Last weekend was really fun.
Friday night Ash and Clay went to the weekly expatriate get together and met some interesting individuals. People from every country have something in common when they are away from home. Then they went to Fusion 9 to listen to the jazz band.
Saturday the 4 of us and Bargya went to the Waterfront restaurant next to the Hussein Sagar lake (there are some new pictures on the photo website of this). It's really a neat little area. There's a boardwalk type spot where they have a food court and a play area for kids with a merry go round, and lots of mechanical animals including a giraffe train (Claire noticed that one first). We also went and saw the 40' Ganesh that will be thrown into the lake on the 17th (new photos of this as well.)
Saturday night Clay and I ventured out on our own, yes completely on our own. Clay drove the 2 of us down the street to a place called Galazy/Elixir for a drink. We didn't go too far, but it was nice to get out without the driver. We think our driver is great, but coming from a life where we were completely independant, it gets a bit old waiting on people. All went well, and Clay felt like the king of the mountain, a mountain where people drive on the left side of the road.
Sunday we went to another dhaba called Dhola-Ri-Dhani, it is a little village for kids (also pictures of this adventure on the website). There is lots of fun stuff to do. We road a camel, ate on the floor, road on a train, played on play ground equipment, watched a magic show and much more. I do have to say that the camel ride was much bumpier than I was prepared for. Claire loved looking at the camel, but wasn't too excited about the ride.
The lunch was really interesting; I think the food was kind of iffy. Clay dug right in and Ash and I were a little more reserved. They did have a great dessert; I think each of us had 4-5 of them.
The magic show was amazing, he did all the normal stuff and I have no idea how. He was really good. The one thing that really threw us off was that he asked us each to think of a flower, so we did. Clay chose lotus and Ash and I chose rose. Then he asked us to rub our wrists together like we were rubbing perfume on and then smell our hands. They actually smelled like the flowers we chose! We have no idea how, the 3 of us were flabbergasted. He didn't touch any of us so we have no idea how this happened. If any of you know this trick, we would be interested in hearing about it.
Monday Ash got some great photos of Claire on her “bike” in the courtyard, be sure to check them out, they are hilarious. Note all of the facial expressions.
Best Email of the Week:
Sent Tuesday from the Director of Operations for Kenexa in India:
“We have opened the new facility in Aditya Trade Center on 12th September 2005. Initially Tarun and Harish with their respective teams have moved in to the new facility yesterday and the operation team heartily welcomes the teams. We could provide basic facilities only at ATC facility as on today and I wish that We could provide you everything that is desirable for the comfortable working of the people. I apologize to one and all at the ATC facility as we could not provide the 100% facility and putting in our best to soothe out the change over. I request one and all to help us provide you our best services.”
Note that he sent this email from our current office to people in the new office who can’t access their email.
Claire’s new words:
Mysis=Medicine
Ky=Sky
Weelow=Window
Dillo=Armadillo
Gilla=Gorilla
Raybow=Rainbow
Tar=Star
Heart
Tirt=Shirt
Pants
On Tuesday Claire told me, “arm cold” so we got a sweater. She is the grand communicator in our house.
Claire has been very excited about picking out clothes and wearing them. On Wednesday I asked Claire what she wanted to wear, she said “dress” so I pulled out one, she said, “no”, I pulled out another, she said, “no”, and she was pointing to another. I said, “Do you want this one?” she said “yes.” She’s quite the fashion queen. She was also quite adamant about the shoes I was to wear that day.
Side note-Those of you who haven’t already seen it, check out Clay’s blog about the auto rickshaw “high speed” chase he was in. You have to scroll down a bit the date was Thursday August 25th.
Sincerely,Julianna Ehlers
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