July 12-16

July 12 - we left for Bangalore or it is now called Bangaluru! we reached at 12 and met Daddy and his friend Jai. He drove us all the way home. We saw Avva (Daddy's mom) and Venki (Dad's brother) at home. On the way we saw many cows, horses, dogs (of course!) and goats. Judy, just so you know, sloppy goats means sloppy. We went to a store with Avva and bought a carom board, some balls to play, and yummy mangoes! Carom is a game in Indian that people like to play for fun. It is square board and you need strategy to play. We also went for a walk and played in the playground. Maya almost made it to the fourth bar of the monkey bars by herself until she fell and landed on her nose. We needed to ice the nose as it had swollen up and got scratched.

July 13 - We visited daddy's company Flat World. We found out that it wasn't flat! Jai taught us how to make froggies that hop for real (with origami paper). He also showed us how to do Math puzzles and gave us lot of fun things to do. Later that evening, we went to his house and met his family. Maya and I hung out with Yash ( Jai's son who is my age). Yash has a Wii and a video game which kept us entertained all evening. We had a lot of fun today.

July 14 - we met a new cousin named Navya. She is six and half. We were actually set to go to Bangaretta National Park and do a safari but the park was closed. Boo-hoo-hoo! So, instead we went to the mall and played in the playzone. We won a lot of tickets but we were 14 tickets short to get Maya's game. So, Jai went and played a game and won the jackpot. So, now we had 300 tickets more. This helped us get a lot more prizes than before. We love Jai and so we made him thank you cards. We had so much fun with Navya that we decided to have a sleepover with Navya even though we just met her.

July 15 - Mommy and Avva did a puja (prayer ceremony) at the temple. Mommy wore a sari and we wore our Indian clothes. We all looked pretty. We also got 200 rupees each as gifts. We went shopping later to a different mall hoping they would have a fun playzone too. But they didn't. On the way back, we saw some historic places and also ate a guava. It was disgusting as it had a lot of seeds. Later, we met Navya again at Daddy's family get-to-gether. We met a lot of daddy's relatives. We also met Apoorva and her sister Deepti. They were in Daddy's Two Million Minutes movie.

Words I learned today:
In Kannada, "Come to my house" is "Manay Gab Bunny"