Trip to Detroit…
Detroit….. This is the place where Sudhar first landed in America.I have been listening and wanting to go there for a long time, and now we finally made a trip to Detroit.
Yep on 13th evening we decided to start as this was a long weekend President’s Day being on 16th.Our flight was at 6.10 pm and inspite of all the pre planning and the packing we had to rush in the last minute.We were in time and the flight was late by about 15 minutes. We reached detroit around 8.30 and Babu Athimber picked us up from the airport.
We reached home after a drive of about 40 minutes.
Detroit is a calm place very unlike New York people settledown in their houses around 9 or max 10 pm. It was full of trees and the snow . It was very difficult for me to get the feel of the place in the night.
We reached home and saw Prabha, Gautham and Cute little Divya.
I was meeting them all for the first time, athimber was asusual teasing him and asking how far sudhar has learnt hindi .
Gautham is 7 years old and was curious to know how Harini looks as he generally likes Pretty Women.I hope he wasnt much disappointed.:)…
Then comes the sweet Divya walking with much difficulty.
She is jsut 1 and a half years old and is very chweet. She almost fell in love with sudhar the at first site.She won’t leave him even for a minute.Sudhar did pretty much everything for her, feeding the food to making her sleep. She was always in his lap.She wanted to show him everything she can do, her dolls and her Fav Doggy…………and the list goes on.She likes Sun TV the most. This is not it. there are so many more things about Divya that i am not able to write and express here.The moment we call her she will show her big bunny teeth smile and run towards us.
Gautham… sudhar got him a gameboy, its a digital game which really impressed him so much that most of the time he was busy trying to learn it, and here again my dear husband plays an important role as he had to read the manual and teach him.
Sudhar on the whole did a good job of managing both the children together.
Prabha was sweet. She cooks good food, and asusual in the process we kattified so much that now we r planning to go to the gym twice.
She is a wonder woman always on her toes, does all the work.But when she is in office Babu athimber takes care of the kids, and also Divya is very attached to him.
We reached on friday evening and spent the whole time with these people.
Next day morning around 11 we started took athimber’s car and reached to meet Dana and Santosh(Sudhar’s earlier roommates).
They were good . Eagerly waiting for us to come in, They had cleaned up their house vaccumed and everything was neatly set in place.It was good to see them, so many days i have bored them on phone.Santosh doenst talk much but poor Dana i have bored him really much.Yesterday also when i was calling everybody to tell them that we have reached i was talking something to Dana for which sudhar was saying “Don’t Kill them like this”…. ha ha ha Poor Guy!!!!!!!!
We reached there after kattifying Prabha’s good food….. we were talking for sometime and started seeing thier Florida Cassette.
After a while we decided to go out somewhere as Sudhar wasnt able to sit at one place for more than a few hours, and he started getting restless.
We decided to go and meet another friend who lives in Lansing.Lansing is the state capital of Michigan and is a little far from here.WE drove for about an hour and reached to meet Kali ( i dont know what his original name is i think its Senthil Kumar) and his wife. Spent an hour there had juice and noodles.Noodles was good which she had made in a desi style with spagetti.again we kattified and came back.
We came home and spent few hours with these guys and then we decided to go back to Prabha’s place.But before we could start i realised that i was hungry as i hardly got any noodles because we 3 were sharing the plate(me, Dan and Sudhar).So Dana made me khichdi and chutney, it was really tasty .
After eating we went home spent some time with kids playing and doing a little bit of hungama.
Now was the 3rd day and again today we had lunch invittion @ Raj’s place.I have spoken to his wife a few times . She’ a doctor and was studying here after she got married. She gavebirth to a sweet little daughter and they have named her Aishwarya.I am sure she’s going to be the future Miss.World.
All of us had to go , but we wanted t buy her a small gift aswe were meeting her for the first time.
In the morning that is saturday morning 14th feb, Dana came to pick us up (and guess what???????????????????????????? Divya liked him also very much).All of us went to the mall and picked up a sweet dress for Aishu.Then we had some discount offer so we decided to buy something else but as i couldnt find anything Dana decided to take a shirt. I insisted that he should go in for a bright colour, but he took the same old traditional white with blue stripes.Well but i am sure the arguement will continue for ever.He says that he wants to enjoy the freedom as he might be getting married soon, and once he is married he might have to buy these bright colours.
Santosh was not with us all this time as he was busy at home with Suganya :)… she is also very sweet, i have spoken to her few times and we mail each other once in a while. They are getting married on 8th July.
Now as we were done in GAP we went picked up Santosh and decided to go to Raj’s place imd, as it was already 12 and we had said that we will come at 12 noon. WE thought we might speak for a little while before we have lunch.
WE were too early and they were feeling bad that the lunch was going to take another 1 hour’s time.
These guys had a good time talking but i was a little bored as his wife and mother inlaw were busy cooking. So i browsed and watched tv for sometime.
We had lunch and started after a while. Priya (Raj’s wife)has asked me to tell her if i want something from India, as she might go to India next month.
I will have to prepare a big list and give her soon :)……..
When we were sitting with these guys(Dana & Santosh) in their house, raj alled and said that he will be coming as he hadnt packed the gift they got for us and so he will come and give it to us now and he also said that they need not tell us but poor guy didnt know that he was talking on the speaker phone ha ha ha !!!!!!!!!!!
Half of the day was over, now we were wondering what to do , in the meantime these guys called up another friend who is a north indian, actually maharashtrian and told him that we will come andmeet him .
So now we decided to go a little late as we were too early at Raj’ place.
But look at the irony, this guy was a little more punctual and called us around 4 to find out where we were and why still not home.
Well they were Sameer and Jui.Sameer is actually in Dana’s classmate in his MS and now working with dan and san .
They had made aalo tikia, which was good.We wereall busy seeing their marriage album and chatting.His wife is bored at home and that guy is not getting her Zee TV ,i was telling her that i also got it recently so u also better get it. He was feeling sorry for starting the discussion :)……well lets see how soon they get it.Actually the point is how long can u watch these english movies or games or even how long can u browse the net. You need something different, i dont say that Zee TV is too good but atleast a change.We have been watching that for years now and suddenly to become an english is a little difficult and will take some time.Well finally he said that he will get it for sometime and then may be they can decide.So its my contribution :)…………..
3rd day is over we came back from sameer’s place(While coming back from Sameer’s place Sudhar showed us the Hotel where he stayed when he first landed.) and took some snaps With Santosh and Dana and then Dana dropped us home.Snap has a wonderful funny story linked to it, but i wont write it here :)………….
Dana and Santosh would have felt much better if Sudhar could have spent some mroetime with them.One thing was that we were not staying there and the other thing was that i was there with him. Well i hope they felt comfortable .
They were all hugging each other while say bye…..poor guys…:(
Outside prabha’s house when we were saying bye to Dana we saw Aravind Ranjini driving in, we(me & Ranjini) have been wanting to meet each other for a long time.
Dana said goodbye and moved, we went in with Aravind Ranjini and another slot of hungama started.We all had a good time.Those 2 kids Gautham and Divya are crazy about Arvind.They wont leave him even for a minute.
They started around 11 and Ranjini asked us to come to her place next day for lunch.
That night Prabha gave me a sweet gift.One cute little gold earring and 2 electric vilakkus to keep in the pooja room.We have started using them. I have to call Prabha and tell her that they r sweet and that they give a good lighting and a bright effect to the whole place.
Next day morning i was a little late Prabha had started for her office so i couldnt meet her.Athimber was home we played with kids had breakfast and started for Ranjini’s place.We took our bags along so that incase we are late we can start for the airport form their itself.
When i was putting the bags in the car, i hit myself in the eye and thats it.Rest of the day it was paining but i am glad its better now.
We reached Ranjini’s place, she was busy cooking.We were talking for sometime and then Arvind came. She had made good delicious food.
We asked Arvind if he could drop us at the airport.
After talking for a while around 3 we started from their place left Athimber’s car in their house and went to airport.Ranjini says that she is desperate to see NY, i have asked ehr to come lets see when she comes. WE have big plans of shopping :)…
It was good 4days.The flight was a little late.We waited… and finally reached home safely.
During the whole trip”TUMMY GOT A LOT OF YUMMY FOOD”.
I hope this graphical representation of the trip is not bad.
Sushi and Sudhar have been asking me to write it for a long time.I dont know how good it is and also if its upto the expected level.I will know soon.
Ta ta