New Jersey Visit - Jan 14 2005

[E*Pro Team]

For the first time on a Friday evening (Jan 14 2005) since June 2004, we (Myself and Sam) started our trip with in US from Omaha to New Jersey for E*Pro Party at Wood Bridge, Iselin. We were initially informed of the united airlines delay to Chicago, but to our good luck, we boarded on time and reached Chicago. We waited for an hour to board the next flight to Newark. Mean while we had Fish Fillet from McDonalds. We boarded Newark flight on time and reached Newark Liberty International Airport. We had Kumar waiting to pick up us to the E*Pro corporate apartment. We reached the apartment located at Woodbridge around 1.30 a.m. (Saturday early morning). We planned for the next day and went to sleep.

We got up at 6.00 a.m again, refreshed ourselves and Kumar drove us to New Jersey - Liberty Statue Ferry Parking at CRR-NJ Rail Terminal. The weather was cold outside and the Rail building was very old. We watched the tall buildings of NY (Empire State and others, TWIN TOWERS was missing). We took some snaps outside and took the ferry by paying 10USD for adults. It includes a round trip to Liberty Statue, Office of Immigration and Manhattan (NY). After seeing the Liberty Statue we decided not to go to NY, since we were running out of time on the ferry car parking (2 hours). I called Vidhya and asked about the place where she stayed. Mean while we decided to go to Bridge Water Sri Venkateswara Temple. We offered our prayers for the tsunami victims and also for every one. It is a very good temple to visit and good crowd on Saturday morning. We took few Indian foods at the temple cafeteria. We finally reached Vidhya's house and had a wonderful lunch. We had a quick chat at her house and started back to apartment as Priyabrata Mukherjee (a consultant) from India were on the way to our apartment. We picked up him with his friend at Bestbuy. We refreshed again and started to the E*Pro Party.

Finally we met the entire E*Pro employees in the Wood Bridge, Hilton, Iselin Party. We arranged for the eSolv's back ground presentation along with Naren. It was very good to meet every one at one place and the buffet started around 7.30 p.m. The crowd slowly started filling with Vendors, Clients, E*Pro employees with their family members. DJ started the performance and the lively dance started with the mix of Hindi and English songs. We had a good time watching every one dancing. The party catches up slowly and it went on till 11:30 p.m. We reached home and went to bed.

Got up on Sunday morning at 9.00 a.m and planned for the rest of the day. We started from home at 10:45 a.m to see the E*Pro office, but unfortunately the code to open the office gate didn't work, so we moved to Subhzi Mandi to buy the Indian Groceries. We bought for us, Kumar's home and also for Gopi at Omaha. We reached Dosa Express at Green Street to have the brunch. We had a delicious south Indian food. We started back to EWR (Newark) Airport and flied back to Omaha. We reached our Home back at Omaha by 7.40 p.m. by cab from Omaha Airport. It was a memorable trip.