IKEA and Life

I am very excited because an IKEA is opening in Tampa on May 6th!! This is a big deal! Until December 2007, the closest IKEA was in Atlanta...a 7 hour drive! Then in Dec 07 one opened in Orlando yipee! Still, about a 1.5-2 hour drive. But now it will be one hour away!! And much more pleasant drive than the 80 or so miles to the Orlando IKEA (which we only went to twice since it opened).

Sujeet's is in the process of renewing his Indian passport here in the US. The picture he has on his current Indian passport hardly looks like him! He has changed so much. He is eligible to apply for US citizenship, but we haven't been in a rush to do that. It also is another big chunk of money to file that--- $675.00! So we have just been waiting, and Sujeet has been thinking about it.

I miss eating the food in India every day, and I realized even more how much my husband's life changed when he moved here away from India. I felt it I guess after staying with his family and being totally immersed in Indian daily life. He lived on his own in India, in a different city than most of his family, when we met. So he was independent. But still it was just a train ride to see the family, not a really expensive and really long plane journey.