I do not want to bore with the details but somewhere in that evening, there was a terrible pun I had come up with as well as some serious explanation of Herodotus’s observations of how the Persians passed any law … giving rising to the phrase “in vino veritas” !!!

Went out with the birthday girl! Since she cannot drink…. yeaaay!! more for us!!!

… at a bar that bills itself as “Bourbon and Bayou”, you are always well advised to go there with somebody from the ultimate Bayou country – LSU!!

… with a couple we met 22 years back!!

Exactly a month back – I had written about accidentally running into this young man’s grandparents in Kalyani at somebody else’s  house. Today, I finally got to meet him and spend some quality time with him. At the end, when it came to taking the mandatory picture to be posted on my blog, he did the best version of “rolling one’s eyes” that a one year old could muster 🙂 Might need some practice on how to do that without moving the head though 🙂

In the meanwhile, in our long walks, he taught me how to say “Throw me up in the air”, “No, I am not going to eat anything”, “No, I am not going to sleep now”, “No, you cannot stop walking now” 🙂

Best time in the world! This is the one reason I love to go to the Bengali Pujas – there is always some small kid to spend some time with…