Seasons Greetings

Thanksgiving is the time to meet close family and friends. We initially had planned for a get-together with some friends in Chicago. But our plans did not go through since those traveling by air were unable to get tickets on time. So we decided to make our own plans to Wisconsin Dells, the water park capital. I've been there many times before but since it was winter time all outdoor water parks were closed. We picked 'Chula vista resort', a resort with an indoor water park. We did our bookings and left Milwaukee on thanksgiving day. To our surprise the resort was full. Lots of families were actually spending their time at the resort than having the traditional home cooked turkey dinner. The resort was nicely decorated for the holiday season. We had a fun time in the lazy river and all water slides. The resort served a breakfast, lunch and dinner buffets. Since we spent most of our time at the pool we had lunch and breakfast at small food joints near the pool itself. I was so tired by the end of day & was ready for the dinner buffet. It was a little pricey but the food had a lot of variety.. all kinds of pizza, meat, pasta and fish. We left the resort the next day. On our way back we saw a truck full of dead deers and realized, a week before thanksgiving was the deer hunting season. I had to get a picture.
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Christmas is here... Christmas was special this year. Rahul's cousin joined us the weekend before Christmas and my brother stayed from Christmas to new years. So we both got to know a member of each others family :)
Since both my guests were students and don't really go in for a home cooked meal each day, I decided to cook some nice home cooked meal for them. The recipes for the following days were Uppama, poha, appam with shrimp curry, vegetable biriyani, aloo paratha, veg hakka noodles, chicken masala, masala dosa etc..hope your mouth is watering by now...hahaha. So was theirs & they both relished it. We played uno at home, walked some trails at whitnall park, enjoyed some stand-up comedy at comedy cafe, visited discovery world museum by lake Michigan and visited Chicago too.
It was holiday well spent with family :D