Meet in the Midddle

Here's some pictures from our recent jaunt to London over Spring Break where we spent a lovely (despite the weather) week with the grandparents! 

part of the changing of the guard ceremony

Looking up and down through the floor of the Tower Bridge walkway

 

Should we go on the walking tour we had planned? 

I said no!

Kensington Palace

Matilda!

Tube art

Kashi...Banaras...Varanasi

Happy Holi!

me with the landlord's daughter

Neighborhood Holi block party

Neighborhood Holi block party...no one left uncolored!

At the office on Thursday (Chotta Holi...'little Holi' or the day before)

Spring

Flowers in the park across the street

Local cardboard recycling pick-up. They bicycle around the neighborhood shouting 'kalabariiiiii!' (or something like that)

Almost Local

This is the government office where I applied for my Aadhaar card (Indian biometric ID)

Outside the government office

Also outside the government office were women protesting in the street...I believe for lack of salary payment. 

One fine student

Maker Space project (cardboard arcade games) she made with her friend

India Week at School

AKP reaction to Indian food :-)

A marigold explosion

 part of the Holi celebration at school

Katnis?

Holi

Holi is the festival of colors, celebrating the start of spring. The actual holiday is next Friday - where going outside is fair game to get color-bombed - but school celebrated this afternoon. It's a school wide water gun and color throwing party...pretty cool!

Stateside!

I'm back in Seattle for 2 weeks of work...took some deep gulps of fresh air and even got up to the mountains. Check out me and Mt. Rainier below!

Scenes from around town

Me in my Indian get-up, mask and all...

Our awesome driver

A snap of the fresh chicken shop at one of the local markets

Can you see Justin in there shopping for veggies? INA local market

There's some cool art on the buildings in the neighorhood next to ours. If you look closely, the shadows from the installation spells words on the side of the wall...

Another interesting art piece on the wall of a building nearby

Guy transporting yarn outside my office