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Whats the sign of a good freind ?? They say with good friends time and distance dont matter because freinds can pick up right where they left.... I did that after 6 yrs with my close freind Smita.

We met this past saturday after SIX years.We were together in college and after that Smita was westward bound to do her masters and I stuck around in India .We kept in touch but not much as life took interesting twists and turns and then as fate would have it I moved to the US post marriage ..

So even after 3 years in the US of A ,we couldnt meet up ,only emails and phone.Two weeks ago Smita emailed me that she would be coming to Seattle to help her sister settle down who had landed a job as an intern with an architecture firm..SURPIIIISE!!!I was excited to be finally meeting her after all this time.

We met up on 21st .Pankaj and I decided to take the job of hosts seriously(wink!!).We had a wonderful lunch at Cutters(downtown seattle)reminisced about college ,our cafetaria ,our favorite spots, other freinds and what they are doing right now ,and then lounged around at Downtown waterfront .Pike place market was our next stop where we just had to have seattle's best coffee, admire all the fresh flowers , buy tonnes of stuff from the 3 girls bakery (decadent ,I tell you but yummiest ever) , After tonnes of browsing we decided to go to Alki beach even though it was pouring rain .the beach looked deserted(unheard of )but beautiful.


It was then time to go to the Indian market (Bellevue) where we tucked in samosas and chai and then to the the mall where Suchita picked up a digital camera .and before we knew it was time to leave ..gosh ,how time flies in the company of freinds we treasure .looking forward to the next time already :)

Heres a toast to all my good freinds ,people I cherish and wouldnt exchange for anything in the world .
"Silence makes the real conversations between freinds, not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts "