Weekend Saga
This was the best weekend i have had since coming here.
Friday evening
Dinner followed by a movie - "Anger Management". Minitaure cinema halls, multitude movies, funny people.

Saturday
Drive to New Bedford The drive was glorious with breathtaking views of the New england landscape.
Trees wearing coats of crimson, scarlet red and greeen leaves was a feast to our eyes.
Beautiful houses surounded by neatly mowed green lawns is something you don't get to see in India.
For a minute, Vivek and I felt we should just stay back here.
Backyard sale along the villages bordering the Mass Pike was prevalent throughout.

Reached New Bedford at 11:00 a.m. New Bedford, a coastal town of Massachusetts is the No. ! commercial fishing town of the Uniteed States.
Jeff and Deb had invited Bill and the both of us. Jeff joined us at the flat. He stormed into the parking lot on his magnificent Harley Davidson.
I had never seen and touched a Harley..i understood why Vivek loved it so much. He went on a ride with Jeff that afternoon on Harley announcing to the entire enighbourhood that Harley was on a roll :). Deb just hates it.
Jeff and Deb were so hospitable that i really apprecitaed it.

BoatingFrom the flat we set out to the harbor to go on a boat ride like never before. It was my first ride. Jeff owns a 40 ft boat. He took out his boat for the first time this season. The sea was turbulent that morning and i rocked and rolled from one end to the other on the boat. John, Jeromy and Ashley - Jeff and Deb's kids along with their friends wnet on the ride with us.
Their parents felt helpless while they sweared, smoke and drank. My first up,close and personal encounter with a typical American family.
Slightly shocked initially, felt sorry for the parents.

Weddings Saw 3 weddings. Beautiful brides clad in crystal white flowing gowns with veins. I don't know what they call them perhaps the bride's party - all the girls dressed in lavender gowns.

Dinner at Davy's Locker - Famous for it sea food and the crowd that throng it. We waited for an hour and half before we got a table. After reserving the table we went to the fort nearby. No comparison to our Red fort or any of the smallest forts in India.
There was a woman wailing at the sea shore by fireside. I asked Jeff why she was crying. He told me "Lets go and fin out".
Jeff jokes a lot that i never took him seriously. But as he approached the lady i hada feeling he was going to ask her why she cried. And He DID.
She said she could feel the spirits. Her friend was dying. Jeff sat by her side for sometime and he was glad he wnet upto her.
We left the place after sometime to Davy's Locker - to find we had to wait another 30 mins before we got a table.
We had our first meal standing - candies candies and candies. They were good.
Vivek and I had leaves of all trees and plants for dinner, that we would never have touched in India. It had a fancy name - Caesar salad.
The others relished their sea food - salmons, shrimps, lobsters and voodoo special.

Rock n roll
Jeff coaxes Bill into sleeping on the boat. Deb jokes he would be rocking and rolling the next week.
We sleep at the flat.

Sunday
Breakfast at Mary's - mmmmmm. Experience was good. Ate something i haven't had for 20 years :) Will remember Jeff flagging the waitress for jelly and she ignoring him :)
Whaling museum - Has the largest ship model in the world. also houses the biggest blue whale's bones. Got gifts for Jeff and Deb.
Drive to Newport - Seeing the mansions - summer houses of the RICH from New York was worth the 45 minute drive.
Dinner at JOE's - Great.