I had to work most part of the long weekend (labor day). But at the end it had its pay off. One of my very close friends came to Raleigh and visited me. She has this very sweetest kid on the planet, Suraj(6). He is in the first grade and all.
We went to the tour of NC Museum of Natural Science. Suraj was really excited.One thing that he did not like though was being photographed. Poor guy was fed up. He remembered names of all the states they drove through all the way from NJ and throughout the trip he was asked to stand, pose and smile. He did pose for my camera and said that he will let me take a picture but it has to be his natural pose :-p
When we were at the section with birds and animals, I pointed to a small bird and told him "it is an Owl". He goes around points to a big yellow-eyed Owl and asked me if it is the "Mamma Owl" :) It indeed was. I said "Suraj look at her eyes, Owls have extremely large eyes in proportion to the size of their heads. They have big wide eyes and an ability to see in the dark" click to enlarge
Suraj looked at me with a big smile and said "You have much bigger and wider eyes than that Owl" :)
Awwww.... that was the cutest thing anyone had ever said to me... there was my payoff :) (Assuming of course that Suraj did not mean ... I should be put in the museum instead of the bird)
Unless the music teacher who kicked me out of her class in 3rd grade comes back and admits that I am a good singer, I am going to mark this as the best compliment I have ever received!!
Cheers
Sri Seshabhattar
13th September 2009
(Owl photo credits: Bill Frymire)
