Saturday, January 16, 2010

First Visit to the Temple

My family went to the temple this afternoon for my daddy's friend Yudistir (Gabriel)'s wife's Hindu baby ceremony. Can't remember what it's called, but it's a puja you can do when the mama is seven months pregnant. I got there and ate upstairs before falling asleep through the whole puja and the aarti. I didn't really see the deities because I slept all the way up until we left and my mama took me out of the sling and put me in the carseat. I had a nice nap, though, listening to my daddy play mridanga while Gabriel Uncle led kirtan. It was a lovely, calm, sparsely-populated event for my first time at the temple. Hopefully next time I'll actually catch a glimpse of the deities. Pictures, forthcoming.

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