It’s definitely nice to be back in India. The smell, the chaos, the cultural familiarity, the Golden Temple, friends, family, SAIBI!! It was fantastic to see her again, naturally.
It’s also fun to be back with an awesome camera this time. I don’t even have to pay attention. I just sort of lackadaisically click at things out the window as I’m passing by and fantastic pictures just sort of manufacture themselves. It’s great. As are the paranthas, the tiki prgbersg what? That is supposed to be burgers. And the burfi. Mmmm.
Yesterday we took a bunch of school kids out for dinner at a crappy yet apparently popular place (it’s new and American, what can I say?) called Bakes and Beans. What kind of a name is that? Nevermind, you can’t start asking questions like that when you’re in India, it’s much too exhausting. Anyway, in addition to the very odd conjuration of quasi American food, they have about ten different ways to order a chocolate coffee shake, all of which produce the exact same drink. We tested it. Well, ok, I’m being a bit harsh, there are in fact two varieties among those ten options. Plain chocolate and chocolate with so little coffee that it doesn’t really taste much different than the plain chocolate. And I believe that a Chocosparkle is slightly more watery than a basic Icy Mocha, though I personally would be willing to bet on that not being intentional. Well anyway, the point is, that between these homogenous chocolate shakes and my reunion with a bunch of awesome people, it was a very entertaining evening.
I should probably fill you in on the deal here. It’s a fairly simple one. The plan goes thus: I meet my mother in India, we pick up my sister from school in Amritsar, and then we spend a week doing Khalsa Ladies Camp Anandpur 2007. We return to Amritsar, the camp disperses, my father arrives, we spend Saibi’s spring break going somewhere. Where? Well we don’t know yet. Just somewhere. Got it? First half, women’s camp, second half, family vacation. Y’all are doing good. Ok, let’s move ahead.
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