Trip to Philly

Last weekend I went to Philly for a weekend trip. Hemal was also there from Virginia. As usual the flight to Baltimore was delayed by 30 min. which was not bad. At the airport Hemal was there to pick me up. He did get some food stuff from Taco Bell for drive to Philly. We reached Philly around 11PM. And then the usual TP started. After a long time Shantanu had a chance to cook some delicious Dosa for us and let me tell you.. He has not lost his touch for dosa. Because of some mishaps in supply chain… there was no chatni but the sambhar was equally good.
Meeting friends after a long time (1 month) sleeping is the last thing on mind….. (Except for golu) so we went out for a drive in the pouring rain… drived through some famous downtown streets of Philly…. Had a coffee in between from a gas station and came back home around 3:30-4:00.
The next day in the morning I had to go and visit some of my relatives. So we got up by 9:30 and then my uncle took us for a coffee at Dunkin Donuts…
We all got together at a Mall around 2:30 and did loads of shopping but at a very cheap price. Then headed to Baja Fresh.. A Mexican restaurant. It was my first visit and I really liked the Mexican food over there. Especially the fresh salsa bar out there.

By 5:30 we were heading towards Jersey City for Garba. Reached at Himanshu’s (Kaushal’s Brother) house by 8:00. Everyone got ready and left for Garba which was accutually only 15min away but we lost our way in the confusing streets of jersey and it took us 1:30 hrs to reach there…
The atmosphere in the hall was magistic… for the first time I heard so loud music in USA… and so many Indians together….. The ABCD or migrated girls were looking stunning… but as always said never fall for a chick in garba as all look sexy…..
Chintan was also there along with his parents so it was kind of a small get-together at Jersey. We did some cool garba steps … and especially Golu had great fun with some unknown girls..(Read the next blog for its details!!)
After garba we came back to Himanshu’s house and had some nice gujju snacks at 3 in the night..
Headed back for Philly at 4:00 AM and reached at 6:00 .. Hemal as always had a nice snoring sleep in the car… We all went to sleep and got up at 12:00…
One of our seniors at Buffalo Viral was there and we all went out for Punjabi lunch at Jaipur.. The food was amazing.. and can’t even dream of such Punjabi food in Buffalo.

Then visited Shantanu’s office.. The area is a well developed Business Park... and its very senic…Came back home... did some tp and I and Golu headed back for Baltimore...

In all it was a fun filled and satisfying trip.