Christmas in May

We have our first visitor with us for the next few weeks. Sarah arrived early Friday (4:15 am), but without bags. Those arrived Saturday morning.

I mention the bags, because Caden had been prepped by his Grandma on the presents arriving with Sarah in a care package. His eyes lit up when the British Airways people showed up with the bags and he did not take his eyes off them (except when he had to hug Sarah and bat his eyes at her asking, "can I help you open the bags?"). With all the charm he could muster, Sarah finally caved in:

Our cook was also in preparation mode for having a visitor (this seems to be common with cooks here: the portions suddenly sky-rocket and the variety expands significantly). What is nice is that I finally got Lasagna (my first pan in months and months and months); even though it didn't last long. Besides the cooking, we are also looking forward to a number of adventures over the next month and are even tasking Sarah with taking the lead on the final trip planning.

Although there is much happening beween now and the end of the month, these few days have been mostly spent in allowing Sarah to acclimate and to give Angela the rest in preparation of the events for the coming weekend, which will involve her wearing, for the first time ever, a saree.