life before india.

last night was a lovely lovely night. dana and i had late night sweet craving, and using the things we could find in the guest house attempted to make cookies. the final result, full of crushed up chocolate cereal and leftover peanut butter and other random refrigerator things, grilled on the stove, were a nice substitute for peanutbutter chocolate chip hashbrowns. delicious. we also discovered our basement, and decided that the value of sleeping in a space 10 degrees cooler was worth the cost of sleeping in a creepy space full of boxes and old toilets. today we made an extremely frustrating trip to the train station, but after some help from an equally frustrated woman behind us, we got tickets to go to mt abu next wednesday, its a hill station, which equals beautiful greenery and cool temps and hikes and such, and i booked tickets for mumbai, which i had to push back a day due to full trains, so heres to spending my 21st birthday in a 2nd class sleeper! woo! oh yea, and the highlight of my night was a call from anna, and we had a long talk. things are hard when you are away from everything that is familiar for so long, even more so in anna's case than mine. it is important to know what you value in life, and its even more important to never take those things for granted, and make sure you show all those people and places and things that they are important to you. you only have so many minutes here, so why not spend them always making everything you love happier?
and you want to know what makes everyone happy?

Picture montages!

Here are some of my happiest days with my favorite people.

thanks for being my best friend for the last lifetime sister.


for realz.



and you too brother!



and you too dad and granpa!



ok, well i was going to add more pictures of the rest of the crew that make me happy like hot cocoa and snow days, but it looks like my internet is losing steam. so i'll write more soon.