The Adventures of the Little Indian Girl

I think winter is finally going to set. We had such a nice warm week. And that's it. Here we go. I do remember that being a trend, we will always have a suddenly warm week and then straight into winter we go. Of course, it hasn't been this warm in December the last 8 years I have been here and clearly records show even longer time before.

So, D will be off for two weeks. She wants to come to office with me and work alongside with me and meet all my colleagues and my boss. She has already made a list of things she would need to take with her. She did share that I would need to walk her around the office so she meets everyone and she doesn't get lost. I realised later that she thinks our office takes up the whole building. Alas, we have but 4 rooms.

She says she is not going to take her coloring book because that's for children. She will take her notebook and write stories. When I shared that I will be unable to help her constantly with some big word spellings, she said she is big now and she will just S-O-U-N-D out the words and stretch them, like the word AVAAA-ILABLEEE. oh dear.

You should hear her making up her own math problems. That's even more fun!

Maybe I will do half day! And then go to the museum. Or maybe go visit the national christmas tree after. 

December 25, 2009

On a cold chilly freezing morning, with a few feet of snow piled up on either side of the road, we took a cab to the Baltimore Washington International Airport. For the first time in the two year history I have been here, we had an American drive us, Caucasian to boot! Very friendly and a local guy, shared a lot about his life and how things have changed in the metro-DC area. As many cab drivers, he peppered his talk with religion, politics, philosophy, family story, and life in general. A great start to Christmas morning!

We were eagerly awaiting our flight departure and escape to the warmth of Florida. Luckily by then the airports had cleared up their runways and we were all set to go!



You can still see the snow cover on the non-essential part of the airport. But we didn't care. We could already feel the warmth of sun and the light breeze blowing onto our faces. We landed 2 and half hour later in Fort Lauderdale. MIL wondered if weather had an effect on people and their moods. Surely there must be some truth to it as we had such a friendly shuttle driver who picked us up and drove us to the car rental place! Although who wouldn't want to show off a place to a bunch of visitors still defrosting from the cold North! After picking up the car, we found ourselves driving down to Ft Lauderdale beaches.

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All pictures in this post and the following were taken either by MIL or N. A handful were taken by me, but none that are shown here! I really relaxed! ;)

Enjoying Mumbai! :) The city welcomed me in with the usual Mumbai pollution and humidity! Coming here from Singapore or Malaysia, the humidity didn't feel all that much different. But coming from DC, whoa, it hits you in the face! I feel forever drenched! The heat as well doesn't help! It should be cooling down a bit soon!

I took the train in Mumbai, on sunday during the off-peak hours and today just as the rush set in and made it through in one piece!

Haven't read anyone's journals. No time to yet! Busy eating away good yummy food!