Back with updates

Its been about 4 months since I wrote on the blog, and so many things happened in this duration.

In December we made a short trip to India, idea was to save my leaves which were expiring at the end of December and to meet everyone in the family. When we were making the plan we kept our schedule very tight and planned to visit Indore, Mumbai, Pune, Jodhpur and Goa in this short duration. But because mumma was not doing well we had to drop Jodhpur on the last minute. The best part was the Goa trip it was fun and we all enjoyed a lot.

When we came back, it was snowing badly in US. Mid Atlantic region broke all records with 3 major snowstorms and much more snowfall than even Boston or NY. At one point we were so tired of snow storm we were praying to see clean sunny sky. Am wondering what would have happened with people who own their houses and have a long driveway they would have spent their winters cleaning their driveway.

My racquetball is going good, we stopped going to Radisson hotel to play and started playing at Bally's fitness center so that we can play with more and more different people. They have challenger's court on Wednesday evenings where you can walk into the court and challenge the winner of previous game. Initially when I use to enter the court I was sure to loose the game but question was by how much, I have lost games on 3-4 points as well, those guys were amazing and you could learn so much from them. But now looks like am coming somewhat closer, am atleast able to win one game every Wednesday and if I loose its not as bad as it use to be.

I also joined back King of Prussia volleyball league at Aspiring Champions with NetIP team, and next week we have playoffs hopefully we would do well and would be among top 2 teams.

We also started the spring soccer and this year everyone is acting like a pro, off-course they would as we are planning to enter a soccer league this year starting in May. I know we are too bad at soccer, we never run, everyone is short of stamina and its going to be a disaster. But still we all want to play in a league .... thats the spirit.

On 24th May we are planning for a trip to Hawaii Islands, we are a group of 3 families and are expecting this to be the best trip of our life. We initially planned and made reservations for a weeks trip but now we are feeling a week is nothing for Hawaii. It has 6 islands and every island has something different to offer. After a lot of discussions and planning we finally decided to cover 3 islands in 7 days and do a bunch of activities at each island. The schedule is so tight that if we miss an activity due to weather or some reason we wont be able to catch it up on a different day. Our planning excel has every minute level of details starting from Flights to the restaurants for lunch and dinner. I am sure we wont be able to do 100% of what we have planned but even if we do 80% it would be the best trip so far. Some of the important activities that we are planning are Skydiving, Scuba diving, Snorkeling, Jet ski/Para sail/Banana Boat, Shark Cage, Helicopter ride, Dinner cruise.

And the biggest thing going on is Ishaan, he is growing and learning very fast. I sometimes feel the time is running and am going to miss this time. Everyday he has something new to surprise us with his intelligence. Sometimes he would fight to go out and play in winters when it snowing and sometimes to play his favorite cartoon which is has already watched umpteen times and at this age you cant explain him. The best thing I like is as soon as he is in the car on his car seat he will start his demand to play the songs he like ... he will say "Daddy Daddy ... I want Jai ho" and later would sing along on Jee Karda .....Ek Baari ho Ek baari ...We recently changed his day care and fortunately he is comfortable at the new place and talks about his new friends.