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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...

October 24th is a holiday here called Dusshera (or Dussehra - Click HERE to see older posts on Dusshera).  On this holiday, people will gather at parks, where huge statues of Ravana (the demon god) are burned at the end of the night.  It celebrates the triumph of good over evil.   Anyway, the other day we were on the metro and we saw where there were making a BUNCH of the statues and decided to jump out and check them out!    The girls thought it was so cool! :)  Aashini thought they were hilarious :)  They have so many that they are making, that they are using space all over the place to put the heads, bodies and arms :) haha!   It made me laugh to see the heads waiting at the bus stop with people next to it :) haha!  Aashini thought it was hilarious to be put up into his nose :) haha!!  Diya did NOT think it was funny :) haha!  Poor little girl... :) The big statues are made like paper mache'.   They ...

We went out of town week before last to Nepal. When we left, I left a few carrots on the kitchen counter.   It was pretty hot and dry before we left (now we're in Monsoon!)... and well, the carrots shriveled to nothing! It's pretty amazing how much they changed! I guess our house is pretty hot :) haha! Here they are next to a new fresh carrot so you can see how much they shrank! Awesome!

I Love Funny things :)  I'm sure I've said that a million times on this blog :) haha!  Anyway, here are a couple of  things I've seen lately :)   Adam grabbed this picture the other day... the boy's shirt says:  "World's Goodest Grandpa" haha!  At the water park the other day I saw this ride... it was like the Teacups at Disney... I think it was supposed to be called Cup and Saucer... but instead it is called:  "Cup & Soccer" :) haha! :)  I saw this graffiti at one of the metro stops the other day... I thought it lacked a little creativity... :) haha!

Last week we went with our friends to a local water park to have fun together and to beat the heat :)  It was a lot of fun :) This park was really fun.  I knew of a couple in this area, but didn't know about this one.  There were a lot of slides and it was fun! :) I took Aashini down one of the slides and she was really mad at me because I let her face get in the water :)   Adam and Vijay going down a slide together :) Diya and Vijay :)  This picture cracks me up :) This one too :) haha! This is the "kiddie" area of the park... it had 3 slides and was really fun :) We stopped halfway through and had some lunch :) We had a great view of the "Rain Dance" from our lunch table :) Eating Lunch :) They had extra entertainment there :)  There was a mime that was running around the park :)  Diya thought he was hilarious! :) Something different than America... In America what we call "Swimsuits", they call "S...

Sometimes I forget that I live in a city of millions... but then I get reminders when I'm... ... trying to get my phone fixed...  ... riding in the metro...  ... at the market...  ... riding the escalator....   ... sitting in traffic...  ... yeah... the metro station is always a reminder :) haha!  I love living in a city of millions... it's never boring :)