My first visit to Chennai

I was travelling for the past three days visiting Chennai & Bangalore. While I have visited Bangalore twice before, it was my first visit to Chennai.
The first thing that I noticed about Chennai was how beautiful the women looked with bright coloured sarees & lots of flowers in their hair. The men with their stark whites & tilaks on foreheads looked so traditional. I found the people very soft spoken. My cabbie tried his best to converse in Hindi. With his heavy accent I had to concentrate very hard to understand.
By the time I reached work, it was time for lunch which we enjoyed in a "Karaikudi" restaurant. It was a great meal of Chettinad & Roast chicken, chicken biryani, parathas & curd.Water was served in "Lotas" instead of the regular glasses. I loved the whole traditional flavour of the place.
After a hard day's work, we went to the Marina Beach. It was a long walk from the car park to the water front & I had a tough time in my sandals & work formals.But,it was so pleasant to see how clean a city beach could be. I was expecting something like the Mumbai beaches. I was so pleased to know that I could actually go into the water & soak my feet. We spent a couple of hours there & also enjoyed corn on the cob at the beach.
I also got to spend a day at Bangalore. The city is in full bloom these days & is awash with purples & lilacs. I had lunch at MTR & also managed a 15 minute visit to the "Cauvery" store.
I am back now tired & exhausted but happy at the little experiences I had. :)

How I wish.......

that I could be a child again & lay naked under a tap in the sun on a hot afternoon!!

That's Ansh enjoying his Saturday afternoon. :)

We had a fun weekend. My bro & bhabhi were with us on Saturday on their way to Pune from Bhutan. I was planning to go to work for a few hours but I was a bad girl & called in sick. We lazed around played with Ansh & chatted the entire afternoon.
In the evening we all went to attend a birthday party of Jalan's daughter. I was so happy to see Gaurav & Swati so comfortable amongst our friends. We then took them around city centre. I bought a couple of suits for Swati after a lot of resistance from her. We then had a lovely dinner at pizza hut .They left early morning on Sunday.
Sunday I did my facial at home. I had bought a VLCC facial kit & it was pretty easy to do. Then in the afternoon we went to see "Fashion". I quite liked the movie. Worth a watch.
Oh & on Friday my bhabhi in Singapore lost her job & was very upset. Really feeling bad for her :(

Aa Gaya Noddy!!

This Sunday, there was a Noddy Show in town in Science City Auditorium & how could we miss it. Noddy is one of Ansh's favourites. The show was at 2 & luckily Ansh's cousin Armaan and his bua Ambika was also going. So we teamed up & went together.Armaan is 4 months older than Ansh & they bond very well. They were in the same Montessori which helps. :)

Ansh was very excited about the show & even carried his "Rakhi" Noddy with him & kept asking me "Kya Noddy Zinda Hoga". I know, wrong choice of words, but he could not believe that he would see Noddy in flesh & blood. :)

The show was great. Money's worth. Yes, tickets were expensive (Rs500each), but we did not regret it at the end of it. During the show, there was a lot of interaction with kids. So kids had to jump , clap sway, do a chicken dance etc. It was a whole lot of fun.

There were stalls selling all kinds of Noddy goodies. We got the kids Noddy T-shirts in which they looked really cute. They posed in Noddy's car & got themselves Noddy Tattoos.

They were famished after the show & enjoyed their popcorn & pepsi.

Thereafter we went around the Science City. I had not brought Ansh here ever, so I wanted to take him around. Abhi of course was being lazy & wanted to go home for his Sunday siesta. But then he agreed & in fact enjoyed himself. I could see him getting emotional seeing how much fun Ansh & Armaan were having at the park.

So we rode the cable car, went on a monorail cycle, took a toy train ride & did a lot of running around.Cable car was really fun. The boys felt like birds flying the sky.

The monorail cycle had the boys in splits coz Abhi was banging their car with ours & that was so much fun for them.

The toy train ride was the last ride & by then the boys were tired. Ansh & Armaan are great together. I wish we can get them together more often. The last picture summarises the fun we had.

Ansh was still not satisfied & kept saying that he wanted to go to Nicco Park also. Phew, are these kids never satisfied? So after a fun day we went home with an unhappy toddler who wanted to have more!

A great day spent nonetheless.

Thanks Noddy!!