Weekend at the Country Club

Meet the Maholtra’s. They are our neighbors – Sunjay, Mona, and Ericka, and they are our closest friends here. They are incredible people who have been great to us. Their friendship is a huge blessing in my life.

This past week they asked Alicia and I to spend the weekend at the country club with them. You may be thinking “Indian Country Club?” Those were my thoughts exactly. I did not know quite what to expect, but it ended up being a great weekend.

The country club was outside a neighboring city about 2 hours away. As we got closer to our destination we turned off the main freeway and began traveling through the country and through local villages. I was beginning to wonder about this country club. After traveling to the middle of nowhere, we finally arrived at the Best Western Country Club Resort (I didn’t realize Best Western was even in India).

The resort was really nice by Indian standards and had all the Indian resort amenities – golf, crouquet, tennis, swimming, birdwatching, dancing, playgrounds, yard chess, yard bowling, ping pong, billiards, badmitton, bingo, live drum bands, goat-cart riding, and camel rides. (Every major resort should have goat-cart riding and camels :) ). It reminded me of those movies set at a 1960’s or early 1970’s country club, but it was really relaxing. It was a lot of fun just hanging out with the Malhotra’s and Alicia, swimming, playing cards, and eating, of course. However, besides the company I was with, my favorite part was that they had hammocks. Once again, I got to sit outside among green nature. I am strong believer of enjoying the simple things in life :).