It was great to visit my nephew Nagraj (aka Praveen), his impressive wife Nithya, a foodie who blogs

here

We drove down to Milwaukee through a storm

and a sunset

The next 3 days, we spent in various ways.

Looked at several wildflowers like these Forget-me-nots insects like this Geometrid moth many birds like these Cedar Waxwings insects like this Ebony Jewelwing mammals like this chipmunk and this doe and her fawn we also played for a while! made mischief, lay down with lions, We enjoyed walking around the historic 3rd ward and looking at landmarks like the Art Museum took plenty of photographs pushed ourselves a bit met up with friends from Wisconsin

DnA drove off on Sunday, but KTB and I stayed on as we felt so comfortable with their warm hospitality.

She took us to the local library: She baked a yummy zebra cake to celebrate Praveen's completing 12 years in his job: She had two sous chefs who mainly helped by licking out the batter bowls! She took us strawberry-picking: I made puchkA, the Bengali version of pAni pUrI (and some other stuff that they liked to eat...I'm not an expert chef like Nithya, but I can make some "nostalgia" dishes!)

Antara and Nithya both suffered from strep throat and fever, but still managed to take very good care of us.

KTB made a nice thank you card:

We enjoyed our visit very much, and hope that Praveen, Nithya and Antara come to St.Louis soon, too!