Long-awaited London Pictures...

Hi everyone,
thank goodness the SLT/Metropolitan mess is finally over and Nisal, being the darling he is, fixed my hard-drive so finally i can upload pics from our trip to London...

the main reason we went to London was two things, one was for baby items.. Sri Lanka does sell most of the stuff you can buy there, such as Avent stuff but you can never really truly be sure of the quality plus the price is cheaper there.. believe it or not.. and the second reason is, Nisal had some work to do there...

Our first week was moreorless trudging up and down Oxford Street, sightseeing at Mothercare!! haha my credit card company must be thrilled with the extra business.. but we bought a lot of interesting stuff and believe me - i never thought babies need so much stuff... haha and this is just for the 1st year :-) crazy... we also met up with some old friends - Eunice (who i havent met in ages... i think we havent seen each other in 2 years), Rajat (same as Eunice) and we met some of Nisal's friends, who i hadnt met before - Priyesh Patel (who is getting married in June, we also met his fiancee) and Stuart Barnaby - both really nice people.. of course, we met up with Hassan and his delightful parents.. They hosted us an amazing spread - roast chicken, lasanga, salads, even curry.. it was just divine...

we also caught up with some films - Hot Fuzz (done by the same guys as Shawn of the Dead) and Blood Diamond.. we also went to a play with Clayton, another friend - Dancing in the Streets.. i highly recommend it - esp. if you love 60s Motown classics like Nisal and i do :-)

We did a lot of work during the two weeks we were there - Nisal and i also maintained a small flat when we were there.. and i discovered to my surprise, Nisal can cook curry!! haha it was yummy too.. hehe we feasted!!

However, we did miss out on seeing our friends Priyanga and Christoph who just recently had a baby girl, and we missed out on seeing my friend Sonali, whose number i got literally two days before we flew back..

in terms of the pregnancy - i think i am finally settling into some sort of size now so i dont feel as big as i did the previous months.. plus my food cravings have died down.. apparently you are supposed to put on, as asians, a total of 15 kgs MAX and me - haha - dont even ask.. basically the doctor told me i have enough weight for 5 babies.. i think he was exaggerating and i told him i was overweight before the baby too.. and he was like then u are definitely too high...haha but thank God, i dont have diabetes (u apparently can get that if u are overweight/pregnant) and my blood pressure is low.. so he is puzzled but happy.. end of the month, i am doing another scan so i will post pics... promise... what else is going on in my pregnancy - oh, we joined a prenatal class which is fun.. a bunch of preggy women and their husbands and we basically discuss with a midwife what goes on in the pregnancy, how to push, how to breathe, relaxation techniques, whether to do a c-section or a natural, pain relief (yes!!!) how to take care of the baby etc. it is quite interesting and the midwife knows a lot of stuff... we also visited the hospital (joseph fraizer) i want to have our baby and it is so nice.. its like a colonial hospital and the rooms are massive.. plus the nurses who were there were so friendly.. nisal actually got scared i wanted to stay on there.. hahaha but honestly, i was happy... and the birthing room didnt look as scary as i thought it would be... and yes, i am feeling more kicking now.. haha its not painful as some people say but its quite gentle... the baby responds to music too - like if i play 60s music, baby gets all excited but i was told play more classical music because it improves the baby's brain!!!

thats all for now :-) will post when i get new scanned pics