Weekend update

First of all, Happy Birthday to my godson, H.W. He turns one today! check out his web page www.babywright.com

Second, I'm in the midst of reading Harry Potter. i did actually pre-order my copy which is awaiting my arrival back in Waco, but Christina bought a copy Saturday at Crosswords and she is saving it for the plane trip back, so i couldn't really just let it sit there forlorn and unread... Most excellent.

Third, Shirley and Jeri thanks for the comments on the blog.

Let's see, since last I wrote, Christina and I were walking to Crosswords on Saturday and as we passed the city dump, what should we see but the camel herd grazing away. One of the benefits of being a camel is that camels can eat the leaves from the trees above the city dump rather, than say, the baby piglets who cannot. We were stopped for this delightful photo op and happened to run into Cheryl and Eliza who had not yet had the glorious experience of riding the camel. (we declined a second ride, but truthfully watching them ride was nearly as much fun as our own. Unfortunatley, the camel's legs got a bit crossed on their descent downward and for a while we were worried that they really had been the ride that broke the camel's back, but he recovered and was quickly back at work...

Cheryl invited us to a dinner party later that evening after practice. Christina was feeling a bit tired out and pitta aggravated from our walk (It has gotten pretty hot the past couple days, not Texas hot, but creeping into the ballpark) but I went without her, without undue pod separation anxiety. It was a lot of fun. We ate pasta and nori rolls and chocolate ice cream and momos. (Momos are Tibetan dumplings).

Sunday, Christina and I did a nice backward bending practice in the apartment and then headed out for our shopping extravaganza. We tried to go to Fab India, but again our rickshaw driver didn't know how to get us there, but he did drop us off at a very nice mall a small mall, surrounding a large department store shoppers stop. Christina got a lovely pink and orange outfit with sparkles... (Indian clothing is much more vibrant and makes full use of the color spectrum in a way that typical American outfits do not!) and I got two cool shirts one hot pink with sparkles and another sort of paisley printed with sparkles... sparkles are clearly quite in here.
we went to cafe day at the mall...and then tried to go to Fab-India, but again the rickshaw drivers did not know fab India. they did, however, know the German bakery and so we went there, while there we also wanted to check out dragon gifts which turned out to be a head shop so that didn't take as long as we anticipated (and there is no non-tourist activity stamp on Christina's visa to consider....) We ended up not getting anything at the Bakery (sigh, but I was pretty full from the coffee drink). We did, however, find a rickshaw driver who knew where Fab-India was and after some intense negotiation over the price, Christina got him down from 50 to 40 rupees, we were off.

At Fab-India, we bought several capri pants and looked for gifts for various family members and then we decided to go have a drink at the Bar at Le Meridian. Lovely hotel, nice to be in the lap of luxury for a couple hours, and they had great little samosas with tamarind sauce, not to mention sour cream and onion potato chips for a bar snack. Next sunday we are going back to take in the rooftop pool.

This morning we did the thigh smashing sequence and the simasana sequence. We have Geeta's class tonight!