Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Ahmedabad Gujarat India

After we left Baruch, Sonam, Sunil my mom and I went to Ahmedabad to visit my side of the family for a a couple of days before we took off for Goa.  We stopped by in Anand for lunch at this beautiful ashram for lunch and ventured out to see the animals.
Sonam meet Sonam :) 
with the Swamis at the Ashram


Cutie Priya
Ankur Mama
Made it all the way to top of Chotila Mundir, hanging out with Priya and Aniket Mama


Beautiful view from the top
Thank you for meeting us half way, it was wonderful to see everyone!
My Granny 
This is the "Indian baby swing"
TOO CUTE!


Day of the family reunion in Baruch

We all got together at a beautiful park overlooking the Narmada River in Baruch for a family reunion.








Danda Gujarat India

Danda is the town where Papa grew up, it was great to visit family see our farm and best of all visiting his childhood school.
Tractor  
Milind's turn 
Outside the school Papa went to
We donated water bottles to all the students in the school 



All the happy kids getting there new water bottles
Our cotton farm!
Enjoying a bag of chips each in the middle of the farm.

they all rode back home on a very cool motorbike

Amod Gujarat India

We went to Amod India, its the town where Mummy grew up,  we visited her house and school.
Right behind us is Mummy's house


Milind playing with the local boys

Brother's :)

Loves the open ground to run around in

up close with the monkeys

Milind and Sonam walked into a local Kindergarten 

Family in Amod

Whirlwind trip to India- Baruch Gujarat India

Our entire family took a trip to India at the beginning of February to attend a family reunion hosted by Papa, he planned this entire trip with great love a detail with over 100 family members who joined us in Baruch, India!  Here are a few pictures from our trip, we traveled to a few towns/villages in Gujarat then Sunil, Sonam and I detoured and ventured out to Mumbai, Goa and Delhi for the latter half of our trip...needless to say, it was quite the whirlwind trip for us and we thoroughly enjoyed it!  Thank you to Papa for getting the ball rolling :)
Sonam is 16 months in these pictures and has learned so very much in the past couple of months.  Especially on this trip she's actually communicating with words vs. sign language, and has developed some bad food habits at the top of the list being potato chips!  

at the airport in Amstradam!

Waiting for flight to Mumbai
Family meeting us at the Ahemdabad airport



Right on the road as we were driving to Bharuch

Milind and Sonam learning to play Cricket!


Foi's house in Bharuch

Kids having fun with Urvesh Kaka

Beautiful Narmada River

At Narmada River thinking of Mummy