Autumn

Its my first hand experience of Autumn....

It was a great feeling to enjoy this season as it is neither hot nor cold.....as long as it remained dry and not raining it was great!

Trip to Scotland

Outside Edinburg Castle

We set off on a Sunday morning to Scotland.

Our destinations was Glenrothes.This is where we had booked our stay.

We drove to Derby to visit an artist friend and went on to drive till the hotel stopping for essential breaks for fuel and meals!

Day 1

We were all charged up and decided to go to Ben Nevis our first stop for the cable car ride.!

The cable car ride was enjoyable and the view was spectacular.

Our next stop was LOCH NESS

We did a cruise in the Loch Ness and saw the famous 13th century - Urquart Castle...

A personal view on Loch Ness....it was a lot hyped .We had expected more picturesque surroundings!
We had an excellent guide though and we enjoyed hearing the stories of Loch Ness Monster!

Day 2

The next day we went to Edinburgh Castle.
We walked around the streets of Edinburgh and great city with a lot of buzz.
We had a great Thai meal as all of us got tired of our old fish and chips!
We went to a weaving shop that sold a lot of Scottish made articles.

Day 3

We drove to Argyll hoping to go to a sea kingdom.
We ended up in the Oban and went around the town.
We ate great Indian food around Glenrothes.
Check out these links the food was awesome....the last thing you would expect to do in Scotland -have Indian buffets every evening!




Day 4
We went to a Safari Park and the girls had a great time watching the animals.

The sea lions show was outstanding!and was well worth the time and wait!
We visited the famous William Wallace monument and went to St Andrews - the home of Golf!St Andrews seemed a town we would have liked to spend more time but glad we did go there!

We had another fabulous Indian buffet at Red Fort - an Indian restaurant!
Day 5

We headed back home to London.
We started at 8 AM and was able to reach home by 6 inspite of delays on M25!

For more photos - Scotland October 2009 and a few more Scotland II

Encounter with Blogger - Artist!

It was one of my desires to see how Niall worked....I had started reading his blog and admiring his work after my friend Preeti had mentioned it....

I finally got to see him personally and his wonderful work at his home.
He was kind enough to show my daughters how he made his wonderful pictures!and we were very lucky to have been gifted one of his prints!


Hope you enjoy the small video clipping!

Pantomime

T sings very well and her desire at 9 years is that she wants to be an actress.

I have a philiosophy when it comes to such desires...try to give them an opportunity....and then they understand is it worth aspring for! Well you can't make her fly a fighter jet if her ambition is to be fighter jet pilot but you can show her movies or expose her to lives/stories of fighter pilots.

So when the church we attend announced for auditions we promptly took her and she got selected for a small role...

It was all fun and she enjoyed all the way.

Most of our Sundays for two months went in 4 to 6 hours of rehearsals and practise, that meant a stop to a lot of academic pursuits I would have liked her to do like preparing for her 11+ entrance exams etc.

The show was fantastic and all those who attended loved it.....

Well, at the end of it T also realised "acting" is not her cup of tea and she rather stick to her singing!

Here is a few photos and a videos



T is in green and yellow in the photo!

This was the finale for the last show ( they had 4 shows!)


T is the slitheryslime in the middle of the three!




I am happy she realised it herself and chose to focus on her singing than acting!

First Day of School!

The two girls finally get to go to the same school!

Thats T's 6th school in the 4th country and R's 5th in the 3rd country!