Hindu Temple

Hi,

I am continuing my last post. I was telling you about my visit to Scottsdale. After reaching our inn, we relaxed for couple of hours and then decided to go to the temple first. A temple is a place of worship for Hindus. The timing for the temple was 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., so in order to not be late we left our room at 5:00 p.m.

Following the directions we had downloaded from the Google Maps, we reached the Hindu Temple Of Arizona, which is located at N Hayden Road, Scottsdale. On seeing from Outside we were doubtful as to whether this is a real temple or not, but as there is a saying that 'do not judge a book by its cover', so it turned out that our suspicions were wrong.



It was a Real Temple and there were two priests, the idols of Gods were very beautiful. I took the pictures of them. We both prayed to Gods and offered coconut, and then after our pictures and prayers I took some more pictures, the main purpose of taking pictures was to show our families in India that there really is a Hindu Temple in US. I know there are lots of temples in US, but our families doesn't know that.


This was about our visit to temple, more in next posts.

Visit to Scottsdale, AZ

Hi Friends,

This weekend was really fun. We went to Scottsdale. It is 222 miles from our place. It took almost approx. 4 hours to reach there. Scottsdale is 20 miles from Phoenix.It was hot there, 100 degrees Farenheit. We went there driving in our own car. I drove the car till Gray Mountain, which is 35 miles from my place. I drove at the speed of 55 mph, which is very slow as compared to the speed limits, but it was too much for me. We started our journey on Friday at 9 o clock in the morning and reached our destination at 1 p.m. I had made (lots of ) sandwiches in the morning, which we ate during our journey.

We stayed at Best Western Inn, which is a really good place, the room was clean, we had refrigerator, coffee maker and hair dryer in the room. There were bath robes for us and service was good too.

We stayed there for one night and went to lots of places. The day we went,that is Friday we went to Hindu Temple of Arizona, Tandoori Times Indian Restaurant and Chapparal Park. On the next day we went to Bombay Bazaar, Delhi Palace Indian Restaurant, and Old town Scottsdale. I have lot to tell about each of the places I visited in Scottsdale, and that I intend to do in the next few days.

One thing I want to say is that going to Scottsdale was very rejuvenating for us, we went to lots of places there and enjoyed a lot, we liked the town very much. It was hot but very green.

I will tell you about exciting events of my journey in my next posts, so keep checking.

Take Care

A Great News

WOW, Few hours back today I got a very good news,yeah it's about my parents.
They got their Visa ,infact Green card for coming to U.S. It's really good. I was always worried about them as after my marriage there was no one to look after them, but now since they are coming to US, they can live with hubby and me or they can live with my brother and his wife (Bhabhi). SO, Now I won't be worrying.

They called me and informed me, my father said," your mom is coming to America", I was thrilled. I am really happy. It's a day to celebrate.

They will come here in November as they want to enjoy their last few months there.

Living in a small town

If you live in a small town, you know how it is. People know about each other.
So the news that I am learning driving is in the town, everybody knows that, even those who have not seen me driving. The lady across the street was saying to my husband one day, "Is your wife learning to drive? I think you should go to a parking lot and let her practise, this is how I taught my son to drive."

Then other day lady living in the corner house was saying to me, "Are you learning to drive? You are driving very good."

Then one lady who is my husband's colleague was saying, "Is your wife learning to drive? I saw you both yesterday and saw her driving."

The news is in the town, which has made me very conscious about the whole thing.

Well, I have learnt driving a lot I say 40% and my husband says that it is 60%.


I am still working on it..

Going Green

I love to grow plants and want to have a beautiful garden. I have roses in the frontyard, but my backyard is empty. Yesterday, my Hubby and I, were discussing how this summer we can work on our backyard and grow vegetables, fruits and flowers there.

I told him we can buy plants from the nursery in Flagstaff. I have been there once, and it is really nice, there are different varieties of plants there.

It was decided that since we are not going to visit India, we will make our house greener.

I think it's a wise decision.



The above picture is of my little rock garden taken almost an year ago. We went to India last summer, so all the plants dried up and when we came back, I was so sad for my plants.


If our plans work out may be we will have lots of good plants soon.

I am scared

Yes, I am scared of driving at very high speed. Yesterday we decided to go to Red Lake which is around 30 miles from our place. The difficult part was that I had to drive and on highway at 65 miles per hour. Although I agreed to it but I was not confident, well began my journey with 45 miles/hr and maximum I could do safely was 55 miles/hr. . The Road seemed so narrow that I was scared all the time that I may enter the other lane, meant for cars coming from other direction. I managed half the way but after that I told my hubby that I can't take any more. He tried to pacify me, and told me I am doing perfect and I should be confident, but I told him may be later I will try, so I stopped the car at side and my hubby brought us back home.

I am not feeling good about it, but may be I need some more practice and more confidence in myself.

Every Rose has a Thorn

You might be thinking that yesterday I was so happy, but now I am talking about thorns, yeah life is like that. I was enjoying the rain , so yesterday Hubby & I decided to go to town (Flagstaff), to do shopping eat dinner or lunch and enjoy our holidays of three days, it's a long weekend, as it's Memorial Day on Monday.

In the morning, as hubby checked the car, he saw that one of the wiper blades was not moving, I mean passenger side blade was working finely, but the most important driver's seat wiper blade was refusing to move. It was raining, so we were in a big trouble.

Well, Hubby Called some people to know who can fix this, but since it's a weekend, many shops were closed and being new to town has its own problems. We went to the Auto Repair shop of our own little town, the man checked it and said something like whole belt has to be replaced, it will take half an hour and $59.00 for the repairing.This news made me sad and he said he can do that on Monday.

Now what we could do, we decided to check in some more repair shops about the price and all, so we went to the town in rain with one wiper blade working.

We looked at different Auto Repair shops, One person told he will fix a nut for $25 and then he will see what else has to be done, we were not satisfied so we went to another Nationwide transmission, he said he will charge $40 for just looking at the problem and then he will tell what is the problem, at this point I was exhausted. I wanted to get it right no matter how much it costs, we went to Wal-mart for shopping, there my hubby asked a staff member about solution to our problem, he told may be we can check at Jiffy Lube, while I was shopping, my husband went there and they told let them see, and the person there tightened a nut, and it started working , when my hubby asked how much he needs to pay, he said nothing, it's free, my hubby thanked him, and he came back to Wal-mart and told me about it, I was happy,relieved and thankful to that guy.


Then we enjoyed our shopping, ate at Pizza Hut, and came back around 11 p.m.

That's the story.

It's Raining

Wow, it was raining yesterday. It was really surprising, as in past 18 months of my stay in Arizona, it rained for the first time. We (Hubby & I) , enjoyed the rain yesterday, we went to post office and grocery store in the rain. It was after one year we were seeing the rain. Last year in July, when we were in India we saw it.

So, excited by the rain, I took out my new umbrella to flaunt it.

It was really good, walking in rain and smiling at each other. The good thing was that it was not raining very heavily.

I love the rain, but now living here, it has become more precious since it is so rare.


Well, rain meant no driving practice for me, it's okay, once in a while I can allow this.

I love you rain, come again soon !!!!!!

Win a Flowery Bag

Hi,

As I was browsing through the various blogs, I came across this contest by Phat-woman . She is giving a beautiful flowery fabric bag to the winner of the May Contest.



Hurry up,the contest will end on 31st May'2009.

Rules of the contest are:

Rules:
1) This contest is open to everyone, anywhere around the world.

2) This contest starts today, Friday, 1 May 2009 to Sunday, 31 May 2009.

3) Multiple posts are allowed on single or multiple blogs, as long as you leave the right post links. The more posts you write, the more chances you'll get to win!
4) The winner will be picked using random.org.

5) The winner will be announced on Monday, 1 June 2009 (Malaysian time, +8 GMT).

6) Please DO NOT COPY my post as part of your text, except for the rules. Otherwise, you will be disqualified.


One more thing, there are 5 consolation prizes too, chosen by random.org.


I have said enough, so go and check the Ramblings of the Phat and take part in this contest and if you are lucky win a good looking fabric bag.

All the best.

Do you want a Ride ?

Do you know what I am doing nowadays, it's exciting, it's scary and unbelievable for me. I am DRIVING nowadays, yes I am learning to drive and I am almost there. I mean now I can drive.

You must be thinking what's so great about it. Everybody knows how to drive and I am a bit old learning at this stage of life. Well, you are right, but If you see the things from my perspective then it's a big deal. I am from India , where father's are too protective for their daughters, so my father too, never let me try to learn driving, he thought it was too dangerous for girls and he didn't want me to get hurt.



I really am thankful to my husband, who is helping me to learn driving and letting me drive, sometimes I get mad at him and sometimes he gets mad at me, then later everything is okay. The result is that I am able to drive , yet with a lot more to learn and practice to become a skilled driver.

Thanks to you all too for listening to my boring life details.

Summer 2009

It's time for the Summer Break,so my hubby and I are busy making plans to go somewhere for vacations. We are excited to go to India but the only problem is costly air tickets $2000 per person, and we have to think a lot before spending so much money, we keep wishing that prices will go down, but no hopes there.

We miss our families and they too keep asking us as to when we are going to come, but we have no answers.

So, if we are not going to India where should we go? I want to go to Florida-- the disney world adventures. Will you believe that living just 65 miles away from Grand Canyon, we have not been there once, while we have been to Californis, Las Vegas which are so far away. Procrastination, yeah we know it is so near that we can go anytime, the result that anytime has not come even after 14 months.

If you can give me so great ideas for vacation, I will really appreciate.

take care folks.