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Happy Halloween from Mumbai

November 9, 2008 – 10:01 am

We are, indeed, a week or so late - but that’s ok! Because of the week without walls trip and Diwali break, our Halloween celebrations didn’t take place until yesterday, but we sure jumped into them whole heartedly!
We had bought some Indian pumpkins - green, not orange - before our break, and kept them in [...]

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Back from one, off on another

October 25, 2008 – 12:05 pm

Alea and Dave got back from our Week Without Walls trips on Thursday and Friday respectively, and now we are all packing up for our week long trip to Udaipur. Mom and Breck had some quality alone time, including day of canceled school! There had been some political unrest with a nationalistic party (the same [...]

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Happy Halloween!

November 1, 2007 – 7:51 am

So here it is, one day after our Diwali shindig, and we had the big Halloween get together. (You can bet the kids are just going nuts at school with all the parties, candy, days off, and break coming up.) We had a trick or treating night at our apartment building, and all staff kids [...]

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Eid Mubarak

October 14, 2007 – 9:33 pm

Well the kids are in bed, but the fireworks are just starting to go off all over. It is Eid, the end of a month of fasting for Mulsims, and our neighbors downstairs are gearing up for a big party tonight. I wonder how that will compare with the Oktoberfest party we are planning for [...]

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