Whataday!!

Woke up this morning (well last morning since its 4.36am and a new day)...realizing that this wasn't a dream! We had really made it to the next round of the Mitusbishi Cedia Great Driving Challenge. All excited about our new blog....I decided to check it out, but the damn electricity refused to behave with me. It slept on me......for like a whole day! And the inverter wouldn't co-operate as well.

So all I did today... was relive those exciting moments of yesterday.

I was at the Bangalore airport at 11.40pm yesterday, just checked in to take my flight to Goa. I couldn't stop looking at my watch, waiting for 12pm....waiting for somebody.......anybody......to call and tell me, we had made it to the TOP 12.

At 12.02pm, I couldn't take it any longer. I called Roohshad and insisted on staying on line till the page loaded....and till he clicked on every box.

It was the sweetest words I had ever heard anybody ever say...."We're in!!"

All I heard next were excited screams. In my own voice. And Roohshad's ______ (I'm still trying to figure what he was saying/chanting (?)/ singing. That's Rooh for you. Can never find a justifiable word to describe his "lost-for-a-word-again" ) Oh...........and I was totally oblivious of the 100 and something people at the airport lounge. I was flying....somewhere over the rainbow! This was our moment. I couldn't be bothered about anything else. WE MADE IT!!

The gentleman sitting 3 chairs away from me...frowned at me, I had ruined his little nap. I couldn't help but grin at him. Yes, he probably thought I had lost it!!

The flight back home seemed to last forever! After switching on my phone when I landed, my phone beeped continuously. Apparently the whole world (my whole world at least) had been online checking to see if we made it.... and couldn't wait to congratulate us.

I haven't known such joy in a long while. Roohshad and me had made a lot of people proud!!

The warm welcome I received at the Goa airport from family and friends was surprising and touching! Wow!! They actually took the trouble to come all the way to the airport to congratulate me??!!!

This Challenge has turned out to be much bigger than I expected. It not only meant a lot to me and Roohshad, but to all our friends and family too...... who eagerly wanted to know how they could help in the next stage.

For now...all I can do is thank TGDC and their judges for giving us the chance to go forward in this journey..... and letting us experience this wonderful feeling of making our peeps proud!!

This is definitely a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity...and we will go all out to make it till the end.

Watch out for us ;-)