A jet set weekend in Mumbai!

Last weekend was filled with fun and great experiences. (Am a bit delayed in posting the blog so this happened 2 weeks ago...) It all started on Friday when we attended our neighbor Karsten’s moving in/moving out party (also knew the ones moving out of the apartment so a fun combination, though would prefer if they also continued staying here). Espen had his first business trip in India to Hyderabad that same day, and he arrived back a bit later than planned (was nothing more serious than a little bomb search at the airport after some luggage left unattended… Well suppose they are on a bit high alert here now as there has been reports that someone might try a similar 9/11 attack here in India by hijacking a smaller airplane). Well, anyways being India it didn’t really matter that much that we arrived the party a bit late as that’s what most people do.

We had so much fun at the party! Many interesting people from all over the world J Ended up staying until 4 in the morning, which is quite late for me as I usually falls asleep around midnight! Luckily we only had to walk across the road to get to our flat so too easy! We also met a singer, Carlyta Mouhini who invited us to a gallery for a concert she was having the next day. Fun J

So Saturday we did not get up until… Well, let’s just say quite late and it was PM ;) But in time to go to the concert/culture walk we were invited to. We had booked our driver for the evening so that made things easier getting around as the event was a bit away from where we live. I must definitely say I enjoyed my input of culture at the gallery… Very interesting and different from what I usually do. And they even took our photo and we met a lot of quite interesting (and important?) people so who knows, maybe we’ll end up in a magazine or something ;)

After this cultural event, it was time to go to the Swedish crayfish party we had signed up for. It was arranged by the Swedish chamber of commerce and was my first ever crayfish party! Quite something, coming from Norway and experiencing my first crayfish party in Mumbai… We had soooo much fun!! J With matching hats and bibs and of course lots of Swedish vodka and even some smuggled aquavit! They had actually imported the crayfish from Sweden and it had arrived at 13:30 that very same day! Talk about being lucky, would most likely not been the same having a crayfish party without crayfish!

And when ABBA came out of the speakers the success was a fact! Dancing, eating, drinking and having fun – fantastic way to spend a Saturday evening J And so many interesting people, mostly Scandinavians, always fun talking with them about their experiences in India, also many of them lived in New Delhi, Pune and other places in India, really enjoyed networking with them. And when we were ready to go home, it was just to call the driver and he took us home.

Must admit that the Sunday was spent relaxing, watching films from bed. And enjoying a culinary pizza from Dominos together with a coke. But that was just totally ok after such enjoyable days!