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South Asia in America!!

Tonight we went to an awesome South Asian First Birthday Party :) My friend Priya has a daughter (Ananya) who just had her first birthday, so they threw a big bash! There were about 40-50 South Asians there - and since I'm missing SA, I loved it! Here's the Birthday girl (below) with my friend Priya and her husband.
Ananya liked her first taste of cake!
This is my other friend Jyoti :)
This is Jyoti's daughter, Parisha. Aashini had the best time playing with her! At one point they started holding hands :) it was so cute :)
They had soooo much food! This is only one table of food. They put the little flags (food labels) in the food just for us :) Priya made all of the food herself!! It was a lot of work! They also had appetizers and deserts!
Aashini really had a lot of fun and made a lot of new friends!
Here are Aashini and I with the birthday girl and Priya :) And yes, everyone was wearing a sari... Priya called everyone and told them to wear a sari... except me - she didn't want to embarass me if I didn't have one - haha! So instead, I was one of the only ones wearing jeans :)
Here is Adam with his new friends :)
Today it was really cold, so we came to the party all bundled up... but they cranked up the heat inside - so we really felt like we were back in South Asia! haha! We had a lot of fun and made a lot of new friends - it was awesome! It was cool to be in South Asia while here in America ;)

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Shannon said…
Love your friend's name - Jyoti ;)
Our little Jyoti still has not arrived, but we're waiting patiently.

Too bad you didn't get a chance to wear a sari. Sounds like you guys had fun. :)
5:07 PM
SouthAsiaRocks said…
Yeah Shannon, I thought about you when I first met Jyoti a few months ago AND when I was typing this last night and wondering about Your little Jyoti :)
7:05 PM
Erin G said…
too fun! that little dress/shirt they had on ananya is gorgeous.
8:21 PM
Erin G said…
and I'm sorry you didn't get to wear your sari. sound like you would have loved an excuse to!
8:22 PM
Anonymous said…
Oh that looks like so much fun! You guys look so good and warm!
9:46 PM
Emily said…
I'm so jealous you met so many South Asians so quickly. I wanted so badly to be invited to a Diwali party, but didn't know any very well.

How come Ananya looks SO much older than my own (almost) one year old? Is it the hair?
1:24 AM
SouthAsiaRocks said…
I know Ananya has sooo much hair and she is walking - so she seems so much older than Aashini even though Aash is older - it's so funny how kids develop so differently!
3:22 AM
Anthony and Sharon said…
I've loved all the recent posts! It looks like you guys are having such a great time in the states! I don't think we'll find as many of our folks in the states...but maybe we'll run into a couple! (There's a few less billion of our people than yours:)

Aashini looks right at home!!!
4:50 PM
Bethany Faith said…
I tagged you :)

Ashini is so adorable <3
6:48 PM
SouthAsiaRocks said…
Sharon!
I met two of your people yesterday - in two different places! :)
7:16 PM
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