What an awesome day to spend with the family, before heading off to Mumbai to catch my flight to USA, which was starting to become a home now.
To start off the day, I didn’t know what my family had planned to spend my last day with them. I had my flight scheduled at 1 AM on December 28th, so I knew they were treasuring the last day with me and trying to spend it as best as they could.
The day started off with some lovely breakfast and my favorite parathas – Methi Paratha. I crave for those whenever I visit India and can’t get enough of those. Being an ardent fan of the non vegetarian food, my parents found it surprising enough that I like Methi Paratha so much. Gosh, just writing about them is making me drool. I will stop here!
Ok, the exploration started off with everyone of us getting in my uncle’s WagnonR. We are a big family, so it was impossible for everyone to fit in that small car, so a couple of us had to stay back. I felt bad that my aunt and a cousin had to stay back and they would miss all the fun, but couldn’t do anything about it.
I always like hanging out with family, but at the same time, I don’t like visiting temples! Man, when we went out, I didn’t know we were going to visit so many temples in a single day. I mean, who needs to see so many temples and why do we need to do that? But, as a nice family guy, I kept my mouth shut and just visited one temple from another.
I must admit I was lazy and just done with visiting all the temples and just wanted to go home and have some relaxed time, but I didn’t want to say that to respect feelings of my family and parents.
The temples along with the long wait lines added fuel to the fire and I mean that literally. Even though it was winter in India, it was hot and I had to keep some napkins handy to wipe off the dust and sweat off my face and body. The only thing keeping me sane was that I was getting enough time to chat with my sisters and cousins. Those little moments were enough to poke fun at each other and at the same time (I know I might sound bad for doing this) making fun of the Gods and temples. I was careful enough not to blurt out these things before my parents or uncle or any deity for that matter. But, I must say, I had fun hanging out with my sisters and cousins.
While hanging out with family (particularly my sisters and cousins), I didn’t even realize the time. I wanted to get back home by 4-5 PM to give me enough time to pack a few last minute items, bid a proper goodbye, and then leave for the Mumbai Airport.
What I didn’t know was that the entire family wanted to come to the airport to see me off. The day full of surprises wasn’t getting over, I guess.
But I will talk more about it in the next post.
Next stop – Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
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