It was an early morning today. We'd got up at 5 and had gone through our chores to be out off the house and headed for Kochi by a quarter to 8. The drive was nice with far less traffic than usual, perhaps, because of the striking lorries! We could pay obeisance to the god at Kuthiraan - the protector of the motorists!
Navigating to the hall where the wedding was gonna take place was a fairly easy step as we got a clear picture from one of the relatives of Neethu. We did meet a whole lot of relatives from this end of the family tree and were thrilled to meet again after what has been a long time. The wedding was taking place in Narendran kochachan's daughter-in-law, Salini's family. Seeing Leela chittamma hobble around - thanks to her painful knees - made us sad and she seemed to be seriously weighing the option of replacement of her knees, when her son returns home on leave by September. I, too, agreed to the proposed surgery because I'm sure that she'd be better off than her existing state!
We'd taken care not to overeat though the pure vegetarian menu was simply great!!
We took leave of the marriage party by 2 and proceeded to our friends, Charly and Rani, who'd invited us to Easter lunch when they'd come to know that we're at Kochi today. A dash of vodka and a few spoonfuls of the exquisite menu were tucked in but the important thing was the great feeling of happiness of being with our old 'potluck gang' and our hosts had gone out of their way to look after us! Thanks, Rani, for making it possible!!
And after a delightful three hours there, we'd driven into my cousin's house. There was plenty of catching up to do and that's what we did during the 'yakkitiyak' that went on, non stop. There was a short visit to Meera's (another good friend) house, where some serious discussions of a topical nature had taken place. We've always loved being with the close knit Sidharth-Meera-Krishna-Vignesh family and after an hour and a half, were back home, discussing various things.
Tailpiece.
Tomorrow's gonna be a hectic day of appointments with two doctors. Hope Lekha's difficulties are put behind at the earliest!
Navigating to the hall where the wedding was gonna take place was a fairly easy step as we got a clear picture from one of the relatives of Neethu. We did meet a whole lot of relatives from this end of the family tree and were thrilled to meet again after what has been a long time. The wedding was taking place in Narendran kochachan's daughter-in-law, Salini's family. Seeing Leela chittamma hobble around - thanks to her painful knees - made us sad and she seemed to be seriously weighing the option of replacement of her knees, when her son returns home on leave by September. I, too, agreed to the proposed surgery because I'm sure that she'd be better off than her existing state!
We'd taken care not to overeat though the pure vegetarian menu was simply great!!
We took leave of the marriage party by 2 and proceeded to our friends, Charly and Rani, who'd invited us to Easter lunch when they'd come to know that we're at Kochi today. A dash of vodka and a few spoonfuls of the exquisite menu were tucked in but the important thing was the great feeling of happiness of being with our old 'potluck gang' and our hosts had gone out of their way to look after us! Thanks, Rani, for making it possible!!
And after a delightful three hours there, we'd driven into my cousin's house. There was plenty of catching up to do and that's what we did during the 'yakkitiyak' that went on, non stop. There was a short visit to Meera's (another good friend) house, where some serious discussions of a topical nature had taken place. We've always loved being with the close knit Sidharth-Meera-Krishna-Vignesh family and after an hour and a half, were back home, discussing various things.
Tailpiece.
Tomorrow's gonna be a hectic day of appointments with two doctors. Hope Lekha's difficulties are put behind at the earliest!
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