Festival of colours

Today is Holi (होली), the festival of colours. It is widely celebrated in India and everyone is throwing colours / paints to everyone. When you go to the street you end up completely coloured. Camila and Melissa went playing Holi and this is the result.

One Act - 'Remember?'

Camila submitted her play 'Remeber?' for the Manhattan Repertory Theatre SPRING ONE ACT PLAY COMPETITION 2011.  They love the play and would be thrilled if Camila would participate in their competition with her production. Very good! What to add?
Camila also arrived in Mumbai, so now we are all together!

Spring break

Melissa's spring break started. For two weeks no tennis and no school. She achieved some remarkable academic results. Her average scores for both Spanish and History are around 100%. For Spanish that's no surprise (she likes it and it's already like that for the last one and a half year) but it's very, very good. Melissa's explanation for History is: she got tired of the complaning of her teacher and decided to study it seriously ... What to add?
Her teacher English explained us that 'she has not read or studied much this quarter. However, she tests well and thus is doing okay'. Again, not much to add.
Oh yes, she arrived in Mumbai yesterday evening, and we like that very much!

Going WILD

Sunday we traveled to Guwahati in Assam, the North East tip of India, behind Bangladesh and close to China and Burma. It's a long way from Bombay; first flying to Calcutta and then on a plane to Guwahati, total trip of about 5 hours. In Guwahati IDBI Federal has a branch which we visited. From there we drove (another 5 hours) to Kaziranga National Park, the place in the world to spot the rhino in the wild!

Early Monday (5:30 am ...) we went off on our safari; spotting the rhinos from the back of an elephant. And we saw many, even with babies. After the elephant safari and breakfast we went on a jeep safari. It was marvelous! Many, many animals we saw like rhinos, elephants, kingfishers, swamp deer, water buffaloes, pelicans, otters (we spotted a group of about 15), eagles, etc. etc. The only animal we missed was the tiger ...

park entrance

only wild cat I spotted ...

on our way with Rahul