Vacation

Hats off to all those who travel from the US to India for 3 weeks vacation, every two years!

The long flight is very tiring as it is and travel with the kids make it doubly tough! We frown for the time taken for the immigration to collect bags.

Out you come, catch a cab and get home. The jet lag will trouble you for a week at least and for kids, it will take more time.

Next two weeks, one at mom's place and the other week with the extended family, that's it! Its time to get going.

In between, if we take kids out, you have to explain why there's so much of dirt on the road and why vegetables are available like this in the open with their accent and though at times, we feel bad why our country is ike this, we don't do anything about it and move on.
Its not our duty anyways as we have our rich, American life waiting there.

From the time you unpack the gifts to repack with anything you need, like medicines, with hugs and byes the vacation gets dissolved into thin air! I look silly to people when I cry leaving my Home!

End of the stressful vacation, again to the boring 21 hr flight back home, the same stale food in flight to the minimum two hour wait for the immigration check, baggage collection, to the void busy lives with no purpose other than vitamin M, the memories of home, mom made food and snacks will make us crave for the next vacation which is 2years away! We cannot frown for the wait times and maintain that pleasant smile all the time when we await immigration and answer all their questions with utmost politeness.

All the savings made in these two years will goto travel expenses. All that's green is not really green!

-Vishnupriya