My first weekend in Chicago

So here I am, already a week old in this goro ki basti. For weekend, got in touch with Satinder Singh who inturn contact Baba Daljeet Singh and finally I landed up at Gurudwara saheb on Friday evening ready to spend a weekend there.

Met up with Shunty VeerJee, Daler VeerJee and Amrit Singh Jee.

The gurduwara does not have any service on Saturday so had nothing much to do. Attended the diwan on Sunday and got to hear from Baba Daljeet Singh. He is a very soft spoken, down to earth person.

Zulfi was also here over the weekend but since I was in the Gurdwara and he ws busy roaming about in the downtown so did not get a chance to meet him in person. Just talked to him oevr the telephone.

Shiv had informed his sister about me being in Chicago. So, they decided to pick me up from the Gurudwara Saheb on sunday afternoon. Spent the entire Sunday afternoon and evening there at their house which BTW has an excellent view with a small lake running just behind their living room.

Gagan and her husband took excellent care of me. Boy they would surely be saying what a straneg creature am I with my eatign habits like eating this and not eating that. I took up their entire Sunday. But again they were excellent hosts probably much better than I may ever be. Thanks guys. Stupid me, I went to their house for the first time and forgot to get any gift alongwith me. All I could give them was a dabba of besan kain ladoo which I dont know whether they would like or not. Probably thinking of going with them sometime later say in September to a wallmart and ask them to help me buy some stuff for my imaginary cousin who is the same size as them and then gift them the same. That seems to be the only option right now.

Ate dinner at their place and then they dropped me at the hotel.