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Look I love Ahmedabad as a city and I grew up there – but let me be frank – it’s the absolute worst city to host any kind of sporting events, let alone Olympics!

If Nita Ambani really wants India to bid for the Olympics in 2036 then why Ahmedabad? They have a fucking 2 billion dollar some 30 floor residence in Mumbai. They could host the entire Olympics in their home with events on different floors and nobody would ever have to set a foot outside the house! Anyway only Bollywood people will be there to see the athletes.

Ever since Harris/Walz have taken a lead in most polls crosstabs have ceased to matter anymore amirite? 2 months ago every poll was being dissected left right and center to illustrate how crosstabs showed Biden doing better. Now? Crickets 😅

I will say this straight out – LA will have to pull off a complete miracle to compete with Paris Olympics. The city provided such a stunning backdrop to the events it is almost impossible to match if. Marathon and cycling through st. Germaine area? Fencing in the grand palais? Events in seine with backdrop of Eiffel? Various free pop up venues to watch Olympics with backdrop of Hôtel de-vile or various picturesque churches? There is no fucking way LA is going to match the visual factor of Paris. Gonna be incredibly hard to top this!

Rewatched Dune 1 on flight back last night and my god this movie holds up so so much better than dune 2. Dune 1 was better than dune 2 I think.

Overall, Paris was great fun this time. Grindelwald was very pretty but marred by a few racist locals. Zermatt and Zurich were both awesome with people being so nice on both places. Truly think it was just a Grindelwald problem. Zermatt stole our hearts though, hands down.

I generally never post about my travel plans well in advance anywhere and limit the information also to very few people outside my family too. Most of the times I post photos on insta *after* the trip is over or even if I do, it will be very few and far in between. I have a superstition that something goes wrong when I over share my plans. This summer trip I decided I am no longer believing in this BS and shared my plans not just on social media but with lots of friends and colleagues at work. So many people told us how jealous they are that we were doing so many things this trip. I shared photos on insta and micro almost on a daily basis chronicling our trip. And then Vienna happened. The very reason we created this trip and this itinerary was the Taylor Swift concert. The entire trip came together around the concert. My kid’s entire reason of the trip was the concert, with Olympics being a bonus. Now that it cancelled and we headed back home early, I think I am going back to my earlier days of not making a big deal out of my trips at all. I don’t think I want to do the same thing I did this year anymore again and I will stick to my old ways!

Back home after cutting our trip short by almost 3-4 days. We knew we had to cut it short in Zurich when we became totally listless and adrenaline of the trip wore off with the concert news. Doggo’s reaction to us coming back was validation enough that it was the right thing to do. And OMG my bed has never looked more inviting!

Zurich is actually very pretty and almost Seattle like but all our enthusiasm and energy was drained out. We walked around like zombies mostly, none of us in any mood to keep walking. My kid is the one who’s made peace with the tour cancellation while I am the one who is still extremely pissed off at turn of events.

All religions are absolutely terrible but honestly feel Islam is at the bottom of that rotten pile. No other religion in modern times seems to radicalize young people towards senseless violence and terrorism more than this one. I am still so bummed over events of last 24 hours.