First School Purchase

Last month, we made the first school purchase for Srinidhi. We bought this Dora-the-explorer lunch box. Veena always thought Dora items are girlish and shied away from it, even though Srinidhi loves Dora. YES, he will be going to school in couple of weeks!

இன்னும் இரண்டு வாரங்களில், ஸ்ரீநிதிக்கு பள்ளிக்கூடம் திறக்கிரது. வீட்டருகே உள்ள UCUMC பள்ளி. வாரம் இரண்டு அல்லது மூன்று நாள் மட்டுமே வகுப்பு; ஒரு நாளுக்கு நான்கு மணி நேரம் மட்டுமே. பள்ளி சம்பந்தமாக, நாங்கள் ஸ்ரீநிதிக்கு முதல் முதல் வாங்கியது, இந்த டோரா லஞ்ச் பாக்ஸ்.

There is a Mexican bakery near South Blvd-Archdale in Charlotte. We stop by there from time to time. We stopped by there yesterday and picked some sweets. For my local friends that read the blog, I recommend it, if you can afford to eat lot of butter, sugar and carbs. It is nothing extraordinary, just a good Mexican bakery.

We went to the lake for a swim last evening. That's Srinidhi floating on the tube, for the first time. Where am I??? I am hiding on the other side of the tube.

After swimming, we stopped by a Marina that has a good Italian Restaurant, Putt Putt golf and other amusements.

This marina has an area where we can feed these large fishes. These fishes are two to three feet in length. (Being a vegetarian, I do not know much about fish varieties. One I could identify was the cat fish.) Note the fishes are larger than the duck!! There are few dozen in this picture. We can take the fish feedd very close to the water, and they almost pick it from our hand.

We played a round of Putt Putt golf.

Veena feeding the fish. (Isn't it good to feed the fish instead of feeding on the fish :-)

Ganesh and Mathula had invited us for dinner yesterday. (Ganesh is from my alma mater RECT, five years junior to me.) Ganesh's father has come from India. Here, Srinidhi and Aditya playing.

ஆதித்யாவுடன்.

The weekend of the 25th Anniversary Celebration of the Peters', we spent half a day on Kaayal Pura with them and family.

...Roy...

...Susan...

...Shilpa...

...Johny Uncle...

...Paul Uncle...

...Stancy Aunty...

...Rose Mary Aunty and Simson Uncle...

...Benny and Smitha and Joshua...

...Niz and Joshua...

...Joy, Jeffry and Benoy...

...Benoy, Sonia and Hannah...

...Everyone, including Sybil Aunty, Molly Chechy, Zachary, Jake and Harriel. By all accounts, everyone had lot of fun.

I was away! I had to do one of those rare business travels. I was in NY, NJ area for four days. It was a totally busy weekend at work. Didn't get to do anything other than work, so the break in the blog. Now resuming...