a day's break

was out of the city for a day with family and family friends...
like ive mentioned earlier, the company can make the saddest of places, lively and fun...

a day of hectic activity... loads o fun and a welcome break from the regular rut...

the itinerary as follows :)

left for vijayawada on the night of 29th with family and friends...

reached on the 30th at an unearthly hour...4.40am...

drove down to the hotel, refreshed, relaxed and ready to go...

a nice long drive to this temple town called "chinna tirupati" [ a smaller yet equally powerful version of the famed temple at tirupati]

a good and quick darshan, a tonsuring session for the two kids[ the reason of the whole trip] and finally gettin to eat the prasadam...the first morsel of food for the rest[ i had 2 biscuits, very less by my standards but cudnt wait without food for that long :)]

another short drive to a nearby temple...

a decent drive to this place called eluru... our lunch halt...
hogged like never before...

this place was action packed. visited about 5 families, each one interesting than the other... one was a house that was 72 years old, simply sexy... did not have the heart to leave that place... the people were also so affectionate... another family who despite not having the means were xtremely loving and affectionate... lived upto the indian tradition of " athithi devo bhava" [ a guest being an incarnation of god]to the tilt...

finally the drive back to base camp[ vijayawada]...
enroute the hotel a stop at another friends place where we treated to an awesome lemon black tea :)

a visit to the famed durga temple, had a very nice darshan there...

back to the hotel, refreshed and relaxed...

meanwhile i went to this hotel called "babai hotel" famous for its idlies... was hell bent on tryin it out.. succeeded... amazin idlis that melt in your mouth....slurp!

dinner at the hotel we put up in... sad service, a bunch o sloths to serve us!!!

and finally the journey back to the station...

the train back at 10.20 pm

arrived in hyderabad at 4.20 am!!!!

came home, crashed!

all in all, was simply fun :)

been a while...

well its been a while since i blogged...reasons being ....

sheer lack of inclination,

lack of topics, situations, call it what u want...

laziness at its best,

a screwed up state of affairs...

a tumultous relationship,

an agitated restless state of mind...

and now finally when i feel like it, have got a bunch o boring xams to give...

chuck the agony aunts, i sure sound like an agonised aunt :)

sigh sigh sigh.....