Come Monday mornings and I am cooking up interesting answers to the ‘What did you do over the week-end’ question. See, sometimes Geeta Ben comes a-cookin’ and we get some good old Hindi action. But really nothing that can make people sit up and say enviously, “Wow! How jealous I am of your captivating adventures over the week-end?!”
A friend of min had blogged about the very thing a few years ago:
http://am-kicking.blogspot.com/2005/10/how-was-your-weekend.html
I suppose “Ate more than usual” sounds far less glamorous than “Holidaying by the lake nestled in the mountains and having a moonlight dinner to boot. Oh and did I mention that my brother did a 100 km cycle race in the pouring rain in London? No? Well…not only that, my brother-in-law ran a half marathon in New Delhi in the stifling heat. But you know – nothing else!”
Yet, that is what happened. The week-end saw different continents bear the brunt of the exercising streaks that seem to have hit different factions of the family tree. We cheered them on in spirit (and food) and applauded them as they each achieved their targets, while we holidayed in the mountains.
Congratulations to the cycling and running brothers – we are all proud of you.
I sloped around with an Ask-me-about-my-week-end look all day and folks ignored me. Years of being at the receiving end of boring answers does that I guess. When I could bear it no more, I decided to come online and blog about it. You see the window of opportunity for a question like that is so slim. By Tuesday morning, you are already pushing your luck. On Wednesday, if some one asks me about my plans for the upcoming week-end, I plan to deftly steer the conversation towards the last week-end and give them the works.
Nourish-n-Cherish 
How was the weather? 😛
BEEP! I can use that question to divert answer towards mountains being hot as well…
Thanks!!! Yep, I purposely limp a bit and if someone asks, its ‘coz I’m a bit sore from all the cycling you know. Waiting to see how long I can pull it off! 🙂
Hee hee – good plan! Also,”When I cycled……” is a good opening!
LOL, I was going to write along the same lines . With a baby, weekends are just sleep, recover from last week get ready for next week :–P Sigh! Does it get better?
Cognrats to your brothers!! Can life ever get as exciting? ;–D
Yes it can – give it another year SK. I did my half after Kee was born remember? TRavelling becomes a lot easier too when they are around 2.5 years..
wow!! You sure do live!! 😛 What plans for the next weekend?!! 😀
Actually, this week-end we are just recovering from last week-end. You know last week-end, we had been vacationing in the mountains…..
Lakshmi my wife decided that she is going to run next half marathon. She feels it is easy to run half marathon than taking care of the husband post half marathon 🙂
hee hee hee – i am sure she loved the carb load taking care bit before the race – that is my favorite part 😉