Londoners are here!!!

Finally we had Renu travelling to India with family. He planned ~3 weeks+ trip (from Oct 19 - Nov 10) which was really good. We witnessed some functions and events:

       1. Mundan ceremony for Gopalan Johan
       2. Ayush-homa for all the kids

It was amazing to have all the family members (FIL/MIL along with Renu family) in Bangalore.

We traveled to Tuticorin for the Mundan ceremony. Johan sat through the function without a single murmur, which surprised everyone.

1. The lift snap

2. The post mundan ceremony 

3.In the train (return journey from Tuticorin)

4. The Ayushoma pooja preperation

5. Ayushoma - the preperation

6. Mamooty all set for Ayushoma

7. Luncheon @Jamawar - Leela Palace

For Mundan ceremony we had Balu/Ramani mama, along with ammayi joining the function. Also Balu mamas younger son joined.

For Ayushoma - we had Madiralema and husband joining. Ammu joined for some time and left to office while her daughter was at home with grandparents.

Diwali with a difference

This time Diwali was special and different with Renu and family around. They had planned the trip to witness Diwali in India. With Supreme Court restricting bursting of crackers from 8-10 PM, there was a bit of dampening in fireworks on first day, but could see no boundaries being followed on actual day of Diwali.

Susana and Karishma spent some time painting the 'Diyas'.

Sid and Karishma did try to sell as art work post the painting was done. Interesting bargaining happened, but unfortunately no sales was done;)

Evening time Sid and Karishma were excited to lite up the painted Diya's. Post lighting up Diya's they set it at the entrance and it was one of those mesmerizing moments.

They wanted to see some fireworks so went and bought few Sparklers, flower pots, chakri etc. It was a wonderful evening of Diwali.

New looking hall!!!

We decided to remove the shelf from the main hall (above TV unit) and move it out to Sid room as book shelf. This was one long pending ask from Meera. When Rubwood folks came to move the study table to master bed room, got this work also done.

After removing the shelf, the wall looked all messed up with nail holes all over the wall.

Wall post removal of shelf

Had to get the wall painted before Londoners reached home. Decided to fill the holes using putty and paint the wall by self.

Painter doing his job

It took 3 coatings of paint before the putty color could be concealed. Did mistake of not filling the holes properly with putting, which did show some unevenness in the wall after painting. But overall the wall looked clean and all set (DIY project).

Wall post painters job got completed

Quite a decent work;)

Meeras office space

With Meera becoming a full time employee (WFH), she needed a proper desk space to work. Obvious choice was to get custom desk done with Rubwood (managing to have it as office desk, and handle Sid keyboard).

Initially the desk could not be placed inside the master bedroom due to its size. Thus it was placed in Sid room, making it spaceless (though with natural lights, it looked perfectly placed).

The movement to Sid room was done while Meera and Sid were in Tuticorin. Later after looking at the space availability in Sid room, we decided to move it back to Master bed room (only after Rubwood folks did some cutting for it to enter the room).

Thats the new look office space for Meera;)

Tuti beach

Went to Tuticorin beach with Renu and family during their visit. It was bit late in evening, but had good time.

Its not very safe to be hanging around the beach post sunset, as we may have some drunk folks causing problem. We wrapped up just after sunset and back home. 

Tumbbad followed by Teen Patti ;)

Meera and Sid went to Tuticorin to set up the house for our Londoners visit. Meanwhile took the opportunity to watch Tumbbad movie (cinematography by Pankaj) along with Manoj and Captain. At the end of the movie Manoj said "It would have been good if the movie had subtitles" ;)

Post that we huddled at Captains house and ended up playing Teen Patti all through the night, uptill morning 6 AM ;) Well Captain took home all the loyalties, while Manoj who was winning at start ended up with be biggest hole in pocket;)

Sid's new bed

Siddharth got his new bed, given he wanted to sleep on his own. We got the work done from Rubwood.