Arguably a great part for me… made a couple of cocktails with vodka, mango juice and some spices.

Opted to drink in my sister’s house instead of climbing the terrace to avoid my parents walking in. It is pretty hot outside. We did lock my sister’s house from the inside.

After an hour, my brother abruptly left us and went upstairs. Apparently to try to see if he could change my dad’s mind about not going for a quick getaway with all family members. He came back and declared “He just won’t go.”. Meanwhile the nephews and niece started making a case that the getaway was for them too – not just their grandparents.

I am kind of easy on the semantics of these kind of things. I believe I have signed up to take my nephews and niece on a 2-day vacation – with or without the grandparents…

After soccer game and fuchkas, time to get the whole family together… Today’s two hour session discussions extended from Rubik’s cube to whether Finland is part of Scandanavia or not. (I learnt that it is not. In my defense, unlike others, I was aware Denmark is part of it). The finale was trying to take a self timer photo on my iPhone set up on two books on a stool next to the window sill… which you can see here…

Streetside Fuchka!!! (Also called golgappas or paanipuris)

Apologize for the picture quality. I was too engrossed in the deliciousness of fuchkas to realize what the nephews were doing with my phone. Also, I can, at times profusely sweat from my scalp in reaction to the sharp spicy hot taste of fuchkas. Hence the cap worn backwards in my head 🙂

Some make shift soccer with nephews, brother, brother in law, some kids I have never met before in my life…

A full 39 hours after I started, I eventually reached my parents’ place! Apparently my dad has been sitting out for a couple of hours.

Through all these years, never ever have these two young gentlemen failed to show up at the airport to welcome me. Kolkata will never be Kolkata for me if as soon as I get out of the airport, I am not hit by the oppressive heat, humidity that you can knife thru and the smiling faces of these two kids…