Welcome To The US !!

I got married to a guy who lived and worked in the US....After marriage he came bak and left me in India to get a visa....I got my visa 2 months after our marriage.....And I flew to the US.....:)

Air India troubled me in all possible ways....and after tat I (almost) missed my flight from Chicago to Austin....thank God to the "Technical Problems".....the flight got delayed by 5 minutes and I could make it.....So basically after almost 26 hours of no sleep and bad food....and very less water.....i finally reched Austin !!!

I got a welcome similar to any Local Minister in India flying frm Bombay to Pune......There were flowers and a lot of people to welcome me.....I was feeling like a celebrity and was really happy to finally be with my Hubby....and ofcourse damn tired.....wanted to go home and sleep.....and ya eat.....My sis also lives in Austin....So they had a small get-t0-gether at their place to welcome me....we were supposed to stop at her place for sometime before heading home.....

My Jijaji and Jiji came to pick me....Gautam and I were sitting in the bak seat and we started driving towards my sis's place.....I was tired and was asking this every five mins....."How long will it take??".....after 26 hours in moving things.....u wud definately hate the 20 25 mins drive.....

Suddenly, in the middle of the road....a person abt 6 feet tall appeared and stopped the car.....and than came 3 more....in all 4 tall guys with loud voices and caps covering most of their faces were banging on the car windows.....they started threatening and asking for all the money, Cell Phones and Wallets......I was damn scared and confused.....always had an impression tat US is better than India.......road side Loot-Maar is not tat common.....my sis, bro-in-law and hubby gave their wallets to the tall guy.....I didnt know what to think.....i was really zoned out and feeling extremely bad.....all three started saying things like.....it has never happened in austin before....and they all were really tensed.....tat made me feel worst.....didnt wanna go to my sis's place....but every1 started insisting on lets juss stop by for 15 mins.....as soon as we entered.....there was a girl standing with Aarti Thali.....there were abt 15 ppl.....and than comes a Pretty girl with a Thali which was covered with a napkin....and she tells me "We always gift this to any1 who comes to the US for the very first time".....I took the thali and underneath the napkin were all our Wallets, money and Cell phones....well....this is how my "Wud Be" Family greeted me for the very first time.... :) .... "Welcome to the US !! "