With the hope that the first part was interesting below is the second part....
In the night I called my parents enquiring about the my aunt...and my joy knew no bounds when I was told that I had a little sister to play with.....she was born on 26th August...2002...
It was arnd 10 pm in the night that I was cleaning all the mess of my bag. I found the copies of introduction letters of my college...given by our principal....and was to throw them out...when my friend requested not to throw them..and if I had done that I think it would have been the biggest blunder in my life....thinking why??? it would be answered....arnd 12 in the night...after a long discussion on what to do...we had decided to go to Bombay and to meet the expenses we decided to the keep the luggage in the cloak room at the station which would save a lot of money to go to Bombay....as we were in college..every rupee was important to us.....with the same idea...we went to sleep keeping whatever alarms we could that we should get up by 5 in the morning as we had train for Bombay at 7.50 AM...and it was then the fastest to reach Bombay....by 10.50 am......
It was 5.30 on a Tuesday morning....I wake up to see myself behind schedule by 30 mins.....after an hour we were all ready with the luggage to start for Bombay. We visited the temple of lord Shiva....near the hotel...and start our walk towards the railways station which was 10 mins away....we at first divide ourselves...one group to buy the tickets and other to keep the luggage in the cloak room...I gleefully accepted the receipt of the luggage and ran towards the train which was about to leave...as the train speeds towards its destination....we see the beauty of the nature....thick greenery engulfed in rain..mountains....and the tunnels....really it was a great experience...traveling through the beauty of the nature....we reach the lonavala station...which was in the midst of heavy rain......meanwhile we show the TC the tickets...2 hours pass eventfully and we finally smell the air of the financial capital....."BOMBAI NAGARIA"....a dream of every small man to become big after coming here.....we get down the train at Dadar station and we are caught the railway police for not paying reservation fee...of Rs 20/- each which was never told to us by the TC in the train....aaah...we were cursing the TC who was standing beside us as if he didn't know anything....1 hour passes and we were in a big mess....as the station master asked us to pay of fine of whooping 3600/- INR for the 18 members....we slowly started explaining that we were coming from a college from Hyderabad and we didn’t know all the rules....and it was our luck he accepted our explanation...but now he wants the proof that we were from the college....I realize that we have the introduction letters...once we showed the same to him...he took a copy of that and sent all of us to Juhu as Bombay had of colleges there...in a local train.....Local train in Bombay about which I had lot of fascination...their speed...accuracy of the services...network...covering every nook and corner of the metro.....it was a great feeling to be traveling in it...even though it was no different than the local trains in my own city...
Once we were in the train to Juhu...we sighed relief and started for shopping....bought something for each of us.....ate some junk food and started straight to the Juhu beach...in a metered auto......which we had seen in the TV or in the movies of bollywood...all those years till then.....we played in the water until it was dusk....at the each while returning I realize that the receipt of the cloak room is lost in the water...and all of us were worried about the luggage and we had time to think about it....we moved ahead to go to the Gateway of India....at first to Santa Cruz in a local train then in a metered taxi....it was a full moon day and sea was at bay.....the tide hitting the coast with great speed....we spent an hour and it was arnd 9.30 in the night...we made a plan to go to lonavala and khandala...one of the friends pulled information from the taxi driver that there was a train at 11.30 pm ...which goes to Lonavala at 3.30 am...immediately we make a plan to go to Lonavala...the next day....we buy tickets and realize that we have to sit in the train..and some of us should be awake as Lonavala would come at that odd hour of the night......after traveling for nearly 4 hours we reach..Khandala..I got down and sat on a bench on the platform facing to the opposite side as we had planned to alight the train at the
khandala station....to my horror I see that none of my friends got down and the train has started.....I ran back to train and luckily boarded the train...
We get down at the Lonavala station and we sleep in a room...thanks to the station master...which also helped us from the cold and the rain outside....it was arnd 7 in the morning....I get up and got ready for what I think was one of the most memorable day with friends in life.....
To name some who were on the tour were me, vivekanand, potti mahesh(as we used to call him), medchal mahesh, harsha, srikanth, shanker, kranthi.....would add as I remember them...
Would cover the rest of the tour in the third and concluding part.....hope I am not toooooo boring.....
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