Land Ahoy!!!!!

The much awaited excursion has come to an end. I had this post up by yesterday night, but the stupid current went off and my laptop wasnt charged... Had to save it elsewhere, and its taken me a freaking whole hour to locate it.

The train journey was quite fun. When we boarded the train, me, Sharadha, Lakshmi, Pavi, Swetha were alone in the boy dominated compartment. Runi was left alone in the other one... So Swe and Pavi went there to give her company till the train started. I found out that Lakshmi's grandfather knew my mom for abt 15 or so years, which turned out pretty interesting...

Well, suddenly KPKG and Rammurthy came up to our bay and asked us to take our bags and follow him and so we did. While we were halfway through, KPKG asks us to go back. We were walking back and forth in the compartment, when the teachers came up with a brilliant idea and shifted alll the boys in this compartment to the other one, and all the girls here.

While at it, we somehow settled. I wanted the upper berth.... It was agreed that me, Lakshmi and Sharadha will take the three berths, two in the actual bay and the one in the side. It just happens to be my luck, Laksh went off to sleep at 12. And Sharadha wasted no time in climbing up too. I was stuck in the side berth, with UV in the berth below me :((:((:((:((

We had quite some fun, playing for some time. I just cudnt sleep... The berth was too small for me... I was practically curled over, cos there wasnt enough leg room at all. To top that, Srinivasan and Rammurthy were constantly there near my berth, using their hands as leverage on my berth to bend down and talk to UV.. It was already too small for me, and with their hands there I had practically no space.. Plus, with all the confusion, it was around 2 when they finally left. But by then, I was too hungry, and the lack of any Dairy Milks nearby was killlling me... Thankfully Sharadha was awake too, and she had some choco chip cookies with her. So there we were at 2, having choco cookies and kurkure.

Then suddenly Swetha's alarm started ringing. Pavi, who was peacefully asleep till then, just got up..

" Endha nayoda cell phone di adhu? Switch it off" and she went back to sleep. It was bloody hilarious, cos Swe kinda just jolted awake... Well, before we knew it, it was 4. All the others were sleeping. Me n Laksh, got up. We were about to go back to sleep, when someone switched the damn tubelight on, there went any chances of sleeping.... So, we went and brushed our teeth, washed our faces and came back after half an hr, cos of all the commotion that was there near the wash basin.

I tried waking Sharadha by calling her,, by tickling her..... And the only response I got was a kick and she turned and went back to sleep.

As we arrived at Salem Junction, the smell was so nauseating that it took me about an hour to finally become normal again.... The bus journey up hill was pretty dizzy as far as I can remember. Was feeling pretty sick actually, cos of the empty stomach...

All I remember clearly was AK and Ajay imitating the Orbit White ad...

As we reached Sterling, most of the people in my van were all taking out their jerkins and jackets and all cos of the cold.

We got room number 405, which turned out to be pretty cool. Like what Vignesh posted, this place was heaven when compared to the hotel room we had last year.

I went in to take bath first, and got hit by a shower of colllllddd water... Freeezzzinng, absolutely freezing. Took me a few mins to get over it.

Having been to Yercaud, 4 times already, I didnt really find anything remotely interesting as far as the places were concerned. The most fun we had, was during the bus rides and of course in the hotel.

The first day was pretty fine. One thing I gotta mention here is the food. It was really good, again as compared to the previous year.

There werent any teachers in my van, so it was pretty noisy. We saw gilli, which was crappy.... AK got Love Actually and Troy, and all the time was spent as to which movie to see, so we never saw the movie at all....

After we came back from lunch, all my friends had gone to another room. I wanted to charge my cell phone, so I came back to our room and was in the process of plugging in the charger, when someone rang the bell.. Went out to see who was there.. Aishwarya was asking me to come and take a pic of her, in the balcony. Was about to go in and take the room key, when I spotted a monkey there in the corridor. It was just sitting there so I just turned around. Gut feeling told me to turn back, and the monkey started chasing me...

I was so damn terrified.. TERRRIFFIED... I ran till the end of the corridor, would have come to a dead end if I had run even an inch more... But thanfully it just turned and went away..

By God, I was so damn scared that my heart almost stopped for a minute. But by this time, my room door had slammed shut with the key inside. So I went and asked for a master key in the reception, when Rammurthy spotted me n asked for the reason.

As I told him, he started to laugh manically... Was so affronted... And someone walked by then, dont remember who, and Ramu went to that guy, whoever he was and started narrating what happened. He then proceeded to give me a nice narrative of how the monkey chased some other guys... And how he had to go all the way till their room and open it for them to go inside....
Somehow the word spread to Srinivasan sir too, and throughout the trip there onwards, both of them were teasing me... In local language "kalaichifying"..

The bus rides were pretty funny, with Satyaki trying to dance and Pradhum assisting him and all that. AK was arguing about "Hips dont lie" and Shakira, and it turned out to be really humourous

The campfire was pretty decent. I gotta admit, Madurai Meeta Sundarapandian, wouldnt have been my first guess, but it was cool. .And The naked gun 33 1/3 the final insult, was a pretty good movie too....

But overall, UV was sooooo biased...

Will post the pics with the next post.....

Shru