Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Seattle/Vancouver trip

The view of Mt Ranier from University of Washington, Seattle. The fountain in the gardens of the Uni is in the foreground. It is a huge campus of 700 acres. Have to buy a cycle for Anya.
Sign of the times where we meet family in airport lounges. Met Kesavan chitappa and Pappa chitti at Seattle airport lounge.
Karthi's birthday celebrations.
We had an interesting but pretty scary hour in Vancouver. Karthi had lent her phone to Anya and me as we were exploring the city the day after we arrived. Anya lost the mobile in the tour bus. Anya's own  phone had a flat battery. We were in a new city,  We did not know Karthi's address or Vishy's work place name or address. We could contact by email or facebook from a internet centre but did not know if Karthi would check that. The name of the road which is we could remember close to their home was 15km long. Karthi was expecting a call from us. The waiter in the restaurant, learning our plight lent his phone to us. Was racking my brains on how to sort the problem out.
Suddenly out of the blue I remembered Karthi's phone number, thank god she had an easy number to remember. Rang the number, somebody had returned the phone to the tour bus office. Collected it from them and rang Karthi, pretended nothing had happened. Karthi picked me with Uthra shortly after, they knew all that had happened, they let us carry on for a while before they confronted us :)















5 comments:

kallu said...

Nice pics Babu. I was thinking with so many of the family travelling we should be having some photos soon.
I didnt recognise Vishy in his new look, but very smart. And Anya is stunning as ever.Chitti looks trendy in her American togs.Looks like everyone is having a great get together.
The story of the lost cellphone is so scary. Great that your memory still works fine. Maybe there is something to the old way of writing things down :-)
if you have the time, teach Kalai to post on the blog

kalpana said...

nice snaps babu. everybody seems to be having a good time. karthy your house looks good.
always have plan b ready in a new place. and have contact numbers written down also.
advice from the experienced, especially as i was taking sanjay alone i took lots of precautions

goutham said...

tks for ur pics babu, good see all in vancouver

goutham said...

tks for ur pics babu, good see all in vancouver

kalpana said...

vishy looks too mature. dint recognise him at all. vishy use the dye !!!!!!!!!!!