Do you care if it rains today …?

28^th November 2010 :

It seemed to be as early as 6 am and there was no sun light when I saw through the window. Getting back to sleep my eyes rolled on to the clock ticking 9.15 am. I said to thyself “Why can’t you take a Sunday break … you monster”.

The next thing brain alarmed …” huh... Should get up otherwise it would get late for Costco.” Unaware of all these triggers , Sravan was diving deep and deep into his dreams when he heard the most irritating voice on the earth .That was me saying “Sravan lets get up we need to go to Costco , it would get late “.He was like “hmmm…paanch minute …hmm”. Me waiting for a external force to get up couldn’t convince Sravan to get up .Slowly after few minutes Sravan says “hey is it 9.30 am already ...?” … Denying the authenticity of the ever awake clock, I said  ...” well that is what the clock shows”. We watched dad slowly walking into the living area from his bedroom. Well dad must have thought within “let the bacche sleep, they must be tired “.Breaking his thought was my greeting “Good Morning Pitashree  ...” Hard to hear was his response back to us “Go.. od.. Mor.. nin.. g”

Now that everyone was awake, there was a demanding traffic situation at the rest room. However, each one of us kept ourselves busy with certain activities to minimise traffic. We decided to have early lunch than having breakfast, as the diet was not proper the previous day. It was quite a challenging task to decide on the recipe, as there were many vegetables available at home. I had to prepare lunch as early as possible , hence decided to make Tomato rice .While I busy preparing tomato rice I asked Sravan to prepare Salad .Mom and Dad have lately started having considerable quantities of salad in their diet. Therefore, we had cucumber, Lettuce, and avocado for Salad. We realised there was lots of Salad and little rice left even after servicing appropriate amounts. All three most proactively said; “well we are done for lunch.” Left with no other choice but propose a deal .I said “well Sravan you have 2 choices, either have all the Salad or the rice  ... I said you could opt for the lesser quantity of rice and I will have Salad.” After stressing his brain for a while, he says, “I would prefer rice than salad.”

While we were figuring out driving routes to Costco, Mom & Dad were separating the stalks of the greens we bought from Dandenong market the previous day. We wanted to avoid the King’s way confusion hence figured out a route from

Burke Street

to

Bakers Rd

then to Dudley and straight to Costco. We could see through the window the Trees swinging in the wind .We asked mom to wear chudidar and dad denim, as this will guard them from wind to some extent. Dad initially was not very excited to wear denim, thinking he can manage without it. He happened to go to the balcony to take the towel, which is when he realised how pinching cold is the wind. Immediately he dressed into Denim and a Roger David Jacket...: P .With the intent of going to Iskcon and capturing lots of photographs, mom resisted to wear chudidar .We convinced her to wear chudidar saying …”With this cold wind, we shall not go to Iskcon …Also Costco is not a place to take photographs .“ Well she wore chudidar and a sweater, but she would not wear the jacket. We carried her jacket in car, just as a back up.

We had to clean the car a little after which we got into the car. Sravan hardly drove for 5 minutes that it started raining and the car was warmer than outside. The windshield of the car was fogy and we had to do something as we were in the middle of the road. We tried to put on the AC it dint work; we tried to turn on the heater it does not seem to be working. Finally, we pulled down the window glasses to let the cold wind enter and this time it worked. We reached Costco and as usual, it was hard to find parking. We saw a car coming out of the parking slot. Although not sure, if we will be successful in parking our car in that slot, we waited .Once the other car vacated the slot, we aimed at parking. Sravan did a good job and soon car was perfectly placed in the slot. We took the Costco trolley and waited near the jumbo lift as mom wanted to avoid the wind while walking through the front. We just had 1.5 hrs before the shop closes and we had to show everything there. Slowly we kept walking across the aisles when I wanted to capture photographs. I could not capture single snap of mom as she kept hiding herself behind dad or sravan. Just because she was in chudidar, she did not want any photographs of her.

After shopping for a while, we sat for five mins in the dining area. We found out a simple way to Iskcon and we headed towards ISKCON. We reached there at 6 pm .By the time we could figure out a car park; mom & dad had already entered the temple. We parked the car and went inside the temple. It seemed to have usual strength of people .We enjoyed the prasadam and Kirtan there .Mom participated in gopika dance while kirtan was full on. We started at 8pm to head back home and we reached home at 8.30 or so. It took us close to half an hour to arrange all the groceries we got from Costco.Next day being Monday all of us ensured we sleep early.

Not very inclined to go to work the next day, we thought within  ...” Can this Sunday be tomorrow as well…”.Not left with any more options or excuses we surrendered ourselves to the goddess of sleep .