Mummy and Subir's visit to Dallas

In the first week of April, Mummy came over to spend a week with us. I had taken the week off and Subir was to visit us over the Easter weekend. Since April is usually mild, we thought it would be the best time to spend some time with the extended family. When Mummy arrived, Alfie had to be gated while we had dinner. Since he usually has the run of the apartment, he wasn't too happy and growled at us. Finally when he came out, he was all excited and jumped all over Mummy. She's comfortable with dogs, so we weren't too worried. The only fear was that she would trip over him, but she managed to hold her own. Mummy brought us a lot of goodies and lots of cool jewellery and bags for Stephanie.

We spent the Sunday at the arboretum. It's a long drive, but the flowers were much prettier compared to the last time Steph and I were there. The week was leisurely, we went to Michael's, bought some arts and crafts work and Mummy made me two little Ganapatis with Sculpy and a Mayan Mask. I also took Mummy to "The Name Sake" and spent some time at bookstores. We had a very relaxing week including a visit to Fortworth where we saw Japanese Art at the Kimbell and also some cool bronze cowboy sculpture at the Amon Carter Museum. The highlight was Mummy's cooking, we picked up a few tips, but what's better than eating good homecooked meals? We had a great time sampling different things including stuffed eggplants (my favorite) and baked shrimp.

We had plans to go to a ballgame Saturday, but the weather dipped into the 30s and no one wanted to sit outside for 4 hours. So instead we went to the zoo! The Fort Worth zoo that is, where we had lotsa fun watching a gorilla eat (look at that cutie) and a really majestic lion.


It was freezing at the zoo, but some Starbucks warmed us up. We came back home to some baked Mahi Mahi. Subir and I watched "Lage Raho Munna Bhai" and we had quite a few laughs.

The next day we spent some time at the "Body Worlds" exhibit at the Science Museum - its quite a work of art and science - they had real bodies which were filled up with silicone to show the structure and contours of the muscles, cartilage, capillaries - The details were quite graphic. Its also scary to know how smoking affects your lungs - the smoker's lungs were coated with tar. The week was fun and ended too fast. I'm still recuperating, which is why this post is a couple of weeks old!

Mihir