Trip to Peoria
I went to Peoria, IL this weekend to Amogh’s 2nd Birthday party. I missed his First birthday last year and didn’t want miss it this year for anything on the earth! He is as cute as a button and a very smart and sharp little boy, one of my dearest friends, Shailu’s son. I haven’t met her in like 5 years except for a few min meet up in the Minneapolis airport during one of my flight transits some 2 years ago.
It was a total hit. The 3 days trip just flew by. The night I landed, Friday, I had a blast cooking guthi vankaya, veg biryani and other mouthwatering dishes on menu for the party for 40 people. I was amazed by my ability to cook Guthi Vankaya Koora, so much quantity, so delicious. We cooked and decorated and talked and talked and mused over good old college days
The next morning on Saturday, Shailu, I and her other friends did some more cooking (chana masala, jeera rice, egg masala) and decorating of all the living room with (blue, white and yellow) balloons. Shailu saw the movie “Jalsa” recently and saw a similar combination of balloon decoration in the movie! Then cake cutting, gifts, kids playing! Nope screaming, yelling, running around and then we all played dumb sharads for 3 hrs. I thought we ran out of movie names. hehe :D it was fun, fun, fun.
We went on a beautiful drive to a park between two mountains on Sunday morning and I lazied around while Shailu played cricket. Yes cricket! With the rest of the family and friends who came over.
Monday we spent all day talking and reminiscing and playing with Amogh before I got on to my return flight to SJ. I felt as if stayed there for so long, that I missed them so much while returning
Amogh is such a sweetheart. He is a handsome and very intelligent boy for his age. His Observation skill and Grasp are amazing. He would repeat any word we said, recognize patterns colors, recite poems, sing a telugu song, recognize people by names, remember types of food (noodles, carrots, chocolates, candy, chips, rice, juice, milk etc) and above all recognize any and every emotion of his mom and dad. He would know when anyone was talking about him. All at the tender age of 2, he’s got such charming smile. Adorable! by the way his fascination about Thomas, the tank engine (animated character) amazed me. he just loves it so much. He did do anything for some play time with Thomas :)... sweeet.
It is a small world. Guess what, I met my junior in bachelors college and my roomie during my Masters, Pranee was in the same town working for the same firm as Shailu's husband. I got to meet her too. she was there for Amogh's birthday. once again dug out and relished some more engg college/hostel memories.
Been ages since I got on to a flight and got out of California, until I made a trip to this little town (hardly 3 mile radius) in Illinois to visit Shailu and her son Amogh and this will be one of most endearing and memorable trips made.
It was a total hit. The 3 days trip just flew by. The night I landed, Friday, I had a blast cooking guthi vankaya, veg biryani and other mouthwatering dishes on menu for the party for 40 people. I was amazed by my ability to cook Guthi Vankaya Koora, so much quantity, so delicious. We cooked and decorated and talked and talked and mused over good old college days
The next morning on Saturday, Shailu, I and her other friends did some more cooking (chana masala, jeera rice, egg masala) and decorating of all the living room with (blue, white and yellow) balloons. Shailu saw the movie “Jalsa” recently and saw a similar combination of balloon decoration in the movie! Then cake cutting, gifts, kids playing! Nope screaming, yelling, running around and then we all played dumb sharads for 3 hrs. I thought we ran out of movie names. hehe :D it was fun, fun, fun.
We went on a beautiful drive to a park between two mountains on Sunday morning and I lazied around while Shailu played cricket. Yes cricket! With the rest of the family and friends who came over.
Monday we spent all day talking and reminiscing and playing with Amogh before I got on to my return flight to SJ. I felt as if stayed there for so long, that I missed them so much while returning
Amogh is such a sweetheart. He is a handsome and very intelligent boy for his age. His Observation skill and Grasp are amazing. He would repeat any word we said, recognize patterns colors, recite poems, sing a telugu song, recognize people by names, remember types of food (noodles, carrots, chocolates, candy, chips, rice, juice, milk etc) and above all recognize any and every emotion of his mom and dad. He would know when anyone was talking about him. All at the tender age of 2, he’s got such charming smile. Adorable! by the way his fascination about Thomas, the tank engine (animated character) amazed me. he just loves it so much. He did do anything for some play time with Thomas :)... sweeet.
It is a small world. Guess what, I met my junior in bachelors college and my roomie during my Masters, Pranee was in the same town working for the same firm as Shailu's husband. I got to meet her too. she was there for Amogh's birthday. once again dug out and relished some more engg college/hostel memories.
Been ages since I got on to a flight and got out of California, until I made a trip to this little town (hardly 3 mile radius) in Illinois to visit Shailu and her son Amogh and this will be one of most endearing and memorable trips made.
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yeah malli engg,days back vasta neenu chala happy
Keep up the good work raa