Notices by Sean and Ruchika (bunvoyage17@mastodon.social)

Yesterday, we celebrated our 10th anniversary of when we started dating seriously. It was over two icecream cones on the back porch of our former boss’s home (residential campus building) that we carefully thought through what if we do end up being together years from now, which date would we want to remember and Sep 17th it was!

#anniversary #couple #couplegoals #togetherness #life #beautiful #marriage #love #food #goodlife #celebrate

Sean and I cherishing our us-ness by doing our fav thing: flaneuring! Taking a scroll by gorgeously greenish-blue riverwalk in Chicago, buying Indian snacks from @chiyachai (bhelpuri)! We were taking pictures of each other, when a very kind and happy stranger man asked us if we wanted him to take a picture?
#chicago #couple #pregnancy #togetherness #marriedlife #marriage #love #life #ChicagoRiverwalk #kindness #weekend

More photos from yesterday! Before getting started with shopping, a little fika break at Ikea. No cinnamon bun but an apple cake will do. A little fortification before climbing the mountain!

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#MardiPatisserie #Fika #Coffee #Ikea #Shopping #Cafe @coffee #Chicago #Pastry #Cozy

Friday Night Board Game - tonight is it is Mandala, one of our favorite 2 player games!

#boardgames #boardgame #brettspiele #brettspiel #friday #fridaynight #gamenight

Happy Indian Independence Day! 🇮🇳

This is a photo of us at Amber Fort in Rajasthan in October 2018.

India is such a large, beautiful, and diverse country. You would need a hundred lifetimes to explore its depths <3

#India #IndianIndependenceDay #Rajasthan

*"A secret, a secret, she says she's got a secret*
*A secret, a secret, a secret kind of secret...*

*She's aching for to shout it to every daffodil*
*And tell the world about*
*In fact, she says, she will*
*She says, she says..."*

WE ARE **ECSTATIC **TO SHARE THAT @seanbala and @dohappybelove ARE EXPECTING A DELIVERY AROUND THE END OF OCTOBER THIS YEAR. 1+1 = 3

*If this isn't love the whole world is crazy*
*If this isn't love I'm daft as a daisy <3*

#Parents #Baby #Expecting #Parenthood

At Pritzker Pavilion for a free concert of Bela Fleck, Zakir Hussain, Edgar Meyer with Rakesh Chaurasia and The Arab Blues hosted by the City of Chicago and the South Asia Insitutue.

The concert has not started but we are excited - the music is a fusion of Western and Indian classical, along with Americana - will report back!

What a great way to start the week 🤗

#Chicago #Illinois #Music #Concert #Classical #Hindustani #Americana #Bluegrass #Summer #BélaFleck #ZakirHussain #EdgarMeyer

Some pics of good food from the day - chai toast with badam and kishmish in the morning and sambher with BOTH idly and dosa. A good day for the taste buds 🤗

#Food #FoodPorn #Indian #IndianFood #GharKaKhanna #SouthIndian #Chai #Dosa #Homecooking #Cooking #GoodFood

Dahi Vada for an afternoon snack! 🤗

#Chicago #Indian #Afternoon #AfternoonSnack #IndianStreetFood #FoodPorn #IndianFood #GharKaKhanna #StreetFood

We went out for shopping on #Saturday. Met up with a friend and went to Thaliva Indian Kitchen in Park Ridge. It is a place we have been wanting to go to for a while after someone told us it some of the best South Indian in #Chicagoland. We got dosas and finished the day with a South Indian Filter Coffee. Worth a trip out on the Metra!

#Chicago #illinois #ParkRidge #Indian #Restaurant #IndianFood #SouthIndian #Coffee #FilterCoffee #SaturdayNight #Saturday @coffee @chicago

Our porch is finally clean and now summer can unofficially begin! ☀️🎉😎

#Chicago #Spring #Summer #Saturday #Relaxing #Happy #Cleaning #Joy #Peace #Quiet
#Home

We wanted to make something good tonight so we made Gatte Ki Subzi together ❤️

A Rajasthani dish made of besan dumplings in yogurt sauce, it is one of our favorite dishes.

We are thinking about doing something more elaborate like this every Thursday evening as a way to start the weekend a bit early (since we both have WFH on Fridays 😊).

#Cooking #Food #FoodPorn #Homemade #HomeCooking #India #Indian #IndianFood #Rajasthani #Vegetarian #MastIndia @mastindia @mastoindians

Finally got around to making the Paneer last night. Decided to make Paneer Khurchan. One of our favorite restaurants in Chicago (“Essence of India” in Lincoln Square) does it really well and we were craving it. It is not a dish you often see on a menu here in the US.

#Cooking #Indian #IndianFood #IndianCooking #IndianCuisine #Paneer #Punjabi #Dinner #FoodPorn #Chicago #Illinois #LincolnSquare #Homemade #Food

We wanted to have a quiet afternoon and so we went to go to Kapej Coffee on the Brown Line. It is one of our favorite places in #Chicago with some of the best #coffee in the city. In fact, the owner was roasting coffee fresh in a little alcove off the counter.

@dohappybelove made a #painting and @seanbala started #reading “The Lost Cause” by @pluralistic - a wonderful Sunday!

#Illinois #Art #MastoArt #Books #Bookstodon #SSF #Solarpunk @coffee @bookstodon

And here is a video we took at the water’s edge at the River Walk along the North Branch of the Chicago River this morning. It was such a great way to start the morning!

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#Chicago #Illinois #River #ChicagoRiver #Nature #Ecology #River #Water #Saturday #Peaceful #Walk #Walking #Plants #Video #SilentSunday #Urban #UrbanWildlife

Went for a nice walk today at the river walk next to the northern branch of the Chicago River. This was probably the first good summer-ish day we had so we wanted to get out early. So lucky that we live so close to such a beautiful spot. What is amazing is that this greenery is a relatively recent effort to restore the ecological health of the Chicago River.

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#Chicago #Illinois #River #ChicagoRiver #Nature #Ecology #River #Water #Saturday #Peaceful #Walk #Walking #Plants

Watched “Love at First Sight” on Netflix tonight. Very simple and sweet - a nice cozy date movie for a cold Friday night 🤗

Made us reflect a bit on when we first met. This is probably the earliest photo we have of us from almost 10 years ago. Our boss took it before we had told anyone we were dating. Maybe she had a hunch? ❤️❤️❤️

#Marriage #Love #ThrowbackThursday #Family #Memories #Couple #Netflix #LoveAtFirstSight #Watching #Dinner #Together #Cozy #RomCom #Film #WatchingTonight

Adventures in Urban Wildlife from last week.

@seanbala saw the butterfly on the way to work. @dohappybelove saw the GIANT snake in Millennium Park on her lunch break.

#Chicago #Illinois #Animal #Animals #Butterfly #Snake #Snakes #Unexpected #Urban #Street #StreetPhotography #Wildlife #Wednesday

On our trip to Austin in March, we went along the Colorado River and made our way to the Congress Avenue Bridge. The bridge is home to the largest urban bat colony in the world. While it was daytime, you can hear a light chitter of the resident safe in their homes underneath.

#Travel #Austin #Texas #atx #Bat #batappreciationday #Animal #Nature #urban #Wildlife #bridge

PS - We finally exchanged our Austin photos - more posts soon!

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Hello everyone! We are still here - just a bit busy! We hope to post some travel photos soon.

For now, we hope you all are having a good day - take some time for a nice walk and get away from technology for a while!

#SelfCare #Spring #Garden #Walk #Walking #Chicago #Loteria #LaLoteria #Peaceful #Calm #Street #StreetPhotography #City #Urban #Outside