We had a good night's sleep and got up at 7 AM since we had to go to Omprakash's house in Staten Island at 10.30 AM for the Devarasamaradhane.
Narasimha had got up early at 6 AM and was busy helping Varsha to prepare Masala Dosai--- I presume Greeshma had kind of told them that this was a favourite dish of mine.The Dosais were delicious with the onion-potato palya and chutney. Narasimha left for Office at 7.30 AM and Varsha was working from home that day.
Sachin dropped Sudha and myself at Staten Island which was barely 20 minutes from Edison.Omprakash and Sudha have a lovely sprawling home and the Devarasamaradhane ceremony was held in their basement with a Kannada speaking shastrigalu in attendance.
All the cousins were already there and we had a gala time together.We came to know about Vinayaka's specifications for a girl and will try to help him find a girl that meets these specifications.
The function over, we were treated to a delicious habbada oota which was catered locally.There was payasa, obbattu, majjigehuli, saaru and then anna and mosaru.
We were also treated to villyedhele--- a lovely pan.
After lunch we all got together and had an impromptu music session. Sudha sang a couple of songs and Anupa did a choreograph of "Darshan dho Ghanshyam" to Sudha's singing with Sudha showing a few dance steps.
A good time was had by all. Sachin and Madhura dropped by to pick us up and then we went back to Varsha/Narasimha's house. The road goes past Newark Airport and it was nice to see aircraft stacked one behind the other and awaiting their turn to land.
In the evening, we just sat and talked. Narasimha is an engaging conversationalist and we had a lovely meal of baby carrot/soppina huli and anna mosaru.
Narasimha has a massive collection of DVDs ( both films and film songs).We saw the film songs of Shankarabharanam and enjoyed them. At 10PM, we suddenly decided to go in search of Coldstone icecream.We drove for about 40 miles in two cars only to find the outlet closed. We settled for Baskin Robbins instead and enjoyed our ice creams and returned home tired but happy at around 12 midnight.
That was the end of Day 21.
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