Busy Weekend
I had a fun, yet very tiring weekend. Friday night we ate lots of pasta! We've been on a chicken/fish and salad dinner every night routine for about 3 weeks now. So weekends we let ourselves deviate and Friday night seemed like the perfect time for pasta =) Then we went to eat ice cream in New Haven at this yummy little place called Ashley's. I think it's fun hanging out with Yale students and pretending I'm one of them haha.
Saturday morning we set out for the Sikh Day Parade in NYC. Now I went one year and vowed to never go again, but it was our nephew's first parade and we wanted to see him and our niece all dressed up. Oh, first, we stopped by hubby's new office to drop off some books and research. Wow is all I can say! He's on the 41st floor and his office has a view of Midtown, Central Park, some bridge, some cliff, some more water etc etc. Yea, I'm not good with names of places =) Anyways, it's absolutely gorgeous and a few steps up from the office at his last job that had no window. He's a spoiled man now.
Ok, so the parade was crazy and crowded as expected. I just love getting pushed by aunties. We attempted to take our niece to the playground area which was horrid. I don't understand how parents let their kids free in a place like that. There were over 100 kids on one small play set .. complete with 15 year olds pushing 5 year olds to get to the slide. My husband yelled at so many kids =) Oh, and I saw Waris again. That would be my third Waris sighting.
Then we stopped by a cousin's place in the city and got ready for a wedding reception that night in Jersey. We skipped the wedding for the parade =) The reception was a blast .. good music (for the most part), great place, good people .. what more do you need? Ok you need a lot more - food was good, centerpieces were amazing, bride and groom matched and looked very happy in love, etc. Their first dance song was the same as ours!!! I finalized our song only a week or two before the wedding (I'm a music fanatic). Anyways, it was this very unique punjabi love song that no one had ever heard and I figured no one would ever hear again. And they did the same song!!! Bastards. Haha, ok, my anger cooled down once I started doing bhangra. My entrance song at our engagement party was also extremely unique and then I started hearing it elsewhere. I am convinced that people have taken my choices (Dj's to be exact) and copied them elsewhere. Seriously, I hate it. But oh well, what are you gunna do. Lots of things have been copied from my wedding - including my sangeet books, without my permission.
Sunday we hung out with the niece and newphew and shopped at Target. What was supposed to take 15 minutes took over an hour and a half and $150 later we were out of there. Why does this always happen at Target! Damn that store.
Ok, back to work I go.
posted by sherni @ 10:09 AM
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Haha, I tried to copy Martha Stewart too but she was just too hardcore for me =)
For my sangeet (usually a Punjabi event where women get together and sing folk songs), I researched old songs and had my aunt translate some for me and typed them all out and created a book (with my best friend). It was one of my favorite wedding projects because I had never been to a wedding that had it.
We attempted to take our niece to the playground area which was horrid. I don't understand how parents let their kids free in a place like that. There were over 100 kids on one small play set .. complete with 15 year olds pushing 5 year olds to get to the slide.
Most of the time, it's not like that. My friends in the suburbs have small swings sets in their yards, if that, and their kids have nobody to play with since nobody bikes anywhere any more, and you have to arrange a play date. If they drive for 30 minutes, they can get to their one suburban park, but even then you have to coordinate since nobody goes. So often, the kids end up inside.
As a city kid, I spent far more time playing outside than my suburban friends did. In elementary school, I played for hours because the park was near by (and there was a lot across the street which I was in every day) and there were always children around.
I'd be afraid that if I raised kids in the burbs (hypothetical kids) they would never have the playing outside with other kids experiences that I had daily.
amn~ Yup there's henna involved. You can have the two separately but I think most people combine the sangeet and mehndi. Though it does suck when you can't clap along because you have mehndi on your hands =)
ennis ~ normally when I drive/walk by these parks in the city they're so tame - white kids, brown nannies, and the occasional mother. I should have taken pictures of the chaos at the playground during the parade. Hopefully I'll be raising my kids in the bay area where the houses are two feet apart so they'll have no choice but to play with the other kids on the street =) Oh, and the backyards will be 5x5 feet so again, no private swingsets =)
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