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Excited about getting the house possession

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On Saturday, August 7th, we got the keys to our new house for woodwork. This is the moment we have waited for and are very excited to see how the final product will look once the woodwork is done. We visit the site every 3-4 days or so to monitor its progress and it is coming along rather well.

Like most of the new sites in Bangalore, there is Cauvery water and it won't be there till the next phase of Cauvery canal is completed sometime in Nov 2011. Long time!! Till then, we will be relying on the borewell and tanker water.

Abhinav is already excited about the "new" house. He is looking forward to sleeping in his swanky new bunk bed. He is debating whether he would have liked the ladder (like has in his new bed) or preferred stairs to reach the top of the bunk bed. Well, now he has no choice :-)

I have been playing about 45 minuted to an hour of basketball everyday and that is providing me with a very good workout. Yesterday, I played with couple of 10th standard students and they literally showed me how much out of shape I was plus my lack of stamina. I hit few good shots but the aim and strength declined rapidly thereafter. I really need to improve my fitness in such things not just the gym fitness.

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