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Sunday - We had to decide how many days to stay here now, return the same day or the next

Eventually everyone debated and we came to a conclusion that we visit the kurvadweep island and head to mysore and probably , if time permits we could do some sight seeing there. after a so called good break fast, we left to the island. The island was awesome, and we really enjoyed the clear cool water in the scenic environment. We could have spent a whole day here though.But the call for home was stronger. So left the place by after noon , in a hope that we would reach pandavpura by dinner. We had a friend's uncle's military hotel to feed us.At around 8 we reached the military hotel, it was awesome and we cherished all the varities and everyone was too tired to talk.We reached bangalore at 12.30 and had a good sleep!!!

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Saturday - At about 6.00 am we reached the sultan bathery check post and our driver ran with his documents to commercial check post to get a clearance.

While he was gone we slowly got down out of our TT, only to realize that we were in Queue. I mean... many ppl had chosed wayanad as thier holiday destination.We caught up sith some college girls and guys who were busy smoking and enjoying thier chai. After we got the clearance we moved in search of a hotel, where we could clean ourselves up. I guess this was a planned trip, coz we never got a place to stay :-) every hotel turned us down, seeing the hooligan in us :-). With great difficulty we managed to get a cheap room and we rented 2 of them. 4 in each. Some of the speciality of the room was - No flush in the loo, No hot water for bath, Just one electrical outlet to charge any of your electronic devices, No rug and ....No amount of begging pleading or even offerring money could get us hot water for the bath.Some how each one managed to take bath in the super cold water and still manage to stay warm:-) I guess we were still high on spirits..We went to a nearby India Coffee house in hope that we would get some neat nice food. Unfortunately, you know the drill - coconut oil fried items which only double screws your appetite.We then went off to the edkal caves - Man , no one quite told me that it was trekking place, armed with a cheap chappal i went with them. I felt too cheated even to complain. I had sore feet. The trek was really cool, if you are fit and one thing is for sure, it really showed me how fit I am and i need to work out double now. hehehe.. not that i am working out now.With great difficulty we reached the top.Wow what a panaromic view.It was awesome and i forgot all the pain after reaching there. It took us more than a hour to get there, as we stopped here and there for our lousy photographer to click a few snaps, which i intend to upload and also to help the needy girls, who were equally enthusiatic to reach the peak :-) We spent a solid time up there and decided to desend before it got late, out mantra was not to miss the next spot :-) the soochipoora falls :-)Once we got down, we were so dehydrated that we decided to have tender coconut rather than lunch. Also it was almost 4 when we got down.We gulped the cool, sweet tender coconut and tried to recover the lost staminaOnce back to our Van, we headed straight to soochipoora falls, Man the ppl of kerala are really hostile and when asked for directions, they really showed that they don;t entertain tourism. We almost covered 30 kms in the opposite direction, until a kind samatarian s showed the correct route.Soochipoora falls was beautiful, it had a nice water fall and on the otherside a panoramic view against the mountain. We managed to watch both. But beware, do not plan both edkal caves and soochipoora falls on the same day. Soochipoora falls is reverse edkal caves :-) what i mean is , when u start moving, its easy but since we go down here, it gets really tought to get back :-) After hitting the road, we headed straight to a so called good hotel for our dinner, the boys were as hungry as they could be and the ultimate greed of mouth over stomach prevailed and we ordered food like there is no tomorrow and wasted them all. The bill was high, probably the highest ever made in that hotel :-) As we were all tired the moment we hit the bed, we were like snoring :-) in spite of aching body.

Friday - We left bangalore at about 11.00 am and hardly had we made progress , when some one dropped a boulder :-)

Instead of the planned 12 ppl only 8 were making it. So to adjust this change in ppl, our team lead Raghu changed the destination. His thoughts - Wayanad was nearer than Munnar, Wayanad had beautiful places, we would save time and money :-). I wanted a break so i gave a damn about Wayanad or Munnar.All shouted in unison and off we changed track heading to Mysore - > Gundulpet-->Sultan Bathery. Our poor TT driver was lost in direction but not in spirits, so we enquired all along to reach our destination.We stopped at a dabba on Mysore road and had our dinner. It was more like our drinks session, with everyone rolicking with the alcohol consumed. It was soooo cold that we had to get out sweaters and jackets out. The guys were pretty high on drinks and one of them wanted to play antakshari :-) I was least bothered, i can't sing, i can't remember lyrics :-) So i just sat back to enjoy the audio session.God.... at some point i felt like kicking some ppl out of the TT unable to bear thier cacophony.

It all started at a booze party,like it always does.

Trust me all the meaning full conversations take place at booze parties( read at the time of ordering the drinks and not after that).For some reasons i had not joined the team on thier previous outings, so this time they insisted me to choose a date and me not miss it. At about the same time my team had planned for an outing:-) and the same date was looking omnious. Neverthless i made a very bold decision and preferred to go my adda boys rather than my project team....So our preparation began.Atleast on paper :-) Raghu booked a Tempo traveller(TT) and that was a milestone in our preparation as no other issue was taken care of.We planned to leave bangalore on Friday and be back on Monday.Things always look rosy at the time of planning.I had a hectic week and sure enough i just made in time for the TT. All the boys were geared up for the day.

I wanted to read The Da Vinci Code, because enough people had harassed me about reading it. You haven't read the Da Vinci Code? and I think I was the only one that hadn't read it. It had been out for a some time now, and finally, it was as easy as Thiru saying, Here, I finished, and he gave it to me. It's about a quest to find truth, just in the middle of everything that's established. I think it got popular, because it's not only fiction, but it mixes in some aspects of truth, that it has people scratching their heads, saying, "Hum, could this be true?" I like the pace of the book. I felt like I was sweating, and rushing, and moving, and looking for things. The more i read, the more i felt it drew similarities with the movie - National treasure. In any case, it was fun. Fun to know that Mary Magdelene was Jesus's mistress and they had a heir who actually lives to date. I wonder what sort of research Dan had put it. All credit to him. Not many write such books which cause an uproar.