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I am back!
September 27, 2006 by
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After a short and sweet vacation I am back..It was fun and yet I missed blogging, but managed to read a few blogs every once in a while. In a time span of three week, we managed to squeeze in an much as possible.
So here goes the places I visited, 1st to Chennai @ my inlaws, Salem to visit my parents, Dharmapuri to be with my sister, Hogennakal (beautiful waterfalls),Yercaud (hill station close to Salem), Mangalore, Subramanya ( visit to a temple) and back to Chennai again!
At Chennai, I was blessed to be a part of my FIL’s 80th borthday celebrations. The religious custom is called Sathaabhishekam and it was fun, met with family and ate proper wedding food on a plantain leaf (it all comes back to food eh?) My FIL is a super sport, after the religious rituals were over, we had made a video of all the pictures of my inlaws (rajesh scanned every picture,he could lay his hands on) and then the fun part began, All his children decided to sing songs and my FIL picked up the mike first and surprised us by singing a song and he dedicated it to my MIL, it was sooo touching and then ofcourse we all sang, including my mom and other family members
Another highlight was that I spoke to Shanti, a fellow blogger and now friend. It was fun talking to her
At Salem, Rajesh & I visited the orphanage and were suprised to see how some of the kids had grown in 1.5 years. One of them jumped on to my mom’s lap (she knows my mom well)and started reciting all the nursery rhymes she knows and another kid, who we saw as a baby started chatting with me. It was really nice to see that they are all so well taken care of and smiling. We handed over all the checks that you were kind enough to send to us. After a cup of tea with them and after finding more of what they do we left back home with a heavy heart how their parents had the heart to leave these children in trash can and bus stands?
On the lighter side, I ate like a pig and gained a few pounds,shopped a little and spent quality time with our folks. More anecdotes a little later…c ya .
At Subramanya, near Managlore.
At Hogennakal Waterfalls, near Dharmapuri
An Aerial view of Salem from Yercaud.
My food loot from India!!!!
Me first..welcome back.beautiful pics and glad you are back safe and had a lot of fun. That loot from India is tempting.
Good to see you back.
Welcome back! Nice to hear that you had a superb time!
But you do make me feel very very homesick with your post!!
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Hi Shankari,
Welcome back.. Nice to read abt ur India Trip.Iam from chennai too. Iam planning to visit next month.. looking forward to it..
Glad that you enjoyed ..
Welcome back Shankari. Looks like you had a great time. Pics look really good.
Welcome back…nice to see u back
Welcome back. Glad 2 note that u’d a good time. Nice pics.
WB!! Good to know u had fun and the pic of loot is tempting thou’.
Welcome back…though vacation was short looks like you guys had lot of fun….wonderful pictures…thinking about Hogennakal fresh catch fish fry made me nostalgic
Welcome back!! What fun you had in India!! All those food and family!! Shall I look forward to down home recipes then??
Welcome back! Looks like you had fun. All the photographs are nice. I’ve never been to Hokenakkal…looks like its a beautiful place.!
Who wouldn’t loot from India …our beloved food.!!
How are the restaurants? Did you like anything specific?
nice blog, yummy food and nice snaps shankari
Hi Shankari, I really enjoyed reading this post — and your photos are fabulous — especially all the kids and the waterfall — all lovely. Thanks for sharing
Welcome back !!! A trip back to india is alllll that we want once a while !!
Glad to see you back Sankari. Wow, what a fun time that you had !
The waterfall picture is gorgeous….I recently came across your blog and have enjoyed reading it…
Cheers from Canada
Trupti
Hi shankari,Nice to see you back on the scene…:)
Sure sounds like you had loads of fun Shankari! Especially all getting together for Sadabhishekam. Hoggenakkal looksbeautiful, I’ve been to Yercaud- its lovely!
Hope see you posting more stuff now that you’re back…
Welcome back!! You seemed to have covered a lot of places in 3 weeks. The picture look awesome!! Hope it was not raining in Mangalore.
Hi Shankari,
Welcome back
What gorgeous snaps….glad you had a wonderful time
hi shankari that was so sweet of u to mention mee : )
ate like pig ?! big confession ; )
very happy to see u and rajesh in the pic