Narasimha's mercy.

Narasimha's blessing

Prabhupada's Mercy

Balaramcandra is not in control.

Lacie

walking break.

So we left on Sunday to catch our train in Pittsburgh. Right when we left a blizzard hit and covered all the roads with snow. since it was sunday morning everyone being most pious people were at church so they didnt get out and plow the roads. If any of you have been to Nv you know West virginia is not a place for a Ford Focus to drive arround in the snow. Better you stay home. I came down stairs with my bags and Json asked are we actually going? With a confident yes we said a few good byes and headed to the car.

A few of our friends from Athens drove three hours to pick us up and drop us off another 1.5 hours to Pittsburgh. Great friends. While they were in New V. I showed them the temple and took them to the Palace. We had a great time playing in the snow, until we realized that we would have to drive to Pittsburgh in the same beautiful blanket. Amanda, JC, and Mark, interviewed us and grabbed footage to make a short documentary for Current Tv which is a popular tv station nowadays for youth.

On the trip out we had a few slide outs, a few out of control chanting sessions, and one getting stuck on a hill. Four of us jumped out and pushed the little car up the hill while we peeled out and slide somehow or another all the way to the top! It was video taped so maybe we'll see it on google video some day.

One interesting point was practically the whole ride we happened to be speaking all about Narasimhadev. Our friends were very interested our particular worship of thiis interstign personality. I think that His katha protected us from all danger.

We were late to our train. Lacie called us at 1:30 and said," Where are you I just watched your train leave without you? " She had secretly showed up with pizza Prasadam for our lunch while travelling. Nice. We got dropped of at her Bead shop oakland and made jewelry and chatted with the customers. I forgot how fun it was to work in resale. All day talking nonsense. Thats my style, and get paid for it.

Shyamasundar Prabhu had a program that evening so he mercifully arranged for us to get picked up by Gopal Prabhu. He even allowed me to speak, despite my hoody and pants outfit. We stayed the night at Pradumnya Prabhu's home adn his father Prasad dropped us off just intime in the morning to catch the train to New Jersey.

Train ride was normal. chanting, eating, reading, sleeping, chatting etc. Nothing as dynamic as a Greyhound ride and not as quick as a flight.

Right now were off to NYc for a day of Brahmacari sanga, Visa obtaining, lunch with the brother Isaac, and Tuesday evening program with the Manhattan vaisnavas!

Wish us luck, our last rip to NYc was very interesting and a little longer than scheduled.