The Summer of our US trip & more -Part 2

( I am typing this out on my brand new iPad keyboard [white], newly purchased from NY. Oh the joys of typing…)

Post a brief reunion with didi and jeeju, I set about [with much anxiety] for ATlanta, where our team summit was planned. That flight from Tampa to Atlanta, must have been the worst flight of my life. I got a seat right next to the washroom on the last row of the plane. Throughout the plane ride, the washroom stank. I don’t recall a moment in recent times where i have felt so compromised and wretched. Through that flight of an hour & more I promised myself that never in my life will I allow myself to experience something like this again. 

Atlanta was good, and I had great fun meeting my team there. The long travels from India to Orlando, then Tampa to Atlanta had left me quite disoriented though. Nevertheless, I powered through it to make the most of the experience.

The real madness of the trip began once I returned from ATlanta, to be reunited with Nikhil & Nyra. The shopping missions that we embarked on, left us with a hole in a pocket but a sense of wonder at our own capacity to shop. Nikhil & Nyra were the surprise package- Nikhil shopping like never seen before & Nyra my doll helping mama and masi with makeup and perfume shopping. 

The last of the strip was a stop over in Manhattan. NY was a shock to our senses. It was everything that I had not expected. It was smelly, dirty, busy and overwhelming. Hanging out with Harsh became the highlight of the NY trip.

In all we concluded Nyra and my first US trip with a lot of fanfare and a while in the pocket.