Skip to main content

Happy Birthday???

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 the west. You've probably seen them at football games or city-wide events, dressed up with drums and chanting "Hare Krishna" or giving out "free" food at universities.
Check out this chalk drawing on our street! They did that in about 15 minutes!
You can see a lot of the followers of ISKCON / Hare Krishna in this picture. Some of them are easy to spot, they have that little clump of hair on the back of their heads.
Our across the street neighbors I guess are the ones that had them come to our street because they did a lot of stuff at their house - everyone came into their gate, they brought the g0d into their gate, and gave everyone standing around their gate food. It was pretty entertaining for a while :)

Labels:

Comments

The Agarwals said…
Happy Anniversary! I think about your fun special day all the time! We have a pic of all 4 of us at your wedding in our kitchen. I hope it was super awesome- just like you two! We love you lots and can't wait to see what He has in store for you both over the next 6 years !!
7:00 AM
SouthAsiaRocks said…
THanks Annie!
You guys ROCK! :)
8:46 AM
Erin G said…
congratulations!

know what I was thinking as I looked at these pics? how you must up high, and how I half admire you for carrying your child up all those stairs (I assume there's no lift?) every day, and the other half is jealous because I would probably kill for your leg muscles.

I'm so distracted by this that I barely noticed the chalk colors. what does that say about me?

anyway congrats. :)
9:50 AM
SouthAsiaRocks said…
haha! That's funny :) yeah... lots of stairs - no lift - not so fun when pregnant :) haha! I always had to stop and rest halfway :)
12:34 PM
Bronie said…
happy anniversary!! you guys are amazing, and we love you. hope you enjoyed the 'panda'...hey, a date's a date when you've got kids. :)
7:51 PM
Misty Burns said…
Happy Anniversary!!! 6 years is awesome!!! good for you!
8:24 PM
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Dusshera 2012

This year, our neighborhood was quite active for Dusshera.  At one end of our street, one of the major political parties here, set up a Dusshera celebration.   Here are some guys putting the effigies together and filling it full of fireworks! They had quite the political statement for their celebration.  (Basically that expensive water, fuel, electricity, diesel, gas, etc and FDI (bringing in foreign companies like Wal-Mart) are like Raverna (the demon god)... and are the evils of today....)  Here's their set-up at the end of our street.... you can't see it very well, but they had all three effigies there that they burned....  They burned VERY quickly at this one... So quickly that by the time I pulled out my camera, it was already on the ground!!  Our street looked like those CNN videos of rioting cities :) haha!!  There was burning stuff all over the street :)  Many people will get a piece of the leftover wood/bamboo...
Post a Comment
Read more

Funny Things 2 - American Fair Edition

We just got back from Roadtrip #8 in Macon, GA. It was an awesome trip!! So, before we head out on the next trip, we went to the North Florida Fair! The fair is always famous for it's fried foods... they fried everything!!... They had fried/breaded zucchini, Mushrooms, Broccoli, Cauliflower, Onions, green tomatoes, okra, pickles, etc :) I had a lot of it too - YUM! Now, I'd heard of fried Snickers & twinkies (which they had) but they also had FRIED OREOS & PEANUTBUTTER CUPS :) The fair was cool. They had a shark show and a sea lion show... but our favorite was the pig races :) haha!!! It was hilarious!! Aashini was close up to the race until the pigs came - then she crawled up into Adam's lap really fast :) (as seen below) :) Pig races! haha! Cracks me up!
13 comments
Read more

In Thailand!

We flew to Bangkok, Thailand today! The flight went well :) Aashini cried a little, but did awesome! We got the bulkhead seat and they even had an extra seat next to us! Aashini really only set in it for a pic or two, but it was fun anyway :) You can see the Buddhist monk in red behind Aashini. The guy that set next to us was a Monk also, he was actually the translator for the Dalai Lama ! Cool hunh? It was funny because he was typing on his laptop the whole flight (and Aashini was grabbing at his robe - haha!) This picture below cracked me up so I had to post it :) When we got here we had to go get a few things at the grocery store :) Aashini went to her first grocery store in the Middle East, but this was her first time getting to ride in a cart!!! She LOVED it!! She was swining her legs, babbling up a storm and looking at everything! Thai people LOVE babies!!! She got a lot of attention today! I have a feeling she's going to get a lot of attention the next coupl...
12 comments
Read more