Wedding Day

Tahlia and I are just off to the wedding. Aren't we beautiful?


It was about a 15 minute walk to the wedding along the side of T.T.K Road. It was I presume peak hour as it was 9.00am.

Tahlia got all the looks.

When we arrived the entrance was set out with a flower arrangement announcing the wedding.

An Indian wedding is both a celebrationion and ceremony. All of it fun with everyone talking and moving around.

Dhashi and Ananth's relatives were great to us and explained each stage of the ceremony.

And again there was eating all through the day. At one stage Tahlia was whisked off to eat by one of Ananth's relatives. They were keen to help us understand the culture and explain the food and order of eating. The food was served on banna leaves and eaten with our right hand.


The last part of the ceremony was in the early evening. It was fun as they played games and sang to one another.

Yes, we've seen it, Ananth the singer and dancer!



What a privilege to have been invited and able to attend Ananth and Dharshi's wedding.

Chennai - Monday

We had a lazy day today. A walk around the hotel neighborhood and then a rest. Mid afternoon we caught an auto rickshaw to Elliots beach. Once again we had our pictures taken with some locals (at their request). It seems I'm coming out as my alter ego the TV Wrestler and Tahlia is loved by all.

We left the beach and then spent an hour wandering through the local neighborhood. We were off any map reference but Tshlia still managed to do some more shopping.

And yes, we bought Sophie another present.

I've booked some train tickets in a sleeper carriage for 15 hour trip Thursday night to Kerala State city of Trivandrum. We are only wait listed at this stage but we'll see what happens.

We are so looking forward to Ananth and Dahshi's wedding over the next couple of days.