sad news

R just found out this afternoon that her eldest son's health is not doing so well. She leaves tomorrow morning to go back to the city that her family lives in. He is having problems with his throat and can no longer swallow liquids or substances. The doctors in her home city can no longer do anything for him, they have advised the family to take him to a larger city that has a better hospital. She is very distraught as any mother would be. Please keep her in your thoughts.

Organizing SHMORGANIZING...

My dilemma with organization is that I am an outside the box thinker...I look at a box and think 'Hey whats that box doing there?' oh its an empty box,' ' silly empty Filing box.' You see my files just chill outside the filing box, and sometimes they are in creative jigsaw piles or you find creative things like magazines and such intermingled with the files. Filing is way more fun when you make it into a treasure hunt or jigsaw puzzle.
Not everyone appreciates outside the box style...Z adamantly wants files inside boxes. We have compromised over a lot of differences. Because we have only been married for 3 years we have only had enough time to compromise on about 12% of our differences. Which is a lot better than America's Congress. Anyways Z's compromise to filing...he does the sorting and filing and I get to make the file tabs. I make some pretty stinkin creative file tabs :)

less stress

Z has a new toy. It is a racket that has an electric charge that one swings at mosquitoes. Every evening Z is reducing the bug population in Curryland. I tried it a couple of nights ago, I have to say watching mosquitoes die by electrocution was a great way for me to work through some stress and frustrations.

Curryland Top Places to visit

In conjunction with my previous vacation and my love for travel TV shows I have come up with Curryland top places to visit. This is also in hopes to persuade many of you to spend your precious vacation time with us :)
1) Amber Fort

While you are there you can enjoy an elephant ride. Lucky was the name of our elephant...he splashed us and himself with his own slimy spit numerous times during our ride.

2) Jaipur City palace

3) Wind palace

4) Monkey temple - Pretty place but unfortunately inundated with monkeys.

5) No trip to Curryland is complete without seeing the Taj.

*Special thanks to the talented travel photographer Dr. Carlson.

TAJing it up!

It was Z's 4th trip to the Taj so we had to make it a little more interesting for him :)

Curry land memories :)

Exciting Times!

Vacation time is winding down and I am so going to miss our dear friends when they leave. Man did we have some adventures, laughs, and fun! Pictures are soon to come :)