Dubai visit

C didn’t cry at the madras airport. She said that she would not stay with Granma and came with us very happily. C was very fine during the flight to Dubai. We reached Alok’s house safely. C spent sometime playing with Kunaal. In the evening after nap, C started crying and said that she wanted to go back to our veedu and see grandma etc. I was afraid that she would not stop and create a big hungama. However, daph handled it well and made C play and diverted her attention.

The next day when we dressed her up to go to a nearby shopping mall (all of dubai was closed and a national holiday was declared because of US President Bush’s visit) C got very excited that we were going to see Varna. (During this whole trip C was eager to see Varna and that was her only consoling thing!) We told her that we were only going shopping and we would have to fly (vroooooooom) again to go and see Varna.

C also tried to play with Kunaal, who wanted to play with us. When kunaal asked for his toy with which C was playing with, C said “no” two or three times but later, was very nice and said “ithu kunaal bhaiyya toy. Avungakitta kuduthiralam” and returned it to him. I felt really bad and wanted to just bring her home as early as possible.

Varna and Jeev came to pick us up. C was happy and recognized varna. When we came home, C thought it was varna’s home. Even after varna had left, C thought Varna was somewhere in the house and would not let us use our chappals, saying that it was varna athai’s!!!