We went to Maine to go to my high school best friend’s wedding. The wedding was a blast. Our pictures didn’t turn out that great, but I bet they had some beautiful ones. Here is one of the new couple and their dog. I think it’s cute! Congratulations Beck and Stuart!
We have more pictures of the wedding, some old high school friends and a lot of great pictures of Mirabelle in and around Portland. So check out the Flickr site. Just click on the picture and it’ll take you there.
In this picture she is showing off one of the many starfish she found at the tide pools. We took pictures of the animals, but unlike California, many people were collecting the animals in their sand buckets and showing them off to everyone. I think I saw at least 10 people with 20-50 starfish in their buckets! That’s a lot confused starfish. I feel sorry for these tide pools. Their inhabitants must have a hard life.
Here are the states that Govind has visited thus far (I missed this year’s Amnesty International meeting in Wisconsin, so I missed a chance there):
Sarina is showing her younger cousin how to crawl.
Mirabelle visited with lots of her cousins, but here is a picture of her with her only “real” cousin (daughter of Govind’s sister).
The highlights of our trip were grandparents interacting with Mirabelle. They loved her of course! These are Charlotte’s parents in their house in Napa, CA.
We will be returning to Ithaca tomorrow evening.
Charlotte, Govind and Mirabelle will be on vacation beginning from today till early January. We’ll be posting irregular updates from Maricopa and Scottsdale in Arizona and Napa in California. Hope everyone has a good winter holiday season!
Charlotte, Mirabelle and I will be spending Thanksgiving with my aunts and uncles in Maryland. We will be staying in Frederick, after taking in Gettysburg. It should be a fun, but short trip. We’ll update with photos once we get back.
For more pictures of the Vermont trip, especially of the old cabin, visit our website.
Well, here is Charlotte standing at the exact point where her uncle used to live in central Vermont. The cabin was used from the 1940s to the 1970s by Cecil Bell, a renowned artist from New York City. His work hangs at museums and art galleries around the world, including Cornell’s Johnson Museum. 
We’ll have some pictures later. It was a fun trip out to south central Vermont and briefly in New Hampshire. The highlight definitely came at the end when we saw some of Charlotte’s great-uncle’s paintings at a restaurant in Killington. We also got some good pictures of the cabin that he spent his summers in until his death in 1970. It was a great road trip– only 4 hours from Ithaca!
I’m off to Hollywood for International Women’s Day and the Hollywood opening of Deepa Mehta’s film Water. I’ll be schmoozing with Hollywood’s actors and actresses, just days after the Oscar’s. Actually, I have no idea what I’m going to be doing there other than participating in a question and answer on human rights in India. I’m sure I’ll be woefully underdressed for this occassion (my used, slightly too small green jacket that I bought at a used clothing store will be no match for Brad Pitt’s fancy get-up).
It’s going to be an extremely quick trip. I’m leaving tomorrow morning at 7am, will arrive there at 1:30pm, then leave around noon the next day. I tried to squeeze in a trip to Phoenix to see my parents, and my sister’s family, but the connections didn’t work out– I’d have to be away another day, which I can’t afford.
So, no updates from Govind on his side, but Charlotte said that she’ll post some stuff on this blog very soon!!
Thanks to Gilles and Marie for sending us photos from our Thanksgiving 2004 in farm outside of Ithaca. (Note that Ithaca is basically surrounded by farms in all directions, so putting that it is 5 miles outside of downtown Ithaca does not give you a sense of how far it really was!). Anyways, these cute Shetland cows made friends of all of us quite quickly actually! More pictures to be posted very soon!
Over the Christmas holiday, we traveled to Napa to visit Charlotte’s parents. Here is Charlotte with her good friend Kara, at Lake Beryessa, about 15 miles northeast of Charlotte’s parent’s home. 
Charlotte’s cousin (Keith) and his wife (Angela) just had a baby, Kaia. Keith is an officer in US Air Force in San Antonio, Texas and we had an opportunity to visit after my cousin’s wedding near Houston. 
Charlotte carrying Kethan and Govind carrying Sarina at Suman’s wedding in The Woodlands, TX in early November 2005. 
Here is a picture of Charlotte and Govind diligently playing with our then one month old niece, Sarina, in Maricopa, Arizona. 
