it snowed today ...

Yaa it did,



It started snowing from afternnoon. and was snowing till we reached home at 6:30 pm.



Now its 8:30 pm and as i see outside its stopped snowing.



When I came out of office , it was sort of dark . (now .. thts normal for winters to have short days here) Yet I could see a layer of snow everywhere. The Cars were covered with snow. It was still snowing. Just as in the movies snowflakes were assimilating and One of my colleagues spent his time enjoying the snow on his head. when he came back in, his head had tiny snow flakes.



Of course it was extremely cold. I had on my thermals, my shirt,trousers, Plus a sweater and then a long knee length jacket. even then!!! i could feel the cold!! I of course had worn my gloves and a woollen cap on my head , but even then i was worried i would catch the cold. As fast as possible I jumped into the car and off were we on our way home.



The traffic was slow and no wonder. Everyone had snow on their windshield and was unable to see the road . everything was blurred due to the condensation and it reminded of of rainy days in Bangalore. The traffic had surely piled up but we still made it in good time home.



I missed my camera sorely. I was at a loss to understand how anyone else couldnt consider clicking snaps!!! after it was our first ever snow fall in New Jersey -Princeton !! Yet i will try and click some snaps tomorrow ...



see yaaaaaaaaaaaa.

The Adventure on a Sunday

Ha , so we all thought we should goto Apna Bazaar in Edison instead of Patels

Princeton and asked the GPS for the directions. Yeah we reached in 10 mins and

were dissapointed to see a small shop(ok supermarket) with prices thrice what the

same item would cost in Patel's!!! and welllllll we decided to scoot away. We had

to do that slowly and without drawing attention to ourselves. SO some of us slowly

snucked away and scooted out of the door. Two of the boys were still in and when

they realised taht wehad bolted, they coolly kept their wares back and made it to

the door. All the time the stern boss lady kept looking. When we gathered at the

car and got into it, we were hoping that Aunty wouldnt come badgering in.

So now we deceided that we should go back to Patels and set the GPS to take us

there. It showed the distance as 32 miles!!!!welllll!!!!

So there.... off were we chugging off the route as shown and i saw tht the fuel

indicator was in Empty. Raghu was driving and I reminded him on the fuel. He was

like "Dont worry we will fill gas on way" But somehow my mind was uneasy. We

missed two gas stations. The third we pulled in had "NO AMEX" clearly printed on

the fuel pump and well..... so off we went...

and lo behold we reached the HIGHWAY!!!! as we drove along chatting and enjoying,

raghu says ' O .. I think...' and i was like ' No dont...... ' OK now i coudlnt

say 'I told u so' and said ' take the car to the right. If it stops at least we

will nt be in the middle of the road. And the Car stopped in front of the Median

fr the police. Now All of us were in a quandry. I was the only one who has a

mobile. but.. tht particular day looked like I FORGOT it home!!! Also there was no

PCO nearby So there... here were were in a middle of nowhere.. strnded with no

mobile.. and heights of heights.... NO ONE excpt me had their passport on them.

SOOOOO wellllll...

We decided to wait it out... A State highway trooper was sure to make rounds rite?

Renuka and I remained back inside he car. the boys waited outside the car. It was

extremely windy. To top that the vehicles were whizzing by at 120 mpm and above!!

Even our heavy Voyager shook at times when a huge truck passed by.

Afetr around half an hour, the police car came. I prayed tht there would be a

understanding cop in it and not one who woudl fine us for not noticing our fuel

meter!! And my prayers were answered. The cop was a cute american guy who could

have actually been Santa by Spirit. When We told him tht our fuel tank is over ,

he said ' O u just missed a station by 1 mile!!' God how dismayed were we... The

good man assured us tht he would have the state service called and have a

personnel get us a gallon of fuel so tht we could then getinto the fuel station

right ahed and fill up some more. PHEW tht was a relief. We thanked him and Off he

wentttttttt.

Well we waited for another 45 minutes... all the time wondering whether they

forgot about us? we actually spotted a Service van on the other side of the

highway and presuemd tht it was for us. BUt it didnt turn up for quite sometime.

And justwhen we had given up, there it was !!! A nice rolly polly guy got down and

after some signing and paying (35$) for 1 gallon (Add some tax and servcie

charge) we had the car all heated up and raring to go...

We followed the service guy and he guided us to the nearest fuel station. If it was not for him we surely would have missed this too.

SO now tht we were "Full Tanked" off we chugged to the Patels by GPS. At last we reached A Patels and to our surprise found out tht We were in EDISON!!!!! What? we were supposed to reach the Princeton Patels and here we reached EDISON.

well.... now this was like a Mini India!!! Yaa Indians eveywhere, OIndian shops and Shopkeepers,Indian restautants. Some of us went to the supermarket while Kevin and raghu went for a quick bite.

When we met them later, they praised the Chicken Biryani that they ate and we were tempted to eat some thing too.

Surendra, Myself and Renuka went to a place called "VOLGA" and ordered Bhel, Puri Bhaaji and Chicken Biryani. Being a Veggie, I didnt eat teh biryani, but the bhel and the Puri were good. i tipped them 50 cents and off we went.

The drive back was rather subduded. We promised not to utter our fuel anecdote to anyone else for fear of being ridiclued.

HAHAHA.. SO tht was it.. Dont tell anyone i told you .. ok?