Adios!

Hello folks! So this is it! We are leaving tonight. And just to give you an idea of our crazed and event-filled schedule, let me give you an idea of what the next 2 weeks (odd) are going to be like.
25th morning - Reach Mumbai. Meet up with my sister at the airport. Proceed directly to Pune, after stopping briefly at the bride's place for breakfast!

Why Pune? Bceause my grandmother lives there. Maternal. Whom I haven't seen for 8 years. Who has never laid eyes on my kids. I need to change that and this is the only chance. So Pune, it is.

25th afternoon - Reach Pune. Stay at father's brother's place, where my parents would have already arrived. Catch up, hug, kiss, smile, enjoy the jetlag.

26th - Head over to Patti's place, and spend the day with her.

27th - Quick breakfast and head to Thane. June Swan meet awaits.

28th - Catch up catch up catch up. Shop a little. Get some sleep, hopefully. (naaah!)

29th - Head to the hotel near the marriage hall. The whole jing bang family from our side would have arrived including my in-laws.

29th evening - Thambi's birthday celebration coupled with a sangeet. Our version of it.

30th - Rest day. (hopefully). There is now more family to catch up with!

31st - Beginning of wedding festivities. One religious event in the morning, one in the evening.

1st - Wedding!!! And the beginning of the happily ever after bit. Evening, reception.

2nd - Pack up, board the afternoon train. One whole bogey reserved for us. Chennai, here we come!

3rd - Reach Chennai. Settle in. Get busy again.

4th evening - Chennai reception, from our side.

5,6,7 - Manage what little family time is possible in that exhaustive and frenzied atmosphere. We leave in 7th night.

8th - Reach home!

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During all of this, I will not get a chance to log on and publish Thambi's birthday post...so I am hoping the scheduling feature will work well with Blogger. Just to make sure it is working, I am going to schedule this post for publishing in 8 minutes from now. Hope it works!