Festive time

Diwali in US doesn't seem like the one we celebrate back home. Of course we have friends here but I do miss my family back home. All the shopping, burning fire crackers (not just watching them from a distance like in US), eating faral (chakli, chivda and all other sweets) and most of all, being with your family. Yet, we put up lights on our patio and I made some sweets (didn't turn out as good as Aai does but I tried). On Diwali day we went to the temple and later we were invited to a friends place for dinner. After some nice dinner we all sat down to play boggle. Its an interesting game, somewhat like scrabble with some different rules. Then we also played some dumb charades. Meeting up with friends did feel like Diwali :)