The many disguises of Super Surya

So who watched the presidential debate last night? Dalip and I watched it, at least most of it, and I must say it only reaffirmed my belief in Obama's ability to to lead this country out of the chaos that the past 8 years have dragged us into. I found so many issues with McCain's delivery and the substance of his answers. For one, he kept hounding on the fact that Obama did not get it and that Obama did not have enough experience but I do not understand, not even in the slightest, how in the world he can make that argument when his chosen one for VP met heads of state for the FIRST time in her life last week in New York City. Second, I really had a problem with McCain's delivery. Dear lord! Someone please tell me why McCain could not look at Obama even once during the ENTIRE debate? It was ridiculous. Lehrer first tried to engage both candidates and then Obama caught on and tried to engage McCain by looking at him and even addressing him directly by his first name. Now, normally if someone calls you by your first name and tries to talk to you you, at the very least, you look at the person while responding. Not a single glance. I had a serious problem with that. If McCain cannot make eye contact with an opponent who is a fellow American then what exactly is going to be his behavior when face to face with a head of state of a "rogue" nation? Just a little thing to make you go hmmmmm.

Now, onto more pleasant throughts...Surya!!! So as you can see, Super Surya has many disguises, sometimes as an Indian princess and other times as a Chinese martial arts expert. The first two pictures of Surya are from 2 weeks ago when we were going to an Indian wedding reception and the other two are from Dalip's congratulatory dinner when he got his promotion. We have been a busy bunch lately. The video below is from our trip last weekend to the Shedd Aquarium here in Chicago. We went there with our dear friend and Surya's appa Madina (aka Mushu). We had a blast! It was a VERY rainy Sunday last week and poor Dalip stood outside under an umbrella waiting to buy tickets to get in. About 30 minutes later we had tickets in hand and were off to explore the multitudes of fish the Shedd has to offer. This particular video is of Surya and Mushu in the Reef exhibit. There was a neat tidal pool that Surya was quite fascinated with, for all of 5 minutes, but interested none the less. Afterwards we met up with Sanjay and went to Chinatown for some good Chinese food. I was a little hesitant about going for Chinese since I wasn't sure how Surya would like all the spicy food but you would not believe that she ate EVERYTHING. The restaurant served something very similar to Kimchi, which was very spicy. Surya was asking for it and I figured, what could it hurt to let her try it. Low and behold she loved it. Mind you her eyes watered every time she put one in her mouth and drank boat loads of water but she definitely came back for more. She is on a spicy food kick these days which I am hoping will last but you know these guys change from day to day.

Well, I am off to watch a movie with Dalip. Please feel free to comment on any of the postings or to just come and look at the pictures or watch the videos of Surya. See you soon!