Trip to wagamon and the end of a great camera....

I was looking forward to this vacation... not that i was excited to meet all my family... i just wanted to get away from the polluted delhi and get some fresh air from the mountains... so when Melissa was joining me to my home vacation, i was excited to put Wagamon as our first stop...

Surprisingly few of my family took leaves to come down to thodupuzha and join to make it a family picnic... it all started great... we packed bottles and bottles of water, appam, banana... and other homemade stuff... we set out in two cars; me and sherry joining mable and johny and Melissa who came together from aluva... Jacob and jerryn with their family in jacob’s car...

We stopped by many points on our way up... clicking pictures, posing... the other day mable was commented so much about how my camera stayed on for so long; 6 and half years without any problem... just so happened that after i clicked her picture, next point my camera just stopped functioning... i tried all; switching it off, cleaning the lens... nothing worked... the trip was going great, the first one in our vacation, i feeling so terrible...

i loved that camera, and i was proud of the way i kept that, how many pictures in took in that... the camera i bought with the first honorarium i ever got in my life; from FIAS for the talk i gave there... it’s no more... all i could do that moment was to console myself, forget about it and join others in the fun...

The rest of the trip was no less than fun... we drove straight to a resort near the pine valley for lunch... reaching there i realised i was bitten by some blood sucking leeches... my feet was all bloody and i didn’t even realise that... it turned out i was not the only one affected....

After lunch we moved to pine valley... valley looked spooky... had a feel of the setup of a scary movie... clicked lots of pics there as well.. everyone was eager to be at the meadows... we drove over there, because the clouds were gathering and there was a change of rain... as soon as we reached there, instead of relaxing, we opened our boxes and started attacking mom’s appam and beef... well, it looked like the whole trip was for the fooding... but it was a nice picnic over there...

We spent some time there till it started raining... we, meli and mable did some gangnam style over there for the photographer... J it was fun...

Thick clouds started gathering and we had to leave.... me and meli were filling our lungs with all those fresh air.... we knew the moment we r back in delhi, its all those polluted air we will be getting...

By the time we decided to visit St. Alphonsa’s church and turned to that road, hell broke loose and it started raining heavily... we somehow managed to reach the church... There were lots of people visiting the church even in heavy rain... we stayed there for sometime, prayed at St. Alphonsa’s tomb...

The journey back to thodupuzha was hard as well... it was dark and it was raining... we reached home safely and all we wanted was to crash and sleep... because next day was awaiting us with a long trip to Trivandrum...