We arrive at Seattle after about a 10 hour journey!!! East se West aana koi khel nahin hai bhaya ……
Joydeep is there to welcome us. As we drive towards his home, our tiredness just disappears, with the visual delight of the Fall colours!! The terrain here is so different, as is the foliage …. A city which is surrounded by mountains ….
If the fall colours were just starting to show up in the east coast, they are in their full force in Seattle. A display of shades of green, pink, orange, maroon,yellow, brown …. Kya kahen een rangon ke barre main ….. this is definitely going to be one of my favourite cities in Amrika!!!
How does anyone ever get a complete fill of this Magic created by Mother Earth??? How do I capture all these colours …. I just hope the camera can do justice to the pictures that I take!!!
Saturday we take a break & talk about our trip so far, Sunday sure has loads that is waiting to happen!!!
Begins with apna road side walla yummy Bun Omelette, made by Joydeep. Poha made by Madhu for Mom. After breakfast we are whisked to a Sunday school, alled Gurukul, which teaches Hindi to kid’s including giving them a complete dekho & awareness about the Indian art & culture. Joydeep is one of their voluntary teacher’s &it is absolutely delightful to watch him teach these 5 year olds & his interaction with them & the enthusiasm of the kids!!! The million dollar one …. When he told the kids the “Kutta … bhow bhow karta hai” … and then immediately changed it to “ amerika main Kutta … Ruff Ruff karta hai!!!” ;-)
We are also a part of their cultural dekho of the week … & will surprises ever cease … it is a demonstration of Odissi dance by 2 young girls, who were students of Gurukul!!! We the Oriya’s manage to get the dance form to Gurukul the minute we step into Seattle!!! Ahem!!!
A drive though the campus of Microsoft (since both Joydeep & Madhu work there) , it is lunch at a place called … Tu Kassa ( a maharashtrian place???) ?? ….. nah .. kidding .. it’s called Tu Casa … mexican!!! We eat some very good & totally Cheesy food (agar diet kar rahe ho toh .. beta vat lagegi!!)… & their signature Margarita!! And to make matters really interesting, the kids, Arjun & Aniket order Salad!!!! Uffffffff … ye aaj kaal ke bachhe!!!
The day ends with Joydeep cooking some amazing Indian Chinese…. This boy sure has become a tres good Chef & a good cocktail mixer too .. coz he manages a pretty good Mojito!!
Highlight… When we were checking our baggage, we had an excess of about 2 kgs in one bag & we were asked to transfer some stuff from this bag to the other which was below the limit. Since it was just 2 kgs, asked the chap if it was ok if we didn’t transfer( too much effort of removing stuff from one bag & putting it in another!!) , since we were out of the country for 5 months & we should be allowed a little leeway … The look on his face was a Beauty … his Jaws nearly dropped … asked me, if he had heard correct … that we were out for 5 months … it’s a miracle that he still managed to send out luggage to the right place … coz, he kept mumbling that he had heard about 5 days or 15 days … max one month … but … 5 months …. That was just not happening …. & just had to ask me … how I had managed to take so much time off!!!! He he he
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