I’ve been in Sydney this this past week, and while I was over the other side of Australia, Harman though it would be a great idea for me to meet his Didi for the first time ever.     After a mammoth effort on the part of Harman, his Didi and her husband, Harman Veerji, who drove more than 10hrs overnight just to come and see us, we all managed to meet up at Darling Harbour at 5pm in the afternoon.

Before the meeting went ahead I was feeling quite nervous – what will it be like meeting Didi? I hope she likes me, I hope I like her! will it be terribly awkward? or will it go ok?  As soon as I saw Harman all those thoughts melted away, Didi introduced herself and I introduced my sisters to her and Harman Veerji and we all ran into Starbucks to escape from the pouring rain. I loved Didi from the moment I saw her, she was so lovely and sweet. As we chatted we found out that we had many things in common: we both feel extremely cold, even in summer, we both think Americans are very loud , we love adding extra spice to our food, we think sarees are beautiful, we think Harman is a baby (just kidding ), we both looooove Shahrukh    and so it went on.  Harman Veerji was equally as nice, and did such a lovely job making everyone feel at home and comfortable.   After Starbucks, we walked through Sydney to go to an Indian Restaurant for Dinner – and surprise, it was the very same restaurant the me, Clare and Celine love that is in Sydney!! after much debate about dinner, we decided on palak paneer, chicken tikka masala, chicken jalfrazi, dal makhani, aloo paratha and rotis..  we had soooo much food that we could barely make a dent in it!  Harman Veerji insisted that we eat some sweets, so we had some gulab jamuns and rasgoola.

Harman walked us back to our hotel, and then we sat together chatting for about 20mins waiting for Didi and Harman Veerji to come by to pick him up. We were both overjoyed that the first meeting with his family had gone so well.  It’s amazing, just one year ago anything like this seemed so distant and far to us. Finally our dreams are starting to come true.