Hello Hello – And welcome to our world this month !! 

News Flash : Manasvi Noronha is born on 19th September

And , in case you need us to explicitly say it …. she proceeded to take over our lives !!

Her pictures are in the process of being posted onto Flickr .. so go take a look at Ms.Cutie!!

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Hey you people! When was the last time you did something creative? Stepped out and took pictures? Sketched a funny thought? Painted your walls red or plucked flowers to create your own bouquets?  Try out some of these cool activities and let your juices flow… and don’t forget to share with us if you did create something fun! 

• Blurb: Publish your own – travel, photography, professional, blog or baby book – a fun way of sharing your expressions. Great gifts, souvenirs or coffee table books… Check out what we’ve put together:

• Moo:  These moo cards are very cute… you can make sticker notes, business cards or note cards… with your own pictures … designs and text!

Stupendous, breathtaking , beautiful – yes – all of those things – and when you do get there you will most probably end of adding awe inspiring, though provoking – and smile inducing !!

Yup – somewhere between the search for the right lens and the handkerchief to avoid the sulphur – the mind suddenly stops and begins to make sense of what one is seeing. This park , if one may call it so – is composed of millions of acres . It is a giant volcanic caldera – or a collection of them. It is alive – the mud boils , the geysers are faithful and almost everything is constantly evolving. Yup – just like Patagonia – the earth is alive here too and it tells you so!! And as with all such places mother nature seems to have sprinkled her colors liberally !! Definitely a “go back and camp” location that we will visit again!

We had the absolutely rare pleasure of seeing all the animals the park is home to – grizzlies, wolves , bison, elk  – etc etc – they all seemed to have decided to be kind enough to put on an appearance. Gosh – we even saw a bald eagle !

Yellowstone, like every reserve or protected zone, is a humbling experience . Its the kind of place to visit with the ones you love . As you watch the sun set over Hayden Valley , or drive through Lamar, or smile at Old Faithful , or focus the lens on Morning Glory , or hope that the bison will coming straight at you will swerve , or get wrinkles from staring through the viewer at that oh so elusive wolf – you will find yourself marvelling at the world – and as you realize how fortunate you are – the hugs that will follow will make for a trip to remember !!

We had Mom & Dad with us – and we cant hold the smiles as we remember the trip :) !

Las Vegas … Sin City ?!! What happens here stays here …. yeahhh its all been said and written so we will avoid repeating it . Vegas continues to rock … Bugsy would definitely be proud and if the Corleone family really managed to muscle in, then , well – that was obviously Michael’s best idea ever ! Now if only someone could devise a way to do something about the smokers !!

We started our trip rushing from the  house warming at Frank & Carol’s . Somehow our best trips have always had that one common characteristic , the great rush!  Zumanity , which was to be the “risque” part of the trip turned out to be -ummm – lets just say – not as elegant as we had been led to believe. The shopping , as Rupa confirms , was a cut about the rest – as was the food!!  We particularly liked the Asian fusion restaurant at the MGM Grand – lots of veggie options ! And oh yeah – did we mention the best haircuts of the year for both !!

We liked the little cobbled streets of Paris and Rupa even  managed to stage a pretty decent vertigo act during the ride up the Eifel Tower!! And oh –  the crepes were decent!

And since I finally  managed to win something  – Vegas stays on the list of desirable weekend diversions !

Interestingly the first day of every year provides for a beautiful reason to celebrate… our anniversary. This year was a special one… our first and also the day we discovered we are adding a new member to our family!!!

The celebration… Greens - cute (veggie) restaurant at the bay in San Francisco city… lovely views, great food and music and … the beginning of yet another journey…