Day 15 - Day 23
Sunday and Monday were lazy days. Monday, Aug 15th, was India Independence Day. On this day in 1947, India got freedom from the British. Since all the shops are closed, we just stayed home and played. It was so hot those days, so we stayed in the A/C rooms. On Tuesday, we went to a few shops and bought dresses for mom. We came back and ate dinner. On Wednesday, we just stayed home. On Thursday, Bharathi ammamma came to PPalli and we went to do some saree shopping. In the evening, a rikshaw came and took us for a ride. A rikshaw is like a tricycle which pulls people sitting on a wooden platform in the back. It felt bumpy. We had noodles for dinner and we were so tired, we went right to sleep. On Friday, we went to a picture printing shop. We also went to a shop where they sell steel vessels. We took a rikshaw to go to the shop to pick up the stitched dresses. We took an auto to go to an aunty's place. Thathagaru picked us up in his car and we went back to the shop to pick up some remaining dresses. While we were there it started raining. Then we went back home. The next day Pranav and I took pictures with ammamma and thathagaru all around the house. Bamma came from Ongole to go with us to Hyderabad. A car came to drive us to Hyderabad. The road was very bumpy and in one place, our luggage from the top of the car hit a sign near the railway tracks and the whole thing, including the rods attached to the car, fell down. It took one hour to fix it. We started again. I ate mangoes and pomegranate in the car. We passed and saw the Nagarjuna Sagar Dam. It was cool to see the dam. Right after we passed that, we went to a fancy restaurant. I ate Chinese pulao and Manchurian. It got dark by the time we reached Hyderabad. We slept in Abhilash's house. On Sunday morning, we started to go to Kaustubh's house for lunch. Halfway thru, we noticed that we forgot our passports. So, we went back to get them. And we finally reached Kaustubh's house. We did a puzzle and took a few pictures. We ate lunch and my mom had to take her flight back to Boston. Thathagaru and daddy dropped her off at the airport. While coming back, daddy got us burgers and while eating we watched the dance performance video.
We walked over to Sunidhi's house. We played duck, duck, goose. We slept over at Sunidhi's house. We woke up the next morning and by the time we woke up, ammamma went to Kaustubh's house to get all our clothes and stuff. We took bath. It was Krishna Ashtami that day. Sunidhi and Kaustubh did not have school. Sumedha's baby sitter made noodles for all of us. We ate and played a bit. We ate lunch and waited for Sumedha to sleep so we could go to Kaustubh's house. At one point, we thought she was sleeping and tried to get out. When we got out the door, we started dancing. But Sumedha saw us and came out to dance too. So that did not work. We tried another plan by putting the shoes at the back door and sneaking out from there. We walked back to Kautubh's house. I ate pomegranate. Pranav ate a banana. We played and slept there. Sunidhi went back to her house.
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