After a restless and disturbing sleep, I woke up around 6.45 am, had some breakfast and it was already time to leave. I reached the airport well in advance and checked in about an hour before the scheduled departure. The journey started on time, and for the first time, I did not feel uncomfortable during the early part of the flight - this is usually kind of very topsy, and makes, not only me, almost everyone very uncomfortable. While on air, I read about the Japanese violinist named Midori (meaning Precious Jade,
http://www.gotomidori.com). Owing to congestion in MSP, we had a 15 minute delay in landing - I roamed around in the airport, taking pictures, eating pizza, and enjoying a custom-tastized Star Bucks Lattae. This re-convinced myself that MSP is (actually just it’s parking lot) is much bigger than some of the biggest airports in India. In the meanwhile, I also learnt that one has to pay to use the wireless network in this airport. I tried to get bumped off but the flight was not overbooked! Second leg of my journey too started on time, and I managed to record a video clipping (about 3 minutes) of our flight taking off. An Ithiopian couple were sitting next to me and they enjoyed watching cricket with me - he followed quite a bit of it too! Two hour journey looked like a half hour one but a fifteen minute waiting for a terminal in Dulles looked like never ending.

Nagesh arrived just a few minutes before my baggage came out and we were in home after a five minute ride. I got to eat dosa (not the way I prepare them but the way they ought to be prepared). We spent some time together in configuring the network connection (there were at least 6 WiFi access points in the surrounding area), discussing music, cricket, watching football, basketball, copying music and generalized talk. It felt good and soon it was time for dinner. I got to taste B³ (again, the way it ought to taste) and curd (yes, the actual curd) rice. We watched TV for a while and discussed some more things (mostly remembering the olden days).