Another Wedding Reception

First of all, shout-out to my dad. Happy Birthday!!!! You’re one step closer to getting that senior citizen discount, haha

To celebrate his birthday, we went to a wedding reception. (Okay, so there is absolutely no correlation there. But whatever. We ate a great dinner, and then we Skyped home to tell them all about the different food items we ate. Actually, I think on any occasion, more than half of our Skype time is spent discussing either what we ate or why my dad’s cucumber plants won’t grow any cucumbers.)

Anyway, a relation of a family we know in the US – and my mother has known since she was a little baby – just got married, so that family came to Bangalore for the wedding reception.

Last night, there was a dinner for close family and friends at my cousin’s house. (Okay, technically, I think our grandfathers are cousins. But I have no idea what that makes us. Anyway, it was a lot of fun. I’ve always liked Tanvi, and while everyone else was eating food and congratulating the newlyweds, we spent the night geeking out over different books and watching Harry Potter. I finally found another HP fan here!)

Tonight was the actual wedding reception.

A month ago, I spent a weekend surrounded by relations of my dad. Tonight, I was introduced to a bajillion people who knew my grandfather and mother. I actually don’t know that many people from my mom’s side of the family, so it was nice to see all of them in one place.

It was also nice to eat lots of great, classic South Indian food.

(I’m starting to think I can’t go a blog post without somehow mentioning food. My love-affair with food has reached incredible heights this summer.)

Sidenote: At the reception, I met someone who is going to start her Masters at Tech! What a ridiculously small world this is!

-July 17th