Saturday, January 30, 2010
Party!
We had a really small birthday party for the twins, 4 kids, two were siblings. Nick and Laura did not mind. Though I promised them a big party for next year.
Friday, January 29, 2010
Thursday, January 28, 2010
my friend sofie and i made this video tonight
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpegRJyrHeY
in response to our friend's (who wants to be a ~pop star~)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yIpK2EBu1o
not quite CSI: brockport, but as far as my creative juices will flow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpegRJyrHeY
in response to our friend's (who wants to be a ~pop star~)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yIpK2EBu1o
not quite CSI: brockport, but as far as my creative juices will flow
Monday, January 25, 2010
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Friday, January 22, 2010
What do you think?
Someone asked to post pics from my flickr account onto their account called Women in Sarees (Saris)?
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Monday, January 18, 2010
Some from Christmas
Junu poses for Nick.
The older kids are so old!
Susi and Laura
Self portrait of the artist as a young Nick.
Sunday, January 17, 2010
More from India
The top photo is from the roof of the Worrier House looking to the back. The monkey mother and child are at Ajanta.
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Friday, January 15, 2010
The Brockport crew arrived home at 4:30 this morning
Ashwani, Hannah, and I parted company with Kamala, Sam and Eliza after arriving from India at Newark around 8:30 last night. Since we had missed our connecting flight, by a day, we rented a car and drove home, arriving at 4:30 this morning.
We had a very good time. From the top, Ajanta Caves, Near Aurangabad, and then at Ellora , the Kalash Temple, a monolythic structure .
geneva
Hi from Geneva. we are well but tiered and looking forward to to home next week. Welcome back to the india group, I heard you are arriving today.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Delayed by "fog"
They're now supposed to leave at 1:40 p.m. tomorrow, a 14 hour delay. Cross your fingers.
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Memorial
The memorial mass for my father will be on Thursday February 18 at 3:00 pm in the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola.
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
ELM is having trouble with the computer and posted this as a comment to the previous post, so I copied it here.
I am having trouble getting around on this computer, so I will report here.
Kamala is 'out' today. But the siperol should have her in shape for tomorrow. We are getting up at 4:15 am in the morning to catch a plane to Delhi at 6 something. I hope our driver makes it on time!! There is dense fog in the North, The plane from Dehli to Chandagarh has already been cancelded so our wonderful Sujata has arranged a car to meet us in Dehli and drive us there.
We have just finished a meal in the hotel dining room, where we and then later one other table joined the large area with live music. An awesome responsibility for an audience. We liked them.
We saw the Mylapore Temple this morning, but because of this and that, we opted out of further tours. I am almost finished with my book. Hmmm. Oh, we did go to Higabottoms Book Store.
We have learned a lot on this tour because of having guides. Without a guide, we are on the lazy side.
We all miss you all. elm
January 5, 2010 7:48 AM
Kamala is 'out' today. But the siperol should have her in shape for tomorrow. We are getting up at 4:15 am in the morning to catch a plane to Delhi at 6 something. I hope our driver makes it on time!! There is dense fog in the North, The plane from Dehli to Chandagarh has already been cancelded so our wonderful Sujata has arranged a car to meet us in Dehli and drive us there.
We have just finished a meal in the hotel dining room, where we and then later one other table joined the large area with live music. An awesome responsibility for an audience. We liked them.
We saw the Mylapore Temple this morning, but because of this and that, we opted out of further tours. I am almost finished with my book. Hmmm. Oh, we did go to Higabottoms Book Store.
We have learned a lot on this tour because of having guides. Without a guide, we are on the lazy side.
We all miss you all. elm
January 5, 2010 7:48 AM
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Friday, January 1, 2010
New Years Day in Trichy
Morning at Worrier House. (Pardon the spelling, my spelling reference happens to be in US.) It was fun. We wandered through the whole house, taking many pictures. This is the first time I have really been in the house itself. Yoga and Kalyanam are camping out there, as well as Gowri. who is sick, and Sunkari who went somewhere soon after we arrived. Kannam came, invited us to his house. We went to lunch there. It was DELICIOUS, and had everything in a regular Talli.
Meera was there, she is lovely, and she was an excellent translater, as was Ashwani, who did the translations from Hindi to English..
Then, we had a fantastic experience. We were taken to the Santum Santoum (again, sp. apologies). It was not easy. The Temples were mobbed yesterday because of New Years being somewhat of a holy day. Raja, and Ashwani's providing a decent amount of money got us past the sign saying ONLY HINDUS ALOWED. Descriptions of this experience will come your way eventually. By the way, I gracefully said many times, I will wait out side. Raja insisted.
The beautiful blind in one eye elephant met our expectations. Since we had nothing less than a 50 rupee note, he made out well. (Barbara, he blessed us on the head, no kisses.)
We went to Shrinagar from there, same large crowd and Hindus only. I opted to stay in the car with our very helpful and pleasant driver.
That is about it, except that Ashwani has just returned from the chemist with siperol for me, and I missed the step onto a platform in the bar last night and reinjured my shoulder. I do not think I will manage to get a sivar over my head now. I am truly all right, with just some handicaps. Others will have to manage my luggage onto our 2nd class air conditioned (we hope) sleeper tonight when we go back to Chennai en route to Mahabalipuram.
Meera was there, she is lovely, and she was an excellent translater, as was Ashwani, who did the translations from Hindi to English..
Then, we had a fantastic experience. We were taken to the Santum Santoum (again, sp. apologies). It was not easy. The Temples were mobbed yesterday because of New Years being somewhat of a holy day. Raja, and Ashwani's providing a decent amount of money got us past the sign saying ONLY HINDUS ALOWED. Descriptions of this experience will come your way eventually. By the way, I gracefully said many times, I will wait out side. Raja insisted.
The beautiful blind in one eye elephant met our expectations. Since we had nothing less than a 50 rupee note, he made out well. (Barbara, he blessed us on the head, no kisses.)
We went to Shrinagar from there, same large crowd and Hindus only. I opted to stay in the car with our very helpful and pleasant driver.
That is about it, except that Ashwani has just returned from the chemist with siperol for me, and I missed the step onto a platform in the bar last night and reinjured my shoulder. I do not think I will manage to get a sivar over my head now. I am truly all right, with just some handicaps. Others will have to manage my luggage onto our 2nd class air conditioned (we hope) sleeper tonight when we go back to Chennai en route to Mahabalipuram.
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