A Shopping Adventure

My body seems to have adjusted as of now to the timings here. Although I did wake up early in the morning at 3 and phone krish
using keerthi's calling card. After that i was awake for quite some time before drifting off to sleep. I managed to watch some
TV and found a tele shop where they were selling houses for 250$. !!!!!!

now in the morning at 8 , snehal woke me up saying "everyone is going shopping for groceries. we need to be ready in 15
mins!!!" Gosh tht was a hurry hurry session. I brushed and freshened up in 5 mins(wow) we prepared tea and Maggi. gobbled tht
and set out. Boy !! was it cold???

The group of 6 of us set off walking towards wht we thoght was the right direction to the supermarket. Sridevi had read tht
it was just 15 mins walk and hence we were all geared up for a walk. We liked the surroundings. The trees were showing FALL
colours. the hues were ranging from yellow to pink to red and i missed having my camera. I ought to buy one sooooooon. The
apartments dissolved into quaint houses. Many of them had signs of Trick O Treating. Seemingly scary hollowed out pumpkins
were seen in most houses while a few more had ghosts and skeletons. i missed my camera again. :-( I hope i get one soon
before ppl clear out there halloween decorations.

My colleagues were not aware of Haloween!!! I was surprised!! I guess I must thank my reading for this knowledge.
Anyways, walking and walking didnt yield to any success. we took many wrong turns and entered and reentered lanes and
eventually managed to come out of our complex. A lady when asked told us that a shoping area was tooooo far to wlk to.
Another lady pointed to another direction and said tht tht would be nearer and why doesnt she drop us there?? How nice of her
to offer to drop a bunch of people to some place pretty far!!! She went home and met us in her car at the entrance of the
complex. It was a Lexus. we trooped in and she took us to this place called "WHOLE MART" and boy we realise dtht it was not
possible to reach here by walk not coz of the distance but also because we would touch the highway and that had no pedestrain
walks!!!!!!

We thanked her profusely and she offered to wait for us!! WOW were we lucky????

So off we entered the supermarket. We entered the veggie and fruits section. I was so overwhelmed by the display of the
veggies and fruits. They looked to inviting!!! every item was sooooooooooo fresh and alluring. I missed my camera again!!!!
The prices were equally high. One cauliflower for 2.99 $ = 150 Rs!!!!!!!!!!!!! tomatoes - 6$ potato -5.99 $ you name it and everything in $$$$ nothing in cents!!!! we bought 2 jugs of milk, 2 boxes of curd, cornflakes, Sunflower Oil - half lt for 4$ i think!!! and lotsaa fresh veggies and fruits. total bill was guess how much 140$ WHOOPS do the maths.

So there we were with three troleys full of stuff and we waited for the good lady who dropped us. we searched the parking lot for her and she was nowheere to be seen. So we booked a cab and went back.

This was our first shopping expedition in the US.

in the evening when prasad called up, i mentione dtht we went shopping to this place WholeMart and he said "thats a premium shopping place" . I thiough no wonder everything was priced soooo high.

Heloooooooooooooooooooo People...

Heloooooooooooooooooo

its me back after a looooooooooooooooooooonggggggggggggg hiatus again.

Yes have been busy now tht i m not just a working woman but a working mom!!

there is no time to blog now...

but heyyyyyy heres some news. I am out to NJ on a work assignment.

My love and my baby are back in India while i sweat it out over here. Wish they were here with me. Anyways... thts just sometime. They willl join me soon once they wind up.

In the meantime, lemme blog this visit to the US...

Read on if interested.......