Alright, onto the actual surprises. I'm slowly uploading the videos to youtube. I think I will have two of them done right now, and I'll just update this post to include the third one when it is ready. They take about 30-60 minutes each, but we have to fight over the power converters to get anything done.
Anywho...
So Manik drove us over to Gaurav's parents' house. Apparently he had been there before so he knew where he was going. I saw what I assumed was their house because I recognized the car...but then some random dude was washing it so I figured maybe the neighbor had the same car. More on that later...
So it appears that we are going into the "neighbor's" house, but everyone here has their name along with their house number, and this house certainly said Ravi Jain...so in we went. (Side note, Gaurav's parents have moved since he was last home)
We didn't knock of anything, just in we went. We weren't sure exactly who was home, but Gaurav wandered through and found his dad, who promptly threw (very gently of course) the baby, Taisha, onto the bed when he saw Gaurav. Taisha wasn't very happy about this. Poonam heard Ravi making an excited ruckus about something, so she came down to see. She said she could tell he was VERY excited to see someone, but had no idea who could be there. She was as surprised as everyone else and was also so excited!
She wanted to call Nishu right away, but we told her not to as we wanted to continue the surprise!!
After the hugs and hellos, everyone piled into the car and the "neighbor" drove us to the school.... Ok, so that "neighbor" was actually their driver. Apparently that's fairly common here.
The security guard tried to stop us on our way in, but Ravi just kept saying "Seema Jain Seema Jain" as we barreled through. Apparently we didn't look to threatening because they let us continue. No one knew where Seema's classroom was so we had to look in a bunch before we could find her.
She teaches pre-school so she was sitting in those tiny pre-school sized chairs with some of her colleagues. When Gaurav walked in she shot out of that little-low-tiny-child-sized chair quicker than you would think was possible. They were having parent-teacher conferences that day, and all Seema's parents happened to be on time, so she went and asked her principal if she could leave. She got the Ok and off we went,back home.
Initially we had wanted to wait for Nishu to come home, (Saturday is a work day in India) but once we realized he wouldn't be home until 9-10pm, we decided to stop by his work. Poonam called Nisuh (or he called her...I can't remember) as we were on our way over. He asked what she was doing and she said going for a ride with Seema. He warned her not to do too much shopping!
So we pull up to the bank, I barely have the camera rolling, (I wanted to get it started early so I was sure I got everything) then...about 1 second after I got it on, Nishu walked out of the bank just by chance. He was just stepping outside for a minute and there Gaurav was!
Everyone kept saying that they couldn't believe their eyes that it was actually Gaurav....until they saw me. I suppose I stand out a little bit and couldn't be confused with anyone else in the family!
We were pretty excited that everything had happened almost exactly as we had planned! Which is pretty surprising given that we didn't know who would be home, what they would be doing etc.
Here are the links to the YouTube videos of the surprise moments:
Ravi & Poonam: http://youtu.be/pab3XvXqpDw
Seema: http://youtu.be/Yf6b9uTW2iY
Nishu: http://youtu.be/VHcI0DXx_lc
Anywho...
So Manik drove us over to Gaurav's parents' house. Apparently he had been there before so he knew where he was going. I saw what I assumed was their house because I recognized the car...but then some random dude was washing it so I figured maybe the neighbor had the same car. More on that later...
So it appears that we are going into the "neighbor's" house, but everyone here has their name along with their house number, and this house certainly said Ravi Jain...so in we went. (Side note, Gaurav's parents have moved since he was last home)
We didn't knock of anything, just in we went. We weren't sure exactly who was home, but Gaurav wandered through and found his dad, who promptly threw (very gently of course) the baby, Taisha, onto the bed when he saw Gaurav. Taisha wasn't very happy about this. Poonam heard Ravi making an excited ruckus about something, so she came down to see. She said she could tell he was VERY excited to see someone, but had no idea who could be there. She was as surprised as everyone else and was also so excited!
She wanted to call Nishu right away, but we told her not to as we wanted to continue the surprise!!
After the hugs and hellos, everyone piled into the car and the "neighbor" drove us to the school.... Ok, so that "neighbor" was actually their driver. Apparently that's fairly common here.
The security guard tried to stop us on our way in, but Ravi just kept saying "Seema Jain Seema Jain" as we barreled through. Apparently we didn't look to threatening because they let us continue. No one knew where Seema's classroom was so we had to look in a bunch before we could find her.
She teaches pre-school so she was sitting in those tiny pre-school sized chairs with some of her colleagues. When Gaurav walked in she shot out of that little-low-tiny-child-sized chair quicker than you would think was possible. They were having parent-teacher conferences that day, and all Seema's parents happened to be on time, so she went and asked her principal if she could leave. She got the Ok and off we went,back home.
Initially we had wanted to wait for Nishu to come home, (Saturday is a work day in India) but once we realized he wouldn't be home until 9-10pm, we decided to stop by his work. Poonam called Nisuh (or he called her...I can't remember) as we were on our way over. He asked what she was doing and she said going for a ride with Seema. He warned her not to do too much shopping!
So we pull up to the bank, I barely have the camera rolling, (I wanted to get it started early so I was sure I got everything) then...about 1 second after I got it on, Nishu walked out of the bank just by chance. He was just stepping outside for a minute and there Gaurav was!
Everyone kept saying that they couldn't believe their eyes that it was actually Gaurav....until they saw me. I suppose I stand out a little bit and couldn't be confused with anyone else in the family!
We were pretty excited that everything had happened almost exactly as we had planned! Which is pretty surprising given that we didn't know who would be home, what they would be doing etc.
Here are the links to the YouTube videos of the surprise moments:
Ravi & Poonam: http://youtu.be/pab3XvXqpDw
Seema: http://youtu.be/Yf6b9uTW2iY
Nishu: http://youtu.be/VHcI0DXx_lc
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