Our friend Saroj Bhate kaku has this beautiful garden of roses and other flowers created and maintained on her bungalow terrace and at ground level as well. She has won several awards from Sakaal for her garden. She spends lot of time in creating and maintaining this garden. Apart from roses there are several varieties of Mogra, chapha and many other varieties of flowers!! All photos clicked on July 12, 2011. Enjoy the snaps here.
Long awaited AamhiMitra GTG finally happened on March 12 and 13th, 2011. We met in Hotel Ashok in Matheran. Although our get together was of short duration, we enjoyed it thoroughly. Avinash, Sanju B, Sanju K, Satish and Rajesh came from Kalyan side while Makarand and myself joined from Pune. We missed company of Ulhas and Ashish who could not make it for this GTG. Click pictures alongside or here.
This trip is from our engineering college days. It’s close to our heart! A year before, we cycled from Mumbai to Pune but that time, we did not carry any camera. To commemorate 1 year of Pune Cycle Trip, we decided to once again go up the ghat up to Karla. The same team from last year – Rajan, Ashish, Sanju, Mohneesh and Vallabh – completed this cycle trip. We stayed at the same MTDC Karla resort room A-47 that we stayed in Dec 83 as well! These snaps are clicked by Ashish’s Agfa Click 4 camera.
Sanju came with his family to celebrate arrival of new year 2011. He came on Dec 30th. Makarand also joined us with his family to usher in 2011 and to say goodbye to 2010. We generally chit chatted and enjoyed meeting with families after long time. Gauri made delicious vada pav as last dinner of 2010. Sandhya brought chocolate cake for all of us. Our kids danced and generally had good time in each other’s company. We certainly missed other members of AamhiMitra. Click the pictures alongside or click here to view the snaps.
We celebrated Diwali in Pune this year. Eesha and Tanvi had vowed not to burst crackers this year as they are bad for environment and many times are manufactured using child labor. Anyway!, here are some pictures from the joyous occasion.
We celebrated Tanvi’s 9th birthday in our home – without calling friends etc. Tanvi enjoyed her day by having burger, gulabjam and chocolate cake plus rumballs from Copper Chocs.
Many from our famous group “AamhiMitra” met on November 20 in Ashish’s house. We had great time in eating, playing and chit chatting together.
See the perfection these boys have achieved. Something that we can’t even dream. Seeing is believing! I do not think that it’s camera trick….
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See the perfection these boys have achieved. Something that we can’t even dream. Seeing is believing! I do not think that it’s camera trick….
It has been our practice since last 6-7 years that we usher in new year with friends. This year was little different as four of our friend’s son/daughter were appearing for SSC exam. Due to this we dropped idea of grand scale year end bash. Sanju Badhe could squeeze in 3-4 days that gave some refreshing break to Vidisha who must have been pretty bored with all study and no play. He came with family to our house on December 31st. We then got Makarand and family to join us just for 31st eve.
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We recently went to Manali Adventure Camp through Nature View – An organization run by Sangram and Shraddha Soman of Badlapur. The trip was from May 19th till May 31st including train journey. The overall group size was about 40 consisting mostly of kids in the age group of 5 till 17 years. There were few middle aged like us and few senior citizens. We gelled well and it was really enjoyable break for all of us! See our photos from the trip here.
