Fabulous India Trip - August 2011 - Part 2

Day 3 - Tuesday
Today we did more shopping. We also bought dance jewelry. We picked out more dresses and went to our cousins Sunidhi and Sumedha's place in a taxi. We played a lot of games. I tried to teach Connect Four to Sunidhi. We played a game where we all sat in a circle and one person ran around and dropped a cloth behind somebody. When the person said "look", we all looked behind and whoever had the cloth now tried to tag the person who put it. It was a nice game. We had dinner at their house. Madhura attha, who is Sunidhi's mom, made Pav Bhaji. It was delicious. Sasmith mama, who is Sunidhi's dad, gave us all a ride on his scooter. Sunidhi and I sat in the back, while Pranav and Sumedha stood in the front. It was fantastic. We took pictures while eating and playing. Then we went home in a taxi.

Day 4 - Wednesday
Today, we just took rest. From all the previous days, we did so much shopping that we were so tired. So, we stayed at Abhilash's house and played games. Later in the evening, we all went to Chennai shopping mall. It was gigantic. There were so many varieties of clothes. After Abhilash came home from school, I showed him my "Illusions" book. He liked it.

Day 5 - Thursday
Today, we went to 2 other places. First, we went to my dad's cousin sister's place. There was a 5 year old boy there with who we played outside. Then, we went to Aishwarya and Saranya akka's house. We ate yummy chinese food for dinner. Pranav fell asleep and did not eat much. It was a long drive back to Abhilash's house.

Day 6 - Friday
Today morning, we started our next leg of the journey. It was to my mom's place where ammamma and thathagaru live. First, it was a 6 hour journey to a place called Vijayawada where we went to see our apartment. It was on the 9th floor and the view from there was awesome with lot of fields around. Ammamma, thathagaru and Lalitha ammamma came to meet us there. They brought some snacks for us. We ate those snacks and then started another 2 hour journey to ammamma's place. On the way, we ate dinner at a restaurant and finally reached home. It was night time, so we all slept immediately.

Fabulous India Trip - August 2011 - Part 1

Day 1 - Sunday
Today, at 6AM, we landed in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. We took a taxi from the airport to my dad's uncle's place. I saw my cousin Abhilash there. I also saw my dad's grandparents. For lunch, we went to a restaurant called Tabla with my cousin. Tabla means an instrument which is like a drum. The sad part was I did not eat as I fell asleep. Afterwards, we went to buy a saree for my bharathanatyam dance dress. It was a pattu saree which we had to give for stitching the next day. I picked dry orange color with red border. Then we went home and took rest.

Day 2 - Monday
Today we went shopping for dresses for my mom and myself. We also went to the dance dress tailor for the measurements, so he can get that ready. We ate a late lunch at a Chinese fast food restaurant. Then we took an auto to go to our cousin's place. An auto is a motor vehicle with 3 wheels and open on the sides with no doors. It cannot carry much weight. Around 5 people can sit in this auto. I met several cousins there including Spoorthi akka, Kausthubh who is 6, Sunidhi who is 8 and Sumedha who is 2. Pranav slept on his way there. He woke up after some time and played a lot with Kausthubh with all his toy cars. Like Pranav, Kausthubh too loves cars. He has a big collection of several different types of small toy cars. We all went to a very nice restaurant called 1947. The food there was awesome. It rained heavily that day. After dinner, Sunidhi's dad dropped us at Abhilash's house.