galavanting garwalis

i had this post all ready to go, and then the computer shut down. this did not please me. however, after yoga this morn, i did not greet the error message with profanity. hurray, ravishankar. hurray.

so, as i was saying before i was so rudely interrupted by technological glitches, we expats like to kick it on the weekends. we like to kick it, hard. (we= marathon vinson, kamikaze vandrunnen, bredwinner meyer and the river humm). we're loose cannons, my friends. predictable? no. too cool for school? you bet your britches.


the last few weekends have included hiking, bowling (i got three strikes in a row. for real. proudest life moment.), and an amusement park. bet you didn't see that coming, did you? we set out on a hike to the doon valley around noon, passing through dhobighat (with all of the sheets billowing in the wind, can you guess what dhobi means in hindi, children? i bet you can...) , some villages, a construction site... and then the most surprising of all, joyland. finally, an amusement park void of all the usual shennanigans... seat belts on bumper cars, shoulder harnesses on the "friserbee," safety areas surrounding rides... weekends like these sure do turn frowns upside downs.