Anticipation

There is great excitement in our household. Tomorrow Ariana arrives to stay 3 months with us. It will be nice to have a Coop staying with us, they are such good family friends and we love them to bits.

Ariana is going to be right into an assault of the senses. The day after she arrives we are invited out to some friends for a swim and lunch. These are the friends we first made in Bangalore, our local meat seller (butcher, but he does not like that term). They live in a gated community with a pool. It's a little bit of luxury for us to visit them and it feels like utter bliss to submerge ones self into water when you have become accustomed to bucket baths. They then want to take us out to eat at a restaurant. Mmmm, Yummy.

Later on that evening, we have been invited to a baby naming ceremony. Apparently there will be about 500 people present. We do not even know the parents or the child but the grandfather is the local ironing wallah in our area and we let him store his wagon/trolley at our place each night so he does not need to wheel it all the way home each night.
We feel really honoured (ranked), haha, inside joke)to have been asked along. They are a Hindu family and we have no idea what happens at these ceremonies but I guess we will soon find out. Might be time for me to buy a sari and get out the toe rings. This is exactly the sort of reason we have been wanting to meet people in our community and to form relationships. We want to mingle and be a part of peoples lives... Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Baha'i. How can we be a light unless we are out among it?