I never really recovered from the San Diego vacation to write about it.
I must say that Anjali is adorable. It was wonderful to hold her and coo to her and do silly things to make her smile. Atul said they will come to Singapore in Dec this year and I am already counting the days (months, sigh!!)
The 2 weeks with Anjali made me want another baby. More than ever.
We did a lot of fun things in SD and also in LA. We went to Disneyland where all of us had our first ever Disneyland experience and we were lucky to go there at Christmas time so that we could witness the great Xmas parade. Arya, me and mummy saw snow for the first time at Big bear lake. We went down tubing and all that. So much fun.
Arya was Anjali's fairy godmother, she did everything short of changing diapers. I gave Anjali a bath almost every night. How she hates getting water on her face!
Kushal cooked some delicious meals for all of us. Atul and Bhawana drove us around everywhere. They needed 2 cars to fit in everyone, car seats et al.
We checked out the Y! office in SD, do you know they have real orange trees in the courtyard. We picked oranges and ate them on our roadtrip to Big Bear, hehe. Just the sheer glee of it all.
And we all shopped a great deal but not as much as we would have loved too. There was just too much to do.
Atul gave Arya a lot of love and a lot of grief, she became Adu's replacement as the object of his affection and teasing. We did miss Adu several times during the 2 weeks and wished she could have come as well. We taught Arya to play gadav, 5-3-2 and 7-8s.
We went to a lot of parties Atul's office party, etc. Arya was always hovering around Anjali playing the role of the protective older sibling.
For Arya particularly, this trip was so cool, because she got to see zoos galore. The wild animal park in San Diego is really so fascinating. We saw a lot of animals even in the puny Big Bear Zoo that we hadn't seen before. Badgers, skunks, and the like. The world-famous San Diego zoo is not half as good as the Singapore zoo, but hey, it was a zoo and Arya was in raptures.
We also went for the first time to a Costco, and it was amazing to see. Quite a wonder!
So I came back and rubbed off the saying on my cube - When was the last time you did something for the first time? There were so many firsts we did on this trip. And they were all so overdue, like this post is.
1 comment:
I didn't realize we did so many thing s in those two weeks. It was really fun and I wish we could do this more often. It was specially nice to see Arya dote over Anjali, I used to worry they won't know each other well enough to keep in touch in the future. But seeing Arya run for the bottle each time Anjali even whimpered dispelled those fears.
As for snow, Big Bear was the most we could do given Southern California's climate! The tubing was kinda lame, but what the heck, still fun.
And the amazing pictures! Thanks to K we will always have those to look at.
Btw B bought me champagne flutes alongwith a bottle of Chandon & Moet, so the next time you gift me a bottle we are prepared!
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