Last weekend Heather and I ventured out to the state of Kerala in India for our 1st wedding anniversary. Believe it or not we actually got married 1 year ago. Sorry you couldn’t make it, we’re still planning on holding true to our promise to have one rad wedding for everyone that’s reading this (assuming we actually know you) to be invited to. And two days from today marks the date that I moved to Ukraine. So we’ve been married a year and I’ve been living outside of the US for 1 year. Crazy talk.
So like I was saying, we went to Kerala which is in the even further south of India.
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February 10th, 2008
Bob
Heather, Prachee, Charles, Erin (a co-worker visiting from the US) and myself all jumped in a minivan and ventured out to Mysore this past weekend. We visited some palaces, went to a temple, stayed at a hippy hotel (lots of dweebs on yoga retreats) went gokarting! and overall had a fantastic time. Keeping consistent with the past many weeks of blogging you can find pictures with commentary at the link below.
Pictures from our trip to Mysore
January 14th, 2008
Bob
Everytime Heather and I head out of town for a weekend we joke that we’re going to come home to a house with no power. The reason we have this legitimate fear is that in the 6+ months we’ve lived here we have never ever received a power bill. Now some of this is expected. We live in a brand new housing complex and, as you all should know by now, India isn’t real quick on setting up infrastructure. We even got a memo ~2.5 months back saying that “bills are coming soon.” We never got a bill.
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December 30th, 2007
Bob
Is anyone else wondering where all the wacky of this blog went? I must admit this place used to be somewhat humorous but now its just annoying blabber and pictures. Right? Some boring blabber from our 2 weeks in Sweden and Ireland are all in the photo slideshow for this trip. There are a record setting 27 pictures in there.
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December 29th, 2007
Bob
Merry Christmas to you all. Heather and I wanted to take a little bit of time to say hello and merry christmas from ~6,000 miles away. We’re spending our christmas in Ireland. So it’s not that we’re showing you our tail feathers for Christmas, it’s just that flying from India to Europe is a whole lot easier than flying to California.
I figure we should give a little proof of life to you all. Here it is:
How do you like those awesome “helmets” we’re wearing? That picture was taken in Kiruna, Sweden which, in case you were wondering, is by far the northern most place on earth I’ve ever been. It was not warm.
Right now we’re hanging out in Limerick, Ireland. It’s a little cold out and foggy at night but during the day the tourists are all elsewhere and we’re privileged to views like this, almost entirely to ourselves:
We’re looking forward to June when we move back to the US and we’re already looking forward to next Christmas when we’ll get to see all of our friends and family during this special time of year.
Merry Christmas, with lots of love, from Heather and Bob.
December 25th, 2007
Bob
Just a few days ago we landed in bangalore, 2 suitcases lighter than when we left SFO, but back in Bangalore in one piece. We were visiting in the US for 2 days longer than 2 weeks and managed to keep ourselves nice and busy. We attended 3 thanksgiving celebrations: one with family, one with friends and another with family. We ate a bunch of pizza (I really wanted pizza), I drove my car (oh, the car, I love the car), we went to Las Vegas, I went gokarting and we even saw a handful of our friends.
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December 8th, 2007
Bob
When we first came to India it was for an interview trip to kickstart hiring here in India. At this point Cisco had announced its intentions to acquire us but all of the paperwork hadn’t been finished. This meant that every time I went to a Cisco building I had to get a visitors badge. On most days this involved going to the receptionist and telling her my name. She then types this into the label-making software and the label making machine prints out a sticker. It’s a very professional looking “Hello, my name is …” sticker. Every time I got a badge printed it was a different name. Everyone’s favorite came the day my California accent was interpreted as saying “VEZNAT.” Many months later, these past few weeks, I went in search of a new domain name. veznat.com it is. So now you’ll start getting emails from veznat.com and I hope you’ll all start updating your address books.
November 8th, 2007
Bob
Friday was a holiday here in Bangalore and we took advantage of the 3-day weekend to get out of town. We left the house a bit after 7 and began driving from one end of Bangalore (Whitefield) to the other (Bangalore-Mysore road). At 7am on a holiday it took ~90 minutes to get from one end to the other. Driving inside of Bangalore is always an adventure. Mixing cars, trucks, buses, motorcycles, rickshaws, pedestrians, bicycles cows and dogs on one road is… just like you’d imagine.
Here’s another one of those slideshow-like things for you all. I managed to find 36 pictures that I liked! Dig in.
Pictures from Bangalore to Ooty
October 21st, 2007
Bob
Everybody sing “Let’s get retarded (ha), let’s get retarded in here….”
Last night we ventured out to the palace grounds here in Bangalore with a bunch of fellow expats to see The Black Eyed Peas perform. I must say it was a really great show. We had a great time dancing to the crazy music, and for the price of admission, we were incredibly close to the stage.
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October 17th, 2007
heather
This morning I’ve decided to do a little bit of “live-blogging.”
Reporting to you live from my car as I get driven in to work. Hopefully
it gives you a bit of a taste for what I see each day. The traffic today
will be far lighter than usual as I’m coming in early to make an 8:30
meeting. Here we go!
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October 16th, 2007
Bob
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