India and More

Good morning everyone!
Hope you are all having a good day right now.  We had a pretty good day also.  Mommy went to Dorabjees to get some groceries (which were much needed.)  Sam and I stayed home to do some of our school work.  It was a bit sad for mommy after she was listening to a song by Amy Grant; Third World Woman and looked out the window and saw the exact thing she was singing about...

Here's the song so you can listen to it.  If you were here you would see the exact same things out of your window. 



Sam and I are planning an Easter event for a few of the kids here a the hotel and the apartments across the street.  We are going to have little clues, oopps, I can't write this down right now, because most of the people that are attending read my blog and we don't want them to know what the clues are, right?

This Saturday Daddy is returning and we are going to go pick him up in Mumbai (Bombai) and what a surprise (not really) that Rene is returning on that same day at the same time.  So we are going with Leigh and Benjamin to pick up our Dad, Papa, and lost husbands.  So that will be fun,  we are going to look around Mumbai (Bombai) and see what we can find.  We are probably going to go to a Market that sells all sorts of things.  Not just Fru and Veg. 

Have you ever read The Wheel On The School? I am in the middle of reading it right now.  It is quite good and you really get into it.  You also REALLY REALLY need to read Mrs. Frisby and The Rats of Nimh.  This is an AWESOME book.  You really need to read it.  Seriously.

There's this cool idea of when you think of something you don't want to forget, you put it in a jar and you'll have that memory always. This idea was passed on to you,which was passed on to me by Leigh.  Mommy and Leigh have been getting lots of cool ideas of of pintrest.

Lets see, what else did we do today?  Ahhh, Lena is getting very big everyday. She is a lot longer and is trying to hold her head.  She is very cute...

Well, I got to hustle. This is a word that is now commonly used at the tennis court by Mommy and Leigh.
Got to hustle.
Have a great day.

My Hair Cut and Missing GM...

Hi,
My hair-cut is awesome!  I really like it.  Here are a few pics of me after I cut it!

 You can kinda see the camel behind is if you look carefully!

 This is the ponytail they cut of.  GROSS...

I think it's very nice!  

As you notice my title: My Hair Cut and Missing GM: you might wonder, who's the GM? Or how did he go missing?  So this might disappointed you a bit, since he didn't exactly go missing he just was here one day and gone the next.  Not quite.  Here's the story,  on Friday morning after tennis we went down to breakfast and ate with Edna and Andrew (another lady that plays tennis and her son) and Leigh joined us after a bit.  Then Edna left and just us and Leigh were there.  Vemel (Andria's mom) came over and sat down,  she told us that the GM which stands for General Manager (A General Manager is responsible for higher level planning than a manager. A General Manager is often responsible for the overall strategic planning and direction of the company or organization and leaves the day-to-day management of the various functions to the managers.)  and told us that he had been fired dew to some mistake he had made.  Some big mistake it must have been.  After breakfast we walked to our annex and saw that there was a luggage cart in front of the GM's room.  Pretty weird, right?  We went up to the room and then Sam and I took Theo out potty and saw Neha (the GM's daughter) standing right by the door after we saw the GM, he's wife and little boy (Anch) get into the elevator with a bunch of stuff.  We asked Neha what was happening and she said that her dad had quit.  So, we don't know exactly what happened , but we do know that he left and now there is new General Manager. (which we have not met yet.)  That was pretty exciting!  Fun right, a little mystery to make life more exciting, like it needs it right now.  But, it's always fun to have more surprises!

Bye,

Five things!

To start of with, I posted my sequel to Texas Mystery on my other blog www.mystories-mak-school.blogspot.com.  It's is pretty exciting and Rene is in it so he is pretty excited about that.

Secondly, I got my hair cut today!  It's sort a like a pixie cut, but a little longer!   I would post a pic, but Sam and I are watching Benjamin right now and I have no pics.  I will post a pic tomorrow.

Third, I am a bit jealous of daddy who is in the USA right now!  Though I am glad to be here with our friends. 

Fourth, poor little Benjamin is a little sick.  He had a fever for about two days and now he is just coughing a little bit.  Poor sweeetie ):

Fifth, yesterday the hotel had another kidz program this Friday afternoon.  I helped Nora with her project (a picture frame, it was a flower) and she put the paint brush in her mouth, the little stinker!  Then she tried to eat the little beads.  After that I went and then got her some french fries and ketchup.  It was quite funny,  after she had it with ketchup about three times, she would not eat the french fries without it.  She would get to much ketchup, make a face and then not like french fries for about 3 to 5 minutes and then be perfectly fine!  She is such a dolly!!!!!!!!!!

That's about it for today!
MaKaela :)

Sari Draping

Hi,
Yesterday, as you have probably heard on Sam's blog www.unordinarylife-sam.blogspot.com
that the sari drapping was very fun!  I got to try it on and that was awesome!  Mommy and Leigh looked Mui Bonito! 

 Very Beautiful!!!

Mui Bonito!

 We tried to take a pic with Benjamin, but it didn't work!

 This is Kumal's mom, a little girl adopted from here about 2 weeks ago!

 Leigh was trying to do it herself!  She did a pretty good job!

Benjamin did agree to sit with me!

Have a great weekend!  Mak :)

School Performance-thekidz

Hi,
Today we went to Benjamin's school performance.  Maggie, Julian, Sebastian, Uri, a little girl that I know, but I don't remember her name, and one more little girl, i'm not sure what her name is.  It was very fun.  They did a play about the farmer and the big turnip.  You've probably heard about it or read it before.  They changed it a little bit, but it was mostly the same.  Benjamin was a scarecrow, Sebastian was a scarecrow, Maggie was a gardener, Julian was a pumpkin, Uri was a pig, and the other 2 little girls was a fairy and a cow!  It was quite fun!
When I get the pictures, I will post them! They are all so adorable! 
Later today, the hotel is having a sari drapping!  We are going to go see it.
I will try to take pics!

My encounter with the tree...

Hi,
We haven't seen the elephant around here for a while, but the day before yesterday we saw another camel on the street.
We also found some of the brooms that make a scratchy sound.  It's a good remembrance of India.  If you'd like on, just let me know;  you can either post a comment or e-mail me at  animalcrazy@6expats.onmicrosoft.com



They either look like this...

Or that...

Yesterday, we went to meet Daddy for lunch in Magrapata where he works.
We went to a place called Yummy Tummy, a funny name.  There, Sam and I ordered pizza and Mom and Dad had Indian food.  After we ate we got some ice cream!  Sam had walnut coffee and brownie ice cream and I had vanilla and pistachio!  It may sound a little weird, but it is actually really good!
After that we went to the Magrapata City Park and walked around there a little bit!  Have you ever seen a tree in the middle of a side walk?

It look a little like this except its root are showing and they're in the middle of the sidewalk with only about a foot on each side, sometimes less.  Well, yesterday I was looking in another direction and walked right into a tree!  Really, I'm serious...  I scraped my knees and bruised my head a bit! It looked like I was hugging the tree!   It was very funny!  I have never encountered a tree in the sidewalk before we came to India!  Also, the park was filled withe business men and woman walking around and surprisingly (not really) there were people sleeping on the grass and under the trees, not poor people, business men!  We all got a kick out of that!

Bye for now!

Crazy Day in India...

Hello,
Yesterday was quite an adventure.  Mom, Me and Sam planned to take a trip to MG road to get some souvenirs and gifts for people. Mom and Leigh had gone before, but had not seen so many beggars as we did this time.  We stopped at a scarf stand to look at the scarfs, found some nice ones and started to buy them.  Then 3 beggar kids come up about Mine and Sam's age asking for money.  We gave them some fruit snacks and then turn back to the scarfs.  Along with the little beggar kids, these guys that sell drums come up and start bartering with me.  I asked him 100 rupees and he said 450 rupees.  We bartered down to 230, he gives it to me and then when I'm holing it he says 250.  So he was obviously cheating me, but oh well.   Then the beggar kids kept touching mommy and asking for money.  The boy had some really loud snaping things that popped my ear. We left very quickly and went the other way.  We saw there to our left a Husband, Wife, and Daughter sitting on the ground.  Then we went to the edge of the street and saw an old lady who looked very sickly, laying on the curb with a baby.  That was a little much, so we decided to walk on the street.  It may be busier on the street, but there are no beggars.  They all know that people with money walk on sidewalks and that why they stay there.  We found a store that was pretty nice and we spent the rest of our time there.  We got some nice things.  Then to kick that of Mommy's phone died so we couldn't call the driver.  We walked up and down and up the street looking him, but still coudn't find him (it wasn't Santoash),  So we just caught a rickshaw and took that home.
It was quite an exciting day!
M












                                     
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