Shalini's Sewing Space

London Day Zero We started our journey on October 10, 2008. Flight landed in London at 3PM on the 11th. We checked into the hotel and got a room that smelled of something . We felt the smell throughout the hotel but it was especially worse in this room. After 30 minutes we couldn't get used to the smell, and came down to the reception hall and found someone to talk about this. They changed our room and while talking we found out the hotel used to be open to smokers. We saw 'No Smoking' signs everywhere but that was fairly recent. They had made the hotel non-smoking but had not changed the carpeting anywhere. They were going to do so. The other room was better although in the hallways, the smell was present. We got used to it eventually. We were near the High Street Kensington Metro station (London Metro=Tube), which is on circle (Yellow) line. The circle line goes in the center of London and touches all the major sightseeing in London. London Tube Map here Since it was eve...

I'm back Just a quick post to say I'm back, if you haven't read it on The Wagon. We reached on Sunday, and I started work on Tuesday. Mehul has some serious Jet-lag. He woke up at 2:30AM on Monday night and 3:15 last night. He is having a bit of trouble adjusting to the school as well. They started transitioning him to the next class today. I hope he adjusts well as he always has a bit of trouble in the beginning. Here are a few of my favorite shots of London. Big Ben/London Eye London Eye at night St. James Park

Posting from India London was fabulous. Pictures coming soon. We reached Delhi on the 16th. Yesterday, I got henna done for Karwa chouth fast. After washing off, the color isn't as dark as I usually get because I had to remove it earlier. Here are the pictures while it was drying.

We're off in about 20 minutes I just wanted to quickly post before leaving. I'll miss you all!! See you when I get back!

Time to pack! Sorry for staying absent for all this time. We're leaving for vacation in 3 days (Friday). There is a stop-over in London for 5 nights and then we'll reach Delhi on the 16th night. 17th is Karwachowth so I get to keep a fast the first day I'm there. Bummer. On the bright side, Mehul turned FOUR!! His birthday was past Saturday. We usually celebrate at the daycare and have a separate party at home with friends. This time because of the vacation, we decided to not do the GTG. One of Mehul's class-mate, A, was born on the same day as Mehul, attends the same daycare since he started, and was born in the SAME HOSPITAL!! They had invited us over for A's birthday, and Mehul and A cut the cake together (it was a princess cake LOL) Too funny. Anyhow, there will be a celebration in Delhi with my and DH's family which sounds much better than anything we'd have done here :) We did cut a cake at the daycare too, and another smaller one at home. Yep, I'v...

Thanks! Thanks to Erin, Christine & Sue. Sue, I don't have your email address so I couldn't email you back personally, but thank you. I have been thinking a lot and have come to the conclusion of limiting my exposure to these two. I was already doing that but now that I've talked to DH and written this here and talked to you, it is kind of final. I still go out in the neighborhood but far less now because it's getting colder and well, we're busy! Vacation is coming up and we've been shopping after work most nights. I think I need to treat them like just neighbors, rather than friends. And that's fine. Thinking back I have realized that I have *never* been talked to like this, and treated like this. Never. Not even in high school. Guess I chose my friends carefully back then! I have always believed that deep down, people are nice. Regardless of the drama with these two, I will continue to believe that. And yes, I'll continue looking for friends :) tho...

Redecorating There's redecorating going on at home as well as at the blog. I was tired of the pink blog. Red is my current favorite so I decided on this theme. There are good and bad points about this template. The good first - 1. Check out the sidebar. It is AJAX enabled. Cool! 2. I made all the images. Supercool! Bad- 1. This uses the classic blogger hence no easy adding of page elements. Meh. It's ok I don't mind editing the html. I need to figure out the sign in strip at the top. This template was missing that. I've spent entire day on the images. I'm ok with the way they are. Not thrilled, but ok.