First few days in US

As a child, I was really crazy about US, main reason being the fact that it was held very high upon by many people around. I have a couple of school and college friends carrying a jansport backpack saying it was from US. And I used to hear a lot of stories about how the life style in America is from a lot of people who have their relatives there, some real and some very highly blown up. America is very neat, roads are very clean, rules are strictly followed, there is a very good work culture there, we can earn a lot of money there - waitress gets a tip of about 2-3 dollars which is like 100-150 Indian rupees. In short, people gave a picture that living in America is a luxury and to most people foreign country means America and only America.. I used to think - hmmm.. Whats with this America in reality? Have to pay a visit sometime! 

As time passed, I forgot about this. Its almost been a week since I landed in California with my family and here are a few things that I noticed about this place. Firstly, the place is vvvvvaaast. It felt that the sky was closer to us than it was in India and also, I could see that the earth is Spherical as in the sky felt like it was merging with the earth in all the direction far beyond. Upon discussing this with Vijay, we suspect that in India, we don't have much of an open space to look so much beyond and that could be a reason for my observation here. Secondly,  there are hardly any bikes on the roads. Sreesikha, my elder daughter noticed this. I was really curious to see many cars with cycles in stands over or behind the cars. Some cars even had small boats behind them in a stand. Its tough to manage around without a car in hand as the city is very huge and there is no public transport to every place. Most of the things here are huuuuuge. The shops are very huge with high roofs. The Onions, water melons, Oranges, Lemons, Potatoes were all of the biggest sizes I have seen so far. I have also seen very small tomatoes and baby carrots. I am just too excited about all the varieties and sizes of vegetables and fruits to worry about the hybridization and where it leads us to.

Most of the places are stroller friendly, which was really good for us. I fell in love with some of the dishes here that we don't generally get in authentic form over there. For Instance, I liked the Bagels, Croissants, big juicy muffins, pan cakes, waffles, huge variety of breakfast cereal, breakfast bars and a lot more. Having visited other countries earlier, I thought its a tough task to survive as a vegetarian away from India. But I was totally wrong. There are umpteen varieties that you could live on. The best part I liked so far is shopping with coupons where you get a lot of discounts! ;) lol

I have a few more weeks to explore the place.. will post by whenever I get a chance to!