Ringing in 2023 from Houston

 We spent the last days of 2022 in Houston visiting family

Milan and Kirin looked like giants next to their little cousins

 

 

Milan got to ride another transit system, we played in some fountains, visited the space center, and went ice skating at the Galleria

 

 

We had lots of fun with our Houston family who made us feel at home!

 

Fall 2022 in California

 We arrived back in California a few weeks before the first day of 2nd and 5th grade

 

Kirin found his very own heat lamp on Castro in Mountain View

 

 

We visited the beach and our Southern California family

 

 

Kirin celebrated a rite of passage and lost his front tooth

 

 

After a long hiatus, Navratri in the bay area was finally back

 

 

We hit up sites in the city with a special visitor

We celebrated Diwali,

 

 

Halloween,

 

 

and Christmas at home.

and had a lovely reunion in Lakeport, CA with friends

 

Trains and Weddings

While the main event for our trip to DC was a family wedding, the main attraction for some was getting to ride the silver line for the first time

 

Of course the real reason we were there was to celebrate our family members who were getting married

We also got some sightseeing in at the Library of Congress and went ice skating

 

 

Photo Shoot at the Cactus Garden

 

 

 

East Coast Transit Adventure

After leaving DC, we embarked on an east coast tour while our belongings were making their way across the country

Our first stop was Sunil's alma mater, which we arrived at by Amtrak and NJ Transit

We then spent a nice weekend with our New Jersey family before heading to the mother of all subway systems in the big apple

 

Our next stop was Northampton, MA where we went kayaking, played hide and seek on a mountain and raced on a track

 

 

Our next stop was Boston where we relived our youth, saw the sights, took a respite from the heat at the Boston Public Library, and met with old friends

 

 

They even had a mini Washington monument!

 

 

Our last stop was New Haven where Milan made a new friend