Gardening & Food

Maya asked about the possibilities of gardening. I do a little bit. But there really is not much chance. We have a roofgarden, with flowers--I have been weeding some here, but only every couple of weeks. The owners had this planted before we moved in.
There is also a bit of grass up there. Fortunately it only takes watering. And we picked up 4 palms. They came in nice earthenware pots, but unfortunately the wind kept blowing them over. The pots broke, and I had to re-pot them in much larger cement pots--they'll be much happier though.

We also have a couple of other areas where there are plants, outside of one of the bedrooms on the 1st floor, and outside the living area upstairs. You can actually see the upstairs railing, the balcony, and the ground floor grass a bit in this shot. As I mentioned, we got some bougainvillea. This is one of the white ones, with a visitor, we added a bit of red to one, and yellow to the other. The bougainvilleas are now set up one downstairs to go up the outside wall between us and the construction. Manju strung some wire for us so there is somehting for it to grow up. The other is upstairs on the patio where it can provide shade over the door out some time soon...

On another note, I think I may burst from eating this weekend. Cindy went out Saturday morning, so the two of us were left to eat the Saturday breakfast. On someone's request--not mine--we had pooris again. There was a pile of them to start, I didn't get a picture of that, should have, but here is a few on my plate. Second helping, can't say no to Lahlita--she just waits till your hands are out of the way and you get more. This seems to be an Indian Mother thing.

Saturday evening we went to a co-worker's house for dinner. Very nice evening. Met her husband, and his parents. They live more in the south--Koramangala. It took us about an hour to get there and Manju only had to ask for directions and backtrack a bit once. Anyways we were fed there, and brought seconds, and thirds and there was no saying no. So we ate.

Then there was this morning. At the request of our landlords we went to a special kickoff for something sponsored by the Sankey Park Walkers Association. It is a program to improve traffic in Bangalore. There were many speaches by the commissioner of police, the Commissioner of the bus service, a manager from the Bank of India and others. But before all this started we were fed. Not everyone, but the honored guests--ourselves included. Again we tried to say no, but couldn't. Fortunately there was only time for one course...

Then finally we went to Brunch at the Leela Palace for Mother's day with some friends here in Bangalore. Brunch started at Noon, and we wrapped up around 5pm. No need for dinner tonight. And I think I'll have to not eat for a few days this week to make up for all the food over the weekend. All in all the weekend was fun, filled with activities, and the food was delicious, but enough is enough. NO MORE!!

Update: There are some photos on Flickr (for family and friends only) which show some of the things we ate, and some of the people at the brunch, including a couple of pictures of Anna.