The Monkey Story!

On 25th January we went sight seeing in Kodaikanal and at Green Valley view (sucide point) there were loads and loads of monkeys. Those monkeys were the most courageous monkeys we have ever seen in life. Humans don't bother them at all. Neither they are scared nor do they want to scare anyone. You can pass beside them like you are another monkey only :)

So one of these brave monkey saw a half consumed packet of chips in our taxi , which was parked by road side. It had 4 adults and a kid sitting in that and we were waiting for the driver. Just then the brave monkey came from driver's window into the car. It had all the adults and the kid (Aryan) screaming , in scare and in attempt to chase it away while within few seconds the monkey grabbed what it wanted and was out from the same window.

It left Aryan under terror. He could not believe that the monkey took his packet of chips under the nose of his parents. He cried in fear and his heart pumped like it would pop out. The parents and the rest of the junta tried to sooth him. But he kept crying after every few minutes thinking about the event.

He never got down from Mumma's lap the entire day. He was no longer interested in sight seeing and wanted to go home. He told mumma that "main monkey se gussa hoon. woh mera chips le gaya.mera yellow chips "

Later even in train , he asked why the monkey took his chips even though mumma had bought him another one by then.

Now the monkey story is a part of our life. Every night we narrate to each other , how the monkey took Aryan's yellow chips :-D


The Monkey whose brother scared Aryan out !

On a serious note though , we know he would take a looooooooong time to get over this monkey fear. Also , I wanted to take him to zoo soon , since he missed his school trip to zoo , due to our kodaikanal trip but now I fear that he would want to be carried the moment he would see monkeys in the zoo :(

Other real and not -so -real animals that Aryan encountered in kodaikanal :

Horse ride


Inside Lion's mouth

Dinosaur Ride

Deer Ride


Emu at the resort

Rabbits at the resort

Chicken

Mickey MOUSE , Aryan clicked this

Aryan in Kerala !

The much awaited Kerala pics of Aryan !


Aryan enjoying Carrots and Red Banana on way to Munnar


Stretching out soon after reaching Munnar..who doesnot love a nice clean bed!


Enjoying "Jhoola"


At Mattupatty dam


In Speed boat


Walking between the clouds!


Hanging from the roof of house boat ..you don't see papa him holding na !


"Pitr Seva" - Opening Dad's shoe laces , And NO he did not ask Aryan to do so !


Masti with Dadi


Masti with Dadi

Fun at the Weddings !

As many of you know that I was on vacation for 10 days to attend 2 of Anupam's cousins weddings , one in Kota and another in Jaipur.Aryan enjoyed his time at the weddings.
He rocked the floor in his dhoti kurta ,dancing Mithun style in Kota during the sangeet function. But since it was too cold in kota and he being not used to it (born and brought up in Bangalore) he lost all his enthusiasm after sometime and I had to go inside to put him to sleep.

In Jaipur though weather was better and he thoroughly enjoyed both the functions. From dancing in sangeet , to dancing in barat , to sitting on horse with chachu , to touching the horse to see how it feels , to eating loads of ladoos , to trying the bridal chair , to wearing a gardland he did everything. And since he was with his dadu dadi , Tau ji taiji , bua phupha ji and lis cousins he was already on cloud nine.He was so excited that he used to forget when he was hungry and I was running after him for food.

Here is a glimpse of all the fun :

Doing Disco in Dhoti :-)


"Duck Ride : As he called it"


"Sitting Over his Cousin's back"

"Full Masti Mood"


"Dancing in Barat : In Papa's lap"


"Playing with Flowers : Don't I look like a little groom!"


"Pushp Varsha"


"Can someone put a rose for me ?"


"Ok ..I will manage myself ..others are busy with chachu"


"Relaxing with Dadu"

My Smarty

Lets Go Mumma

Come Soon

Ohho ..We are getting Late

Pictures Taken in Goa on 23/3/2008

Sand Play at Goa

I bought these sand play toys for Aryan from Goa itself. When he saw them , he thought its a big spoon and bowl and tried to feed me using that spoon. Then I showed him how to play with them. After that he was on his own and I had a peaceful lunch :-)

Diwali Vacation :Fun at Taiji-Tauji's place

Diwali Vacation :Mama - Bhanja Moments

We went home for Diwali vacation recently and Aryan had whole lot of fun. So let me begin with some fond moments back home.

Aryan had lot of fun with his Mamu(My brother),which includes a race on their fours. I do not have the race video now , but here are some other pics.