All us adults were awake past midnight today...so just after the clock struck 12, we started singing "Happy Birthday" to S. My uncle even bought a small little cake for him. It was sweet that they stayed up to make his birthday.
Later...this morning we were going to visit another family related to us, on our way back from church. But, they decided to visit us between services on their way back home. Fair enough. Well, the first service ended late (what's new!), so they came to visit us late and we went to the second service late, but because of brown outs and the generator failing, we were early. The second service, which is supposed to begin at 10:30 a.m., began at 11:45 a.m., after the power came back. Since the service was all in Telugu, we didn't stay long, just for the singing. I can't even begin to describe the singing. The "worship leader" was out of tune and practically eating the microphone and we ended up sitting just below one of the speakers. Not only that, but it was all a cappella, so he had only himself to drown him out. Isabella was holding her ears in agony...unfortunately, we couldn't be that candid.
Right after we got home, my cousin, B and myself went to grab some special lunch for S's b'day. We got some pizza from Pizza Hut and a few subs from Subway...a real "American" lunch. We also got a few pieces of cake and a slice of "apple pie", which wasn't the same, but it was the idea. At least lunch was better than my McDees b'day dinner a few years back.
Pizza:
Hawaiian (Large); Paneer Veg (Med.); Veggie special (Small - came free with the medium paneer)
Subs:
Roast lamb; Club (turkey, "ham" and lamb); Chicken Tikka; Paneer Tikka
Cake (Slices):Chocolate Almond; Black Forest; White Forest; Truffle Nut; Honey Nut; Chocolate Vanilla
Apple Pie
It took us about 2 hours by auto to grab this stuff and we didn't go more than 7 miles. We got home with lunch around 2 p.m. and our train was leaving at 4:30 p.m. Talk about rushing through a meal...we gobbled it down and headed to the train station. India has to be the largest manufacturer of rubber neckers. On the way to the station we were caught in a traffic jam because of an accident. The vehicles involved weren't actually causing the jam, it was all the crazy people who stopped in the middle of the street to see what was going on. Good grief! I would not have been happy if we had missed the train....
