Our first blog post!
Hi everyone! This is our inaugural post on deeptaandrajiv.com to keep all the lovely people in our lives (plus those people who randomly google “DEPT” and get “Deepta and Rajiv’s blog” instead) informed of what’s new with us, share pictures and all kinds of fun stuff.
This past weekend was just GORGEOUS and jam packed as well. On Friday, we went to Estia, this Greek restaurant in North Beach our friend Jena recommended and ate wayyyy to much. Then it was off to a late show at Cobb’s Comedy Club to watch Hal Sparks (he’s done some TV Work, but he is the short sarcastic guy who comments on “I Love the 80’s”). Hal was hilarious, but his opening act—not so much. We both were actually on the verge of dozing off (it’s a little scary how old we feel these days!).
Saturday we spent catching up on some sleep and a visit to the Mission Bay library next door (who actually has some really good music and movies—from Tegan and Sarah to Fergie…..pretty impressive!). In the evening we celebrated with Aya’s birthday with her and James at several locations—we started off at Out the Door at the Westfield (amazing jicama and cabbage salad), and continued on to yummy margaritas at Tres Agaves and some wine and champagne at District. In true Saturday night form, we ended up back at our house and entertained ourselves with funny YouTube videos. Sunday we went to a good family friend’s son’s rice eating ceremony in the easy bay. For those of you who have no idea what that is, it is called “Anaprasan” —and you should watch or read the Namesake to get a better understanding of it—basically when a kid turns 9 months or so, there’s a ceremony where the baby has a plate of different things (book, money, an apple etc etc) that all symbolize different things and are supposed to be telling of the future. It is unique to the Bengali culture and pretty superstitious—but a very cute ceremony regardless (unless the baby screams and cries which they normally do). Our family friend’s baby touched a gold bracelet—symbolizing a life of wealth to come! Deepta touched the book—which means smarts :)
Hope everyone had a great weekend and is enjoying the weather wherever they are!
