Dear Friends and Family,
We didn’t make it to the Film Studios last weekend, but we did make it to the zoo. What a great place! They had a white tiger, elephant rides, safari tours, and also all of the regular zoo animals. We didn’t have time for the elephant ride or safari tour this time, so we will be going back soon. Claire loved it! Especially the monkeys and horses (the horse was actually a donkey). She’s really into monkeys and horses right now. Grandma Joyce and Aunt Ashley bought her a stuffed monkey and horse yesterday. She loves them and keeps giving them lots of kisses.
Sunday night we had all of Clay’s help desk team over to our house for a little UNO action. I think they were quite impressed with the level of complexity in this particular card gameJ Mom made 2 dishes, one was a pasta with cream base and the other was rice with tomato base. I think the rice was a bigger hit for the general population here, just because they don’t eat a lot of cheesy things, but of course my favorite was the pasta. They devoured them both. Thanks mom!
Monday night we went to dinner at Anupama’s house, a member of Clay’s helpdesk. She is the same girl that taught us how to make gulab jammuns. It was a wonderful time. We had great conversation and wonderful food. Anupama actually gifted me a sari that she had hand embroidered herself. It’s orange with black embroidery. I can’t wait to learn how to wear it! She also gave Claire some bangles and mom a beautiful marble statue of the Taj Mahal. This family is in the process of looking for a husband for one of their daughters (not Anupama), so I’m learning about all of the complexities of that. There’s websites and all sorts of cool places to place adds, converse, and share pictures before meeting people. It’s also interesting to learn about all of what they look for in a spouse, family, language, caste, religion, profession, etc.
Ashley arrived safe and sound late Tuesday night and has spent the last couple of days recovering from the long journey and getting used to the time change. Mom gave her a 2 day crash course of everything she learned over the last 2 months. Mom left last night, so there’s lot’s of change going on in our house right now. I think Claire is a little confused.
We were invited to another wedding, this one is this Sunday and the reception is the following Sunday. We are so excited! It’s the wedding of a co-worker’s brother.
I saw a couple of cows in the street on the way to work today and it reminded me that I forgot to add a comment on my email after we got back from Chennai. When we were visiting the crocodile bank a cow gored mom. No major injuries, just a bruise. Mom thought it was interesting that the cow let Clay, Claire, and I go by without so much as a glance, but when she walked by the cow went after her. Actually the rest of us didn’t even see it happen! I told mom that it must have been her yellow outfit that attracted the cow, who knows.
Hyderabad Info:
I learned this week that Hyderabad was called the “Land of the Lakes” at one time it had 256 lakes. Interesting.
New word
Achacha- Ok
New Claire stuff:
New word- Nice
New gesture- The shoulder shrug/I don’t know move. It’s quite funny, we’ll try to catch it on camera and post it to the site.
Miss you all!
Sincerely,Julianna Ehlers
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