Promise are always meant to be broken . When ever i reminded Mr.vinnyk he used to reply " Ok boss , lets decide who all will be coming ." " i can get many people , but we wont have fun if we go in large number " and finally " we can't make it this time , i am busy at office or i've got to attend a function at uncle's place " .
I was wondering how come our vinnyk became family man . finally, time had come and gace vinnyk oppurtunity to keep his promise . Bingo vinnyk .
we were all set.
13 people were ready to go . Wait a minute did i say 13 ??? . there were some cancellation of course and finally 10 people started.
In bus after fixing the bug ( push back feature for the seat not working ) we started from Bangalore. then sleep . zzzzzz.............
found bus stopped some where in between , dunno what was the time . it was near a Hotel , some decided to eat and some decided to have some tea.
The hotel wala does not know about the great 'half tea' . First i asked him give 2 half tea's he did not understand . then i asked him to give 1 Full assuming that we will share it . there was huge 'queue??( if u call it one )' .
vinnyk had one Full Tea , shekhi had one 'Full' Tea. me n raghu mama had some idli's and bus was about to leave and then second round zzzzzzzz........
Got up arnd 6 ( i don remember exact time though ) we were very near to kukke , i was sitting next to vinnyk , i woke him up to make sure we did not missed kukke ;) while we were still asleep and there comes the confirmation from vinnyk " we are near and will be there in next 20 min " .
and there we landed ( plz don ask me time i don remember ) and we were heading towards hotel rooms already booked . after small walk we were there " Karthikeya " it was . that was the lodge's name .
Now we had to make a decision . either go to river to take bath or take bath in lodge . there were some mixed opinion's but majority won . we were heading towards river in next 20 min ;) .
a nice walk ...., early morning , chilling atmosphere .... coool breeze and ... wait a minute. that was what i thought . actually it was not that chilling and there was no cool breeze , but i bet every one enjoyed that little long walk .
Near river again there was discussion . where to swim ( by the way there was not enough water for swimming ) some people got into water near the bridge ( alas! i don have pic of that bridge ) . some opted to go a little far from bridge ( perhaps they din had macho body to show off ;) ).
well people were enjoying 'water sports' none were ready to come out of water and were forced to come out only after vinnyk's dad came . next stop Hotel again. ( i mean lodge ) and guess what!! vinnyk was our driver :) .
came back to hotel , took few minutes to get ready stuffed ourselves in the jeep and started from there to our destination.
No no . not kumaraparvatha yet . To vinnyk's house! :) .
He always used to tell me how his house is in 'Gopalapura' , right in between jungle surrounded by 'thotha' and the way he used to get down in between jungle and walk alone towards his house in pitch dark ( u need to travel a little distance to reach his house from main road ) scaring each and every one in bus. he would have scared them more if he had started walking with candle in his hand ;)) . any wez i could not wait any more to see his house and the time had come.
suddenly jeep took right turn from the main road and started traveling through the forest there was a small road , which finally lead us to vinny's house.
we were welcomed by a cute little kitten and very shy and sweet little girl 'savi' ( vinnyk's uncle's daughter ) and very nice family of vinnyk , each
one always smiling and always trying to make us
feel comfortable ( of course we were very comfortable ;) ).
and we had breakfast of our life time .
'idli chutney' and 'savige'. ( i told vinnyk several times to get the same idli parcel but he never did).
we went inside vinnyk's 'thotha' for few minutes and some were planing to cancel the trek and stay there only for two days and get back to Bangalore. but soon they were about to realize that it was very fortunate for them not to take that decision.
and finally we decided to take off from there ( our main motto , kumara parvatha trek ;) ) . of course it was after a warm send off from vinnyk's family and foto session.
vinnyk's dad dropped us near our hotel and there we were all packed up and after a litght breakfast ( yeah again ) we were ready......
to be continued ...........................
