maKhsuusMonday, December 12, 2005
Preparations...Our talks now changed to more of preparation talks. We started discussing about my family's and my traveling plans to Pakistan. It was not a straight forward planning, we had to consider the time required for my visa processing for Pakistan. Her mother, elder brother and sister-in-law were supposed to be in India for a month from mid-November to mid-December.
I on the other hand, was planning with my parents about who all will be joining us in Pakistan for engagement. After much discussions and analyzing position, health condition, passport and visa status, readiness to travel and other such factors of each and every member in our family, it was decided that my mother, father, two younger brothers, my didi and kakima would join us in Pakistan for the engagement. Travel dates were decided for last week of December. We still had enough time, six weeks before engagement.
Everything was left for later. We thought it would be simple to just apply for the visa for Pakistan, book the tickets and land in Pakistan. Each of my family members had different view to the trip obviously after the engagement. This was our first trip ever to Pakistan. For my dad, it was about the Pakistani food. For my mom and didi, it was about shopping. For my brothers it was about touristy bits. For me, it was meeting her in real for the first time.
Fatima and I use to discuss about the places she would like to take me to. Every day there were atleast three new places where she would take me. Including 10s of eating places in Karachi and 10s of places to shop in Islamabad and 10 of places to see in Pindi and ofcourse above all, Muree. After a few days I realised it would take me atleast three months to eat, roam and shop in Pakistan :-)
We were impatiently waiting for December...
Saleem Pothiwala ::
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