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Prachee’s 20th Birthday in India

Published on September 18, 2008 in Family and India.

Ganesh w Notes18 growing up in Bombay + the last 2 in Bangalore… get it?

Another great birthday party with friends in Bangalore – the highlights were definitely the parrot tarot reader and the Ganesh birthday wishes.  Our friends Tracy Ann and Amit where crucial in helping me set up the party and pull off the Ganesh gift.

At the start of the party, Amit shows up with the “Parrot” Tarot reader guy – basically, he has a parrot which picks out a card from a deck spread out on the ground and hands it to the guy.  The parrot gets a treat, then goes back into his cage while the guy proceeds to interpret the card.  We all had our turn with the parrot guy and since he couldn’t speak english we had some serious translation going on – maybe a few things got lost between the Kanada, Hindi & English.

Thank you to all of you who sent Prachee messages for her Birthday so they could be tied to a statue of Ganesh so that he may help them come true.  You can see the picture of Ganesh with all the wishes – thanks Tracy Ann for putting the gift together.

Happy 32nd Birthday Prachee!

Photo Album Link: Prachee’s 32nd Birthday

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US Home Leave 2008

Published on June 20, 2008 in Family, San Francisco, Travel and Vacations.

Santiago hangs out with his tioSpent a couple weeks in the States seeing family and friends. This time we bounced between Washington DC, San Francisco and San Diego. I guess we are of the age that our friends, siblings, cousins, etc. are all having babies… so lots of baby pictures in this album. As per my previous post, I did become an Uncle recently, so this trip was also an opportunity to meet Santiago – barely a few weeks old when we arrived!

DC was lots of fun as usual… we met up with some of Prachee’s friends from College and since Saurabh was in town it meant the whole Date family was in one place for a change :) . Vivek & Shobha also hosted a small party for their Maryland friends who were not able to attend our wedding (in 2005). So I think with that last party, that concludes our “wedding functions” – 2.5 years later!

San Diego was chill as usual. Saw Becky & Ron plus had the prerequisite Uruguay-Argentina BBQ lunch. Claire & Jackie came down from LA and we had some quality family time.

Album Link for Facebook users: US Home Leave 2008

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I am an Uncle/Tio/Kaka!

Published on May 16, 2008 in Family.

I am an UncleToday I became an uncle or tio (Uruguay) or kaka (India)! Santiago Gabriel Vignoles was born in San Francisco on May 16. Mom, Dad & Santiago are all doing well. Get to see him soon when we are in the US at the end of the month!

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