next weekend. I'm hoping it's not a mess how weddings usually end up being :)) The food taht Meera aunty served was simply U.Pish delicious. Got to hear a lot of typical U.P accents after years. :) which was pretty cute ! The dance we did was on Aagre ka Ghagra , which was totally impromptu and I felt out of place but eveyron else was happy with what we came up with. So lets c.
Spent the evening, at Borders reading recipes of all different kinds . Got some new ones . Shubham was checking otu the consumer reports and funnily all the restraunts we love just don't get good a good rating. Shows the difference between american and our thinking, I guess...
Well, we both exhausted now. After updating this , will go check my blogger site. Am really ahppy with the story I wrote for the Bloggerati contest. Lets c what the resutls end up being .
No comments:
Post a Comment