Atlanta...

Haven't been able to post regularly. It's quite hectic and i won't blame it on india trip. I haven't even started shopping yet. So, i dont know where the time is going. As the kids are growing they are getting to be more demanding.

On our wedding anniversary, I sang january february and aj completed the rest of the months. Ofcourse he could not say some of the months properly. Like for October he says something that starts with Oc. :) But, good job aj.

Now an update on our Atlanta trip. We left of friday and the drive was not all that great because it was too foggy. Kids were okay, so we were enjoying some music (ellam kids music dhaan!!) and all of a sudden Ashu started crying. We were just 5 minutes away from the hotel. Asked him why he was crying and he said 'it feels like i have been sitting in the car for 16 hours!' . I didnt know whether to laugh or cry :)

He was happy the next day though. He always has a soft corner for Atlanta. So do i. My appa used to always ask us to move to Atlanta for good coz he loved Atlanta too. We got up late as we had reached Atlanta quite late the previous night and then we decided to leave for lunch. I picked Saravana bhavan. Naaka thonga pottundu pona, everything had garlic in it..Yuck :(
Looks like the management has changed. First of all, they made us wait for 1 hour and aj adhukkula ennai kuthuyirum kolaiuyiruma aakirundhaan, atleast food-aanum yummy-a irukkumnu paatha..nondhu noodle-a poitten :( The funny part was, we had ordered idli for aj and when the idly came (finally), aj gave one look at the plate and started crying. Crying-na literally kadhari kadhari azhugai. Apram somehow we managed to feed him. Oru vazhiya velila vandhapram, B said he will take us to Macys for shopping..Appodhan konjam gift-kaana ariguriye therinjudhu ;-) But, suddenly he detoured and took me to the indian jewellery store. I was really surprised because till then he was harassing me by talking as if 10th anniversary was no big deal. So, i had no hopes for any gift :-) He got me diamond earrings and pendant set.

From there we went to the Balaji temple, the temple that appa wanted to visit, but we couldn't go there at the time. It was nice. After coming back to cookeville, someone told me that there was a Lord Shiva temple adjacent to it and we didn't know about it. Next time.

We went to Daddy's school on Sunday. Ashu loved it. He was so excited and awestruck to see how BIG the school is!! Me too. I am also glad that nobody can say that 'naan mazhaikku kooda college pakkam odhungala u.s.lanu'. I have proof, u see :) Aj had this naughty grin in his face through out our stay in the school. Donno what he was thinking :-) Dude was upto something!!
They had vending machine full of juice, cold coffee etc..Little dude style-a poi oru juice bottle eduthundudhu. The school was really awesome. Enga Sarada Vidyalaya alavukku illanaalum nanna dhaan irukku..okay okay manasatchi kuthiduthu. School was beautiful. Anga poittu vandhadhe perumaya irukku. Again playing it safe..yaarum enna anga padikka sollida koodadhu illa?

Mazhaikku odhingunadhunaalayo ennavo, i was more attracted by the break room than anything else. Break room was awesome with two BIG screen t.vs! :) Super-o super. One thing that made my jaws drop to the floor was they had a bar in the break room and all the alcoholic drinks were free too. Konjam over-a illai. But, good thing is i heard nobody takes it as they can't afford to goto sleep with back to back assignments. So, some sadistic guy must've designed this break room. Ellarayum seendi vittu paakaran :)

Oh, last but not the least, on our way back we went to a new restaurent called Madras Chettinad. Awesome food. Even Ashu said it was good, which is very rare u see. Over all, the unplanned Atlanta trip was good :-)