Picnic

This years Valentines Day was spent attending a picnic at ICRISAT thrown by the expat association.The picnic had a variety of people...
Couples...Friends... Families...

People of all ages...

From many different countries.

There was a festive feeling in the air...As we played games...

Relaxed...

Got creative...

Ate yummy food...

And hung out...With good company.

Some of the highlights of the day included:
A 'treasure' dig in a big bucket of rice. (The kids all left with their pockets full of candy)

Our famous sari relay...

The men are wrapped in a sari and have to carry a bucket on their heads down the field and back without losing the sari.

Some of the men had their saris wrapped so tight they had to hop down the field like a mummy.
We had a refreshing ice cream bar with fruit, syrups and (of course) ice cream.

The ICRISAT campus is such a peaceful place. We really enjoyed listening to the birds and forgetting how hectic Hyderabad can get.

Here is Aiden asking when the food will be here?

Here are some of the kid playing tug of war.

Against some of the adults.

Here are some friends enjoying some good conversation...
While the kids had a water fight.

Here is a family enjoying the green grass, and the warm February weather.

The men were challenged to play a game we call, "The Coconut Bonk".

A coconut is tied to their waist and they are to swing it without using their hands... they are supposed to hit a loose coconut on the ground rolling it closer to a finish line. The first one with their coconut over the line wins.

The men wanting to share the humiliation decided it was only fair to have to women compete also.

I hope everyone had as much fun as I had.