As the multi day Eid festivities continued, Kristeen and I hopped on the metro to visit Shahdarah. We met with my good friend Mehboob and his family. It had been just over five years since we last met, though I had kept in touch over the phone.Mehboob had worked as a security guard at the NCA hostel back when I first met him. He and I became good friends during my stay there. Each night the electricity would go, and I would sit with him for hours, talking and sharing. I had visited his family back then as well and learned a great deal about him and his very positive outlook on life and the work he put in to making it better for his family.So it was, that years later, Kristeen and I met up with his family over home made aloo gobi (potato and cauloflower) parathas in Shadhra. We spent the day chatting with the family, visiting Bara Dari (a Mughal era garden along the Ravi river), Noor Jehan (Mughal Queen) and Jehangir (Mughal King) tombs. It is great to see a lot of restoration work being done on these tombs. I remember visiting about 11 years ago, and there seemed to be no sign of preserving these sites.At night, we had some rabri faluda.