Out of Sight is out of mind... heard of this verse long before somewhere, by someone... and hey stop stop, is that happening to us also... once friends and now we are e-friends, isn't this becoming a virtual world... Emails, ecards, chats.... whoa.. people wait.. hold on.. where are days we used to go out meet at coffee shops, sit there and chat till the waiter gives us the leave-now-look, chill out at Satyam, Mayajal... ECR drives, weekly hang-outs...
We gang of 7 decided we will not let our Past hang-outs gone into just memories or slam books... so here was our poa (Plan of action)... that we meet every year... and just explore some part of the world... and which other place is best to start other than our "Sondha ThaaiNadu". Plans started from suggestions from all of us... Goa, Lonavala, Moonar, Kumarakom... U name it we had already finished discussing it... We even spoke about fishermans cove in Chennai :)
When we had already started our regular conf calls with varying Time Zones, half sleepy, pulling each other as usual... We all did get excited as we were all in totally different parts of the world and was really a long time that we had all met... We finally ended up deciding we will go to Lonavala... And now slowly... there came the regular stuff... G was not in a position to join us due to official reasons, L and M had their personal problems.. and so it was the four of us left to decide if we still wanted to go and we still decided to go. Atleast we were the first to take the first step...
The day came too... the much awaited day to meet and have fun as we used to in our good ol' days... It all started on a very early flight to Lonavala.. very early here i mean.. really early.. had to be at the airport by 4. A flight till Pune.. and here we took the cab to Lonavala. Luggages piled up, early morning stop at the Dhaba to get just a cup of tea, u must be joking.. i was hungry and all we get was tea... ok.. our journey continued to the much awaited green place. But wait, where has all the greenry gone? it was rather brownery. Whts wrong with the place? ...ahn. we had taken the wrong time of the year.. and chennai claimed to be a better place. But cant keep cribbing about it all the time when we had the next 3 days to be spent here. But the hotel turned out to be a heaven, with spa, good food, nice cozy rooms and most of all good friends to have fun.
Three days of watching sunset together, climbing the karla caves, looking at awe at the beautiful built caves, playing cards, watching movie at lonavala, buying chikki, talking about the booth bungalow, playing pranks of dropping me at the booth bungalow, buying things on the roadside shops, the togetherness at the indian-grand-canyon, shopping at pune, running for our flight, no matter how brown the place was our three days was really a good break, though L, G and M missed it, we sure to make it next time for that... our three days ended so short
Looking forward for our next meet....
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