No idea what to do...
parents at home with sister busy studying for exams...
Only time pass - SUN TV and KTV and endless eating at the hands of amma!
1 day trip to Houston and Galveston
Notable things - The visit to Meenakshi temple for the nth time.
-The Swaminarayan Temple and the beautiful vegetable festival there
-The fruitless search for a decent Indian restaurant to eat in Houston
-Settling down for Cicis Pizza for lunch at around 3 pm
-The ferry ride at Galveston - One thing that everybody enjoyed.
-The senior citizens coffee at McD - 34 cents which no one would feel being taken for a ride.
Thanksgiving day...
A desi get-together devoid of the turkey!
Potluck dinner with Ranga's dessert being the highlight.
Antaakshari-More Hindi songs than tamil!
Black Friday...
Preparations started the day before
-Looking into all the newspaper ads for relevant deals
-Making a list of things and each store's "SWARGAVAASAL" timings.
-Bestbuy Circuit city at 5 am...Kohls at 7am...JC-Penny if possible..
-At around 11pm on thxgvg day,a round around the shopping complexes to gauge the crowd.
-Already a couple of chinky guys camping at bestbuy/circuit city.
-Shwetha and I deciding to camp at circuit city.
-A comforter,pillow,water bottle,orange juice taken
-Unbearable chill at around 0*C.
Circuit City
Swarga vaasal opens at 5am.Rush inside to get all the things.
-Laptop sold out in a few minutes.
-Coupon already acquired to get the 42" HDTV.
-Standing in line to buy it and suddenly find 3 or 4 people barging in front of me..
-Finally ending up losing the last TV
-Not losing hope...getting to the next circuit city..
-TV sold out there too...
-Great disappointment..
-Browsing the internet at Circuit city computer.Finding a comment in fatwallet abt the Sears Price matching opportunity.
-Rushing to the nearest SEARS which is 10 miles away.
-SUCCESS!SUCCESS!SUCCESS!
Smartly getting the SEARS manager to pricematch their 1800$ TV to the 700$ circuit city price...along the way getting 100$ off for the PM and 10% off for using SEARS card.
WHAT A DAY!!!
Along with this..things bought were - Garmin c340 GPS,Sony Bravia home theatre system!
The next 3 days...its freezing cold outside.Remaining locked inside the house watching TV TV TV!
If time had life,it should consider itself killed very badly by me in the 9 days thxgvg holidays!
-Raapi
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