The trip
The trip was coming up, and there was excitement in the air for weeks, nay months before! Questions as to what to do and how to do them were up in the air. Rajesh had come up with the idea of everybody writing annecdotes and memoirs, and loading pics. He was going to make a memory book for us to present to Appa and Amma. As we started writing, the stories were so good, that it seemed like a good idea to make several copies. Prakash was going to bein India a week ahead of the rest of us, and so volunteered to take on that immense task. In the meantime, Jayanthi started working on a newsletter, Sanjana started working on T-shirts for everyone, and also started working on writing a skit so that the kids could perform it out there in Munnar, and I started working on some Jeopardy games. The excitement building up to the trip was palpable. Then we had a huge bonus to this already wonderful trip in the making. Sundar and Manka worked out their scheduled visit so that our stays would overlap ...