Rain musings

Sanja is all excited to be going to school this June. In the series of conversation that we are having all centered around this, she said the following things in a very serious mood- Sanja - "Amma, papa-ve school ko poven. classroom poven. Nee ennodha school ko varadhe.Papa ve school bus la poithu vandudhuven. Teacher apparum papa va thithuva."  (Mom, you don't come to school. I will go on my own to school and class room. I will go by bus and come home. Teacher will scold if you come) Amma quips- But Sanja teacher will ask me to come there a couple of times. Sanja- nee varadhe ma, theveye illa !! (You don't come, there is no need). Amma - But I know some your teachers ( since i studied in the same school) Sanja- Pakka venam!! (No need to see ) Rendu veyasula ippadhi naan pandhu veyasula eppadhi iruka pordho ..... (If in 2 years it is like this ,what will happen when she is 12)

A must deserved holiday was spent in Munnar. Thanks to last minute (literaaly a few days )decision we couldnt get any train tickets to Kochi. So Sanja got her first flight journey booked from Chennai to Kochi. From Kochi we were picked by our travel guide/ driver to proceed to Munnar. On our way we had breakfast and Sanja had the bout of travelling sickness. Puke smelling we saw the Virala falls and the Deepa spice gardens. After the purchase of home-made chocos, some spices we reached our resort arount 2:30 PM. Ordered roome service for lunch and spent the remaining day lazying around and catching up with world cup final. Day 2:  After a yummy breakfast  headed to elephant ride, Mattupatty dam , speed boat ride , kundala lake, echo point and Tea museum.              Sanja enjoyed the elephant ride very much. The elephant we  rode on was a 30 year old female named Yamuna. Yamuna is accustomed to camera and knows when to pose and how to pose. S offered it a fruit basked that it gobble