Oriental Spice

This is the place you don't go to when you want to have a fine dining experience// you don't feel fine when you are dining cos the food is nowhere close to Oriental spice, those who wait on you have a lot of problems to solve and crosses to shoulder, non-smoking zone is occupied by chain smokers, and worst, there's the round table - the revolving one so that the waiter can order you to place the plate there and soon!, within the next 30 seconds cos he sure has the look on his face that he is rushing to save those in greater trouble than you are... not the best of ways to end a day which otherwise was pretty good.. wake up happily post 8am with kids sleeping like babies until 8am, cruise around with no plan, and then sleep through the afternoon, the family that sleeps together is sure a lucky family, so what if this luck is happenstance once a year(!), then make a plan to go visit some relative which mom and pop are sane enough to cancel, or say defer for a better time, and finally decide to go buy vegetables from Hopcoms.. the key words being - walk, and all the four of us.I liked it, the whole trip, of going together, to get something so mundane done, should do this more often. Seeing Siddharth walk holding his dad's hand, not complaining one bit that he needed to be carried (the guy's a real sport, always takes what life throws at him, and handles it pretty well too), Nandita holding mine all along singing 'if all the raindrops were lemondrops and lollipops, oh what a rain that would be...', medley of thoughts - could not wait to see them grown up and in their teens while also wishing they would continue to hold the hand for a little more time. for just another day!
No big things in life, only the small ones.. pix captured by the heart on a real sultry evening... and am sure every family must be doing this.. no making any more a big deal of it!