Met up with Sharmila’s classmate from her graduate degree days and then also a colleague later – Tricia and her friend Rebecca.

Pratyush and I go back a long way. He must be the person with whom I have lived in the same city the most number of times… Durgapur, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Mumbai, and Dallas! The last time I visited them, which was another wedding-related trip to Dallas, this time for their own son, we obviously didn’t get a chance to have a good “adda”. This time, we made up for that!

One of the very first Bengali friends from Dallas. We first met three decades back. Sunil and Anannya have not grown even an iota from those days, it would seem.

Aniruddha. Moreover, Indrani and Sharmila went to college together in UT, Arlington!

The top coffee-producing countries in the world. Who knew Nepal produces coffee? The red ones are the countries from where I have already sourced coffee beans (29 of them). The blue ones are still to go.

After we returned from downtown, I sat in the living room to continue reading. Sharmila left both the dogs for a minute and went downstairs to get something.

Bogga, who always takes a shine to Sharmila, did not want to be separated from her. So, she stood there staring at the staircase to see when she might reappear from the stairwell.

Jay Jay, did not want to miss out on the action. So, instead of desultorily ambulating to his usual perching place on top of the sofa backrest, he sat there looking in the same direction as Bogga. It was less about when Sharmila would return. It was more about “what the heck is Bogga looking at?” kind of curiosity.

My personal logo is on my cappuccino. Thanks to Larry’s deft skills and his 3D printer!

We got down in Ontario, California, retired our suitcases, grabbed a rental car. It was past nearly midnight by our time zone. Instead of going to the hotel, we decided to go straight to Rishu’s dorm and pick him up from there. We brought him to the hotel and had a dinner with him. This was his reaction to the banana split!