Yesterday was a rather eventful day. when the Shende family (shaantanu, neelima and your truly) decided to celebrate differently.
off we went at 7 am to our destination .. Gorai beach.
the empty roads, speeding skoda and rocking music added a special ambience to the much anticipated day long picnic.
just past 9 am we were thru the ritual of an omlette bread and tea breakfast .. and the lovely shore, with the high tide just picking up beckoned. we took the car on the beach and found a small shanty restaurant to park.
the next few hours were full of incoming high tide, a game of cricket and playing in the raging water of the sea.
at about 11 we thought , we have had enuff and much against a ranting and non co-operative shaantanu , we decided to head back home..... then we realised that how can we take the car back to the road as the shore was now being washed out by the high tide. the hotel manager shook us to reality by announcing that ' we can go only by 4 pm' as thats when the water level will ease out enuff to let the car pass. that was a blessing in disguise..
we found a nice spot under some coconut trees , laid out the multi purpose picnic sheet and out the came the car pillows, water bottles and all other amenities in the car to enable us to last out the next 4 hours, stranded !!
more cricket, chatting, some beers and lemonade amidst 1000's of dancing bhang intoxicated celebrators (remember 'rang barse'), barbeque mutton being cooked and smelly wild horses. !!!!!
the time just flew until we suddenly realised that the tide had indeed gone by ...
we packed up .. and off we went back tired, tested and with a part of the minds' RAM etching the
events of the last few hours .... to be saved permanently in memories of an eventful holi !!
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