BIHAR TRIP

Bihar Trip during my pregnancy
I was in my 6th month of pregnancy still had no fear of the travel we had planned to Bihar as it was a priority for us to visit Bihar after marriage. Mom also had not been to her place after she got down with Cancer since last 3 yrs and I had also not gone there after marriage with Jd. I did get a lot of reactions from people when they heard iam traveling in rain for 3-4 days and that too in such an extreme cold climate but my heart n mind was more excited than scared. I dono y and how I had the confidence that my baby is strong and will not get affected with this long travel.
This travel was a big achievement for me. It first took a lot of time for us to plan the travel as Jd’s leaves were not confirmed and thus I too was hanging around the same. Post Jd confirmed the dates the booking started on http://www.irctc.com/n and it was a never ending process. Lot of searches , lot of booking from different locations to different locations and lot of cancellations too happened on the site. It went on to the extreme that the site restricted me to book more tickets as I had crossed my booking quota of 10 bookings in a month. I was going mad with only ticket booking dreams coming in mind in the month of Dec 09. My credit card would have been swiped about 10-15 times giving a good revenue to the Railways too. Every transaction deducted Rs.20 for booking and 1% of the ticket cost from the credit card. Anyways the entire experience has been put into my “Happy Days” bucket.
I was excited about the trip for various reasons-
I will have a change from the normal routine life from office to home and back to office
It would be a memorable month for me during my pregnancy time as I have not had any exciting moment till date
I would be with my “Loved Ones” and that means a lot for me
I would be in touch with the bihari culture after a long stint with the mallu culture.
My mom wanted a change and so I am happy that her long desired wish gets fulfilled
I met all my family members and collected lot of cash too J

My first stay was at buttu didi’s place at patna where mom, sonu mama and shivam came to pick us at the station. We had dinner at sonu mama’s place. Next day we went to Muzaffarpur to stay with pappu mama. Halted at saroj mausi’s place for dinner then went to pappu mama’s place at night. Stayed there for 4-5 days which was not planned but due to surya graham I was not supposed to move out of the house or do any activity. Finally we planned to go to arrah (our village) and also meet dad who had been there since the day mom n dad reached patna. It was a pleasure to show our house made by baba to JD and the old house too.

2nd Jan 10
I changed all my mail id passwords to “Armanilal”. There is again a story behind it. My baby is considered to be lucky for all of us. We suddenly realized that all the small / big wishes me and Jd had he/she was able to fulfill. Few examples of the same could be:
- Going to Bihar (long awaited plan) but happened during my pregnancy which was not expected at all.
- JD’s profile confirmed as Branch Manager which was confirmed just at the time I conceived.
- When ever we planned to meet a member of the family situation would somehow change and our small wishes would come true.
- Baby helped us collect a lot of money during our trip to bihar J
- I always wanted to fly in flight with JD once as we both had traveled in flight alone for our office work but never together.
- I wanted to travel in train with Jd , Mom and Dad which also got fixed at the end moment.
So this name was kept by my cousin sister- Buttu didi who said that Armani Lal was fulfilling all our wishes and thus told few of her wishes also to us. :)

Slowly my baby has started off with his/her slight kicking moments. Its such a great pleasure to feel such a moment inside you. I always keep one hand on my tummy at night before going to sleep to feel my baby moving.