Aaj Maha Shashthi

All the preparations and hard work over the last few weeks are finally over - well, almost over. We now wait in bated breath for the event to kick off smoothly. Today is Maha Shashthi. The Decoration and Setup teams are working at a frantic pace to make sure that we can start the pujo on-time. We will get the venue at our disposal at 5 pm, but pre-work has started off from the morning with a visit to the storage, a visit to the school, uhaul renting etc. all lined up one after the other.

In between there is time to be set aside for planning the dresses and jewelries to be worn. Maybe a short trip to the bank locker to take out that gold chain which last saw daylight a year ago. Co-ordinating colors with the hubbies and deciding on styles with friends. Thank god, there is Whatsapp and Group Texts. Someone said Maa Durga's Goda is missing from last year !! Are we going to search and be able to find it out before evening today? Are we going to make a new one instead? Tough questions. Tougher decisions.
 
There are more than 200 registrants who will be attending CDU 2016 for the first time ever ! This is aside from our regular members and community friends. 

We welcome everybody and look forward to meeting new people, making new friends, re-kindling old acquaintances.

Have a wonderful pujo !