Indian Married girl in America

Diwali in India is a metaphor to sweets and crackers. Here in US, I try my best to match Indian festivals and our customs to be followed as same as we do in India. But Diwali is an exceptional extraordinary festival, thus nothing can match the joy we share in India on Diwali. Diwali 2017 What is Diwali in India? Wake up with crackers alarm, Oil bath, New dress, Hot and spicy non veg breakfast, TV shows especially patti mandram(debate show),  crackers, sharing Diwali greetings and wishes in texts and phone calls, again variety of non veg food for lunch, new movies, crackers and a SOUND sleep with all these memories.  Diwali does not end up in one day, now the auspicious mode turned on the second day, we call it Gowri Nonbu. This is a traditional pooja, when Kalasam will be decorated as Goddess Gowri Amman, homemade adhirasam will be devoted to her, yellow twines will be kept in that pooja, which later will be distributed within family members. This pooja has to be ...

Summer vacation 2017, we took a break on our routine and went on a 4 days bus tour with two kids. Experience on travelling with kids itself requires a different post. So I made it seperate -  Travel experience . Here, I pen down (ha ha type down) about the views of the places through my eyes. Day 1 It was a four days long tour, finalized through take tours. But the service provider was America Asia. We started on saturday morning (16th sep) from home to China town in Uber. From there, a tour bus picked us up to Montrey. From there, we changed to the actual tour bus that take us to the trip. The AC tour bus is cool and had wide windows to see all the beauties on our travel. We started from there around 10 o'clock, took a couple of rest room breaks and a lunch break near a mall and were taken to one of the sight seeing places in tour plan, LONDON BRIDGE ,  Guide gave us a brief note on the place that the bridge was shipped from London to it's current place, thus...