Living in India page 7

Living in India page 7

Christmas 2005 - Mom, Alex and Brenda are visiting

Brenda ready to go to the Qawwali singing in Nizamuddin

Mom and I playing scrabble - don't be fooled by the placid scene, this is white hot competition

lunch at the lovely Thai Wok

New Year's eve, goodbye 2005 hello 2006, and so the years fly....

these two...sigh...hopeless

On Tuesday 1/3/06 we visited the Swaminarayan Akshardham Temple, no pictures allowed inside but here's a view from the entry road through the fog

Dinner at the Olive restaurant 1/4/06

Alex and Brenda visit Fulwara, my driver's village

Don't get the idea that an exception is being made here, they're allowed on the table, we're savages like that

at the Qutab Minar

For Christmas, we took Alex to a tailor's and helped him choose a fabric for a custom suit. He (with my help and Brenda's) chose a beautiful brown cashmere wool blend by Christian Dior with a large slate gray stripe and a small beige pinstripe woven in. It was such lightweight beautiful fabric. Of course, he had to be a complete monkey about trying it on when it was finished and struck these several poses, I believe the first is his Steve Martin impression, then he moves on to what may be Christopher Walken or Right Said Fred. I'm not sure. The last is just Alex.

Brenda and I head out for her final shopping expedition...which was a complete failure since she found nothing she was looking for

While family has been visiting we've also been cat-sitting, Kevin had a great time and warmed up to everyone, I think Thai will miss him now that he's returned home. I don't think the camel is much of a replacement.

how quickly the visit has come to an end

waiting to go to the airport it seems like they just arrived, I hate when they leave

Pictures from the Dharamsala trip

Lunch at Thai wok with Priya

Fluor Family Day 2006

We had a beautiful day for it. They were held at a botanical garden on Damadama lake. There was a very good turnout and the food was fantastic. There were activities for the kids, games and dancing for the adults as well as camel and bullock cart rides.

Off we go, late of course, then we got stuck in a traffic jam that also involved this

and this truck art a working camel

our day included excellent food camel rides

And games, my favorite game to watch was "dress as a bride", four male contestants had a set time in which to don the trappings of bridal finery at hand. There were 4 pillars on the corners of the stage and on each was some part of a bride's dress. One had the sari, one had makeup, one had jewelry and the last had the red dye for the hands. It was hilarious to watch them trying to get it all done and they made a great picture when finished. Though I'm not sure they could have found bridegrooms.

the winner shown here