Yesterday was a scary day – but things are not as bad as it looked to begin with.

Today is our 8th marriage anniversary, sometimes it still amazes me that we have lasted so long given our headstrong and highly independent nature but then it mostly concludes to who else? or why not?

Well, it almost didn’t happen 🙂

8 years ago exactly about the same time I had told my shocked father 5 min more and if they don’t turn up we go back home.

We had been standing in front of the marriage registars office since 10:45, Swati with her father and not more than 2 other people was to meet us at 11:00 , She knew that I don’t like people who are late. So while she was pacing her veranda ready to leave, her folks in typical UP style, hmm’ed and haw’ed and ooh’ed and aah’ed over getting ready and blah.

They did turn up in less than 5 min but there were 15 people, Dad had to convince me that it is really OK and almost begged me to please put up with the extra folks… 🙂

Swati was utterly frustrated and at her wits end. The registar thankfully was efficient, perhaps he wanted to rush somewhere, and in less than 3 min we were married.

More about it, perhaps, later in the day.

Today is also Dad’s 2nd death anniversary…