Neeraja and her very very nice family who put me up ! Her brother had gone out.

Doesn't differ much from Singapore eh? Except for the emptiness I guess. This photo was illegally taken by the way :P

Guruuuu ka poster! In Canada! :D :D We very nearly went to watch it but tickets were tooo expensive! So ended up watching Bond instead. (Anyway Namratha's got the Guru DVD now so YAY! One more session of cooking and movie!)

AMC Cineplex. We went to watch Casino Royale (finally!). Ooh WHAT a movie :D

Delectable variety of SWEETS! :D :D :D

Where we went for lunch. A-1 restaurant. Fully vegetarian Punjabi cuisine. DELICIOUS! And beside the restaurant, a whole lot of Indian shops! Scarborough has HUGE population of Chinese and Indians. In fact I think I only saw 4 or 5 Canadians here!

Shirdi Sai Baba

With Neeraja's family at the Shirdi Sai Baba mandhir in Scarborough/Markham (can't remember which area! But they're both suburbs of Toronto).

At Chicopee Ski Resort. That's our poor instructor who had to rescue me about 50 times in the one hour that he taught us! Skiing's definitely not my thing.

Hailin, Margaret, Artemis and me, just before our skiing lesson. Our instructor was really nice and offered to remove his gloves and take a photo for us! Note how my skis aren't even parallel. Hopeless! Couldn't even STAND properly on them!

Namratha and her awesome family which let me stay there for 2 nights and make me feel so at home! :D

Singing Maara Vairi (Naasika Booshani raagam)

All the kids! Wide range of ages, and ALL of them sang solo!

Swetha, her sister Sandhya, Nammu and me :)

Happily discussing prior to Maithreem Bhajatha

The Mridangam player - Mr. Prakash.

All of us singing Jagadanandakaraka

Gomathi Maami, the leader of the Pancharatna Kritis, me, Shailaja giving Sri Thyagarajar's history, and Namratha

Subramaniam Maama doing the deevaardhanai. First time I saw/smelt karpuram since I came here! I LOVE the smell!

2 Maamas chanting slokams.