The Loud Americans

OK, now while I miss Tom and I love him, I also appreciate the work he does with the kids... AND, I DO understand his role as household sta...

The highlight of this weekend was Saturday. Kay woke up bright and early at 6:30, came running into my room and announced, "Today's...

Finally after 23 hours on the road I finally made back home. I was great to have Pat pick me up at the airport shuttle me around. I had a fa...

Really, we had Thanksgiving Dinner at The Only Place. Its an expat favorite:) Actually, The Only Place, is a great kid friendly resturant th...

It is with a heavy and sad heart that as I am planning my trip back to Minnesota I have heard that my Uncle Don has passed away. Don will al...

So we were doing Pooja the other day to bless and get long life out of our electronics, car, etc. The pooja was in full swing when Billy dem...

In an effort to show Wendy as much of India as possible, the LoudAmericans decided to head off to Pondicherry for a 4 day road trip/beachsid...

Halloween came in with a bang and the Loudamericans were ready! Jimmy the black Power Ranger, Kay the Princess/Ballerina and Billy the car. ...

I am sure MANY of you are forsaking our names and maybe even protesting our blog since our dismal "show" in October (our lowest bl...

As many of you know, Wendy is a dear dear friend of ours for the last good many years:). She and Tracy do the MS150 together EVERY year (ok,...

We were on a recent trip to Pondicherry, more info on that to follow, and we were using our new CD converter and listening to some great mus...

Billy is now becoming a really big boy. He is talking non-stop and playing games and even wearing big boy underwear!! He, as you all know is...

We have been dragging the kids all around Asia for the past year and decided that the next trip we go on will be their choice, well with som...

The prep kids at Gopalan have been rehearing and practicing for the past couple of months to take the stage and bring alive the many festiva...

During the months of September through November here in India one needs a flow chart and a list of players to keep track of all the,Politica...

This is a statement of Birthday Wishes used here in India. It also appears that you start calling to wish the recipient "Many Happy Ret...

Hi there Tomorrow is Tom's birthday. Send him all our love, well wishes and good thoughts as he heads into another year as a fabulous pa...

Kodagu or more commonly known, Coorg is a place quite different from the rest of southern India. It was a small kingdom which then became a ...

Earlier this week, Tracy informed me that since there are several family's living in Bangalore from Minnesota (6 people total to be exac...

Today we got the BEST news in the whole world! Our friends Duane, Leanne and Cooper (see Australia Cmas blog) just found out their new son ...