Work trips down south are never too much fun for me... mainly cos its too hot pretty much all the time and I get decent vegetarian food only if i'm lucky... well, the last trip down south was slightly different. Landed in New Orleans and drove to Pascagoula, MS for a week long trip... N'orleans looked much different from the last time I'd been there... saw the devastation caused by hurricane Katrina (even after 9 months)... looked nasty! Rows and rows of houses destroyed, hundreds had blue tarps on roofs and hundreds being worked on... trailors and RVs every which way you looked. Was like a ghost town... Interesting sight, sad, eye-opening...
Well, anyways, work was allright... too much sun, tanned myself quite a bit :) food was decent too... hotel manager turned out to be a 'really enthusiatic' desi guy... offered to make me gujrati vegetarian food ("can i make you some bateta pohwa?") almost everytime I went to the reception area :) wanted me to come over to his house (part of the hotel) and meet his family and everything... scary.
Back home now, parents leave (back to India) in a week... its gonna be hectic next few days with them doin their final shopping (never ending, if u ask me) and packing...
You forgot to mention your adventure trying to get back home. No one was more happy than me to see you back home :)
deepa said...
11:46 AM