We were debating if we all should go for garba this year or if Ishaan and Gaurav should stay at home while Kavya and I went with friends. Since Gaurav does not like garba too much, he was in favor of staying home with Ishaan, but I really wanted them to come. So, we decided to go this one time and see how the experience is with Ishaan. We went to the Sankara Eye Foundation (SEF) garba in Santa Clara Convention Center on Sept 19th. It was Ishaan's first garba experience and he did very well. He went to sleep on the way to the event and continued to sleep for a while. But the music was too loud. So, he woke up quite a few times.. The good thing was that he did not cry.. although he was not in good mood either. But Gaurav would just hold him and rock him or do some dandia and he would go back to sleep. No fuss - No crying. I was really happy and surprised. I got to do some garba and Gaurav and I also did some Raas (Dandia). Kavya also danced a little and participated in the choo-choo train. So, overall, it was fun. And Ishaan was cooperative enough to give us courage to go one more time this season :)
So, we went to the Bay Area Vaishnav Parivar garba in Fremont on Oct 2nd. We reached little late since it was Friday - So, we got little late is leaving home and then we had to go to Dharti's place for dinner. While this was a much smaller place and crowd, Ishaan did not cooperate very well here. He cried quite a bit and Gaurav had to take him outside the hall and make him sleep. Kavya and I could do some garba, but after Ishaan woke up the second time, we decide to leave. Even though we were there for a short time, Kavya made it to the news (She is in the 3rd picture from the top - wearing orange/brown chaniya choli )
Hopefully, we will be going for more garba/dandia in next couple of years.
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