I'll be back.

I have been a bit lax on my blog scene due to my other pressing obligations such as biting my finger nails and dreaming I was a travel jockey (if there is any such thing). I am in between the biting and dreaming…thus, the post. "Thus," I say!

Ok, let’s see what else is going on. Last weekend our whole boisterous family was at the farm. My mom should be proud that my niece has inherited the exact decibel level from her…they will never need microphones in their life :-)

The mango farm was affected due to a hailstorm that hit the area a few days ago. Sadly, we may not get enjoy truckloads of mango ice cream this year. And so, we made our own cheeku and grapes-figs ice cream and inhaled the whole thing within a few minutes. Well, it was just half the quantity we started off with, because, my niece insisted on tasting the ice cream at every stage. She is going through a phase where she wants to do EVERYTHING on her own, by herself.

This weekend ten of us piled into a friend’s place to play sequence. The rule was that none of the couples would be in same team. Which meant, he was in the opposite team. And I have realized that it can get pretty competitive and most of the time is spent screaming at the “better halves” for being traitorous. I think this is one of the most fun board game for a large group. We tried two “silence” rounds where anyone who spoke would miss a turn. That’s when you realize that “sorry” and “thank you” comes so naturally to most of us. You don’t even think before you say those words.

And for my regular readers (no harm in dreaming, right?), I leave for Ahmedabad this Thursday. I will be spending the next weekend in Ahmedabad and Mumbai. I am extremely excited since I’ll be meeting the “five year old” again! So you can expect more posts about her since I usually have a hang over for at least a week. I will be flying back home on Sunday.