18-Jan-2013... It was a bright sunny day. As usual I had to take a planned (:P) for a totally Unplanned trip. It all started wit Thailand but konjam take diversion eduthu it ended up in Shimoga... Never mind..a trip is a trip no matter which place it is... :P In fact dis tym it was not my frnds who accompanied me.. it was altogether a different gang and dey call themselves as 'JayKatRen' @ TriAura.. Never go by their names.. :P JaykatRen are none other than my mom and & her 2 close frnds since coll... (Jaya, Kathy & Renu)... 30+ yrs (JKR - Correct me if I'm wrong :D) of frndship n still continues.. Time for them to save themselves from an evil eye :P 3 yrs back, the 3 gr8 women had been for the North India trip all alone covering the places till Kashmir. I thought it was not a big deal and Nw, I totally regret after seeing de pics dey ve captured.. Oh man, I shud say 'It was mind-blowing'. Hmmmm....
Shimoga... It was JayKatRen, Nivi & Buchi (jaya aunty's successor & her exact replica :P) !! Left blore at around 1 in de noon by Car wit de packed lunch... And so much of Snacks as if we wer going for a week's trip :P Oru vazhiya blore cross pannom.. Thot of having a break near Tumkur & had our lunch..If i remembr correctly, it was Veg Pulao , Yummy Panneer Curry, Chips... and No perfect meal ends without curd rice & pickle :P Der was a handloom shop nearby whr v did some kind of mini shopping and continued our journey.. Played cards for half of de journey... It was almost 7 pm wen v reached Shimoga @ Shivamogga... But its not de place whr v halted.. V travelled a little further... It was the Matthuga Homestay tat we chose... De way to the homestay was a little scary & isolated situated amidst the Areca plantation... However de cottages wer really really Gud & much satisfactory! Perhaps, it was de perfect tym for dinner... Oru full round dinner saaptu poi thoongnadhu dhan nyabagam iruku :P
Got up a little early de nxt day..Apdi Ipdi nu ready aagi v headed for de breakfast.. Since v wer staying close to Jog falls, v thot we wil cover tat spot first...JOG Falls - Pictures la dhan paathurukan avlo water... Anga pona v had to search whr de water falls was...:P V wer jst roaming arnd de place, captured some snaps.. And had a 'hahahahaha' chat as ever:P Den it was Talakalale dam... Waited for sometime enjoying the flowing water and went for Boating... Sema ragalai :P... Highlight ye Jaya Aunty's poses for pictures only! :P Der was one remarkable incident tat happened wen we wer abt to end de journey. While de person who drove de boat was helping us to step out from it, Jaya Aunty shook de boat so much tat she was almost abt to push him into water :P Aunty, any revenge ?! Huh?!:P Bak 2 de homestay for Lunch.. Rested a bit... and started bak 2 a place called Sigandoor wit lots & lots of expectations & excitement (Google to see its speciality :P) Aana Adhellam oru kurugiya kaalathuku dhan :P Launch Ippa varum Appa varum nu wait panni 2 launch'a miss panni 3rd launch la oru vazhiya allow pannaanga... De Revolt den began.. Adhu varaikum Enga gang la oru Vijayashanthi (Kathy aunty :P) irundhadhu theriyaama pochu! 'Poda' nu aunty anniku sonnadhu inniku varaikkum Echo aagudhu...! I salute yu aunty :P Prob yennana dey wanted to giv preferences to de local buses and thereby asked us to wait for de 4th launch 2 come! Dey tested our patience 2 de core tat v thot of dropping de plan & atlast came bak 2 our homestay.. Fun begins from nw on... V started playing cards and were laughing so loud so tat our voices wud ve reached miles :P Gud tat de homestay didnt charge us extra for our midnight chit-chat :P
De nxt mrng, v vacated de homestay after havin our brkfst... V had planned to go for a jungle safari near Shimoga... Though they had each & every animals locked up in their own enclosures, we shouldnt call it a "Zoo'..It is a 'Jungle safari' according to dem :P But yeah, it was worth visiting it once! Wide array of wild animals yu cud see!! It was almost lunch time... So as per de plan, v had it in 'Hotel Royal Orchid' and it was a tr8 from Jaya aunty for No Reason I guess :P After having a heavy lunch, v left de place wit a heavy heart! Since the driver who accompanied us was based out of KA, he had only Kannada songs and very few Tamil songs out of which one was Kalasala from Osthi... My mom asked him to play tat song so repeatedly tat at one stage (Nw it has b'com Buchi's mrng wake-up song it seems :P and her inspiration for tat song is none othr than my mom ), we wer pushed to a situation tat we had to watch a Kannada movie for passing de tym... No doubt we cudnt make anything out of de dialogues tat went on in de movie... De real fun started here.. Buchi and my mom started giving voice dub for de entire movie by having de audio in Mute.. I can bet tat de director of de movie wud ve commited suicide by den if he had listened to de voice dub given... Infact dey changed a serious violent movie into a full-tym comedy movie :P Having such entertainment in place, we didnt actually realise de tym... Reached Blore around 8 in de night and here ends our trip :)
V initially thot tat de idea of 5 women going for a trip is just a pie in de sky but V did it :P and I totally thoroughly completely enjoyed it and so did others..:) Btw, thank yu so much buchi.. yu were de sole reason for making dis happen ! :)
Cheers & Bubye!!! :)
