India Night @ Urbana

This weekend we went to Bloomington for the India Night function in Durga's school. On saturday morning we started and reached there by noon. Uma akka had prepared 5 different rice for Dhevi. After lunch Dhevi started to feel uncomfortable. Sitting, standing, lying down...everything was tough. We decided to go out and buy some coke and also visit the nursery to buy the Jasmine plants. They didn't have any. Coke seemed to help for sometime, but not for long. Back at home, Dhevi slept for sometime.

Evening was better. Until now we have not seen a program where the audiences were not given even a 2-3 min break to get distracted. We have requested for the video coverage. It was a mixture of skits, songs and dances by the Indian students. And the girls carried thier sarees so well..Hats off to them! We dropped Durga in his hostel and go pizza to-go.

Next day we left immediately after breakfast. After reaching home and refreshing, we started for the Special Delivery baby shop in geneva, IL. We went to look at peg-perago strollers. But Ed liked the Bugaboo better. So we decided to buy the Cameleon (Red and Black).

Enga vittula vishesham

On the way back from St.Louis, Dhevi wanted to stop for buying cake...Ed wouldn't hear about it. Ed forgot about his Birthday. Dhevi had to remind "Enga vittula vishesham...adhukku cake vanganum..." After coming home we decided to bake cake...but didn't have all the ingredients. So we went to Dominicks, got the cake, candles, a vase etc.

Around 10 we were so tired from the trip that we decided to cut the cake little early. Finally Dhevi got Ed smile for the photograph. The magic word is "Gitzo" -his new tripod's make. He wanted to open it on Friday, Dhevi stopped him and gave the gift on Sunday night.

For Amma..the magic word is "Samyu". To make her smile suchi will say "Chammuu" instead of cheeeese.

Chicago 2010

Thursday was busy with the rehersal in Aurora temple. We fixed the date for Baby shower:) (Dhevi worked from home on Friday to avoid the commute. Evening we started for Bloomington. Met 2 little girls in Giri Uncle's place. After dinner and some chat we slept. Saturday we started the drive for St.Louis. The weather was nice, to sun, no chill...like a perfect evening. We went to the temple then to the hotel to rest for a while. Got up from the afternoon nap...got dressed nicely...While tying the vesti for his first scene..Ed was excited and said.."En kalyanathukku poreen"...Well..Dhevi had to remind him of her and the baby:)



With nice pattu saree and white vesti we came out to find that it was pouring. Ed went to get Passat and got all wet in the process. We warned others of the rain. The drama went well. We wanted to see the kannada drama "chandrabaavi estate"..But since it started very late we couldn't. On the way back we dropped Ravi/Sharanya (People we met as part of Chicago 2100..not Ravi/Saran from MD:) in their friends place and stayed there for sometime (had another round of dinner :) Back at the hotel Ed was watching drama video and Dhevi was snoring with in 5 mins.

Sunday we got ready ahead of time (surprise surprise...) and started the drive back. It was too sunny...and the heavy breakfast didn't help. On the way back we stopped in Bloomington for some walk (in Home depot and got some garden tools) and lunch. We enjoyed the drive. But it was tiring....