Interview experience..I-485 pending

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OK here's brief detail about my interview yesterday. My interview was scheduled for 1:30 PM at Garden City NY. We got to the office at 1:00 PM, went through security walked up to the counter no 6 and handed over my interview letter she told us to sit in the back along with the others.

After three minutes another woman came and called out about 10 names including mine and put us all in a line facing the door. She asked us to follow her and walked out and went upstairs to 2nd floor, and we followed her up the staircase. We went around and sat in another waiting room with dozens of other people. I thought I was lucky as she called my name in three minutes but the real wait began as we just sat there. Finally, about 3:30 PM am our name was called.

Our IO was a very young white lady. She led us to her office and the first thing she did was swearing us in. Then she opened our folder and asked my wife “are you US citizen?” My wife said yes. She asked for my passport, my wife passport, original birth certificate, my son’s birth certificate, our marriage certificate, and my wife's naturalization certificate and copies of all above said documents.

While looking at those documents to see if they matched the copies she had in my file, she started asking questions to me:

What is your full name?
Where do you live?
What is birthday?
Where was your wedding?
Is this your first marriage?
She asked my wife same question. We said yes.
You have only one child? We said yes.
Any other kids from previous relationship? We said No.
When you entered in United states last time?

Then she started asking question from I-485 like drugs, arrest, violation, crime etc.. I said no to everything.

She asked my wife “when you filed for your husband you was permanent resident and now you are united citizen right?” my wife said yes. (We filed out I-130 in 2005 after our marriage)
She asked for our photos. We gave her album of about 72 pictures of me, my wife and my son (from 2004 to 2009) including my son’s first birthday.

She went through whole album. She took our one wedding pic, one pic me and my wife and one pic of me, my wife and our son. Than she asked this pic taken at Niagra falls Garden at Canada side right? We laughed and said yes. She was also laughing and said she spent so much time over there so she can recognize flowers of that garden.

She asked for any other documents showing both names. I gave her joint bank statements, joint car insurance policy and life insurance policy.
She took everything and said she will review these documents and I will be notified by mail about decision. She gave me a form saying to contact USCIS within 60 days if I don't hear anything about I-485 and she wrote in my passport "I-485 pending."

I asked her “is my name check cleared?” She was laughing and asked me are you attorney or what because generally attorney asked this question. She said yes your name check is cleared. Than again she laughed and asked me your lawyer must told you to ask this question. I replied no but I read on forum on internet. That's about it and then she escorted us out to the hallway.

The whole thing lasted maybe 7-8 minutes and she did not ask for any financial documents.

Now I don’t know how many months it will take now. Please share you experience if you had same situation.