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My sister Alison left yesterday to go back to her home in Californa. We drove to another city to the airport (it was chaper)... Aashini hasn't really fallen in love with the whole "carseat thing" yet :) haha! It was soooo cute! When it was time for Alison to go to her gate we told Aashini that Alison was leaving and to say bye -- Aashini just started crying and waving to Alison - it was so sad and cute!! She really seemed like she knew what was going on! She would look at Alison and wave and cry! She was really sad that Alison was leaving. Today were some local elections. We went in to vote and Aashini got to vote... well... sort-of :)

We're here - we've made it to America ;) The flight went surprisingly well - thanks soooooo much for lifting us up - that's totally why the flight went so smoothly! Aashini slept but not too much - so she's doing great and hasn't really dealt with much jet lag at all - it's amazing :) We thought we were going to get stuck in Miami - we got there just as the edge of Hurricane Fay was coming into town... but it worked out perfectly - just a bunch of turbulence :) So we had a few interesting first impressions... one is that water fountains are amazing!!! We've been having a blast drinking out of them! Another first impression was that people in the service industry in America are definitely not as nice or as helpful as South Asians in the service industry. We were on our first flight on our way to Chicago... we asked the flight attendant to get the bassinet . Aashini fell asleep in Adam's lap and then they brought us our food, so I had both ...

Since we're leaving for our first stateside since coming to South Asia, I thought I'd post one of my favorite memories :) When we first moved to South Asia to M-town, the kids of the family that we lived with (the Kumars), invited us to see the kid's Athletic Day. Well, one of the traiditions at most school's Athletic Days (in the North) is to have a race for the parents. The dads went first... there were only a few dads that went.... and then the moms.... There were so many that wanted to race, that they had to have 2 races! I love this pic below because you can see how they tied up their saris and suits and dupattas :) Lemme tell you! They were aggressive!!!! The were pushing and shoving!! A bunch of ladies fell down - it was one of the most entertaining things ever! Here they are all running in their fancy saris and suits! And here they are running to the finish line :) It was hilarious!! What's great too, is that after this they had an event for the grandpare...

Today is our 6 year anniversary :) Our awesome friends Fred & Lydia watched Aashini while Adam and I went out to eat and to a movie... we saw Kung Fu Panda (we only have so many English film options) - but it was a lot of fun :) We realized today that we've been in South Asia for half of our marriage! Today is also the H'ndu g0d Krishna 's birthday. (Random fact - he almost always has blue skin in his pictures). In most places, his birthday is celebrated in the evening and late at night. We got home from our movie and had only been home about 30 minutes when there was a "parade" going down our street! (My camera is still in the shop, so these pics aren't the best...) TONS of people and float going down the street! It was crazy - and really loud! Besides being popular with H'ndus, people that follow ISKCON / Hare Krishna really love this holiday. ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness) is not that popular here - but is very popular in...

So I just realized today that I never posted out Photo Booth picture from Thailand :) For those new to my blog... Since 2005, we've been taking pictures at all the fun photo booths when we make trips to Thailand. If you want to see the other pictures check it out! July 2007 2005-2006 So... here it is :)... Summer 2008 haha!

Since we're going to the states in a couple of weeks and will be gone about 5 months, we needed to take a trip to M-town before we left :) We took our favorite express train over there - which was great! Aashini has ridden on a train once before -but she slept though it - she actually got to enjoy it this time :) haha! First stop was Jaya & Mayank's house. Aashini had fun getting to play with them and at their house :) It was fun getting to see them :) After that we went to a few other people's houses for a few minutes and then we to the Kumar's house. Aashini had a lot of fun there too :) Mona didi let her play with her bangles and she thought that was so cool! Shakshi started playing the Sitar - so seh performed for us :) For our ride home, we weren't able to go on our favorite Express train, so we rode on the Mail train. It's a sleeper train (it goes a long distance). We only rode on it for 2 hours, so not bad :) This train is fun but somehow we ended...