So there they left for another outing,the gang with their paraphernalia packed up and ready but whither to? This is an all adventure and action packed venture to the Scantily clad Stony hill called the Skandagiri..How contended and peaceful would my Saturday be otherwise under my blanket ,but for some stupid idea by some ishtupid to conquer the hill(who do they think I am Tenzing or some thapa?dont ask ma loving friends lest the say I am!).Phew its so lovely to have people poke you up in the morning as if they are duty bound to wake their friends just in case they wake up earlier once in a blue moon(that blue moon always turns up when I am amidst) and let u know that they have..Dear Rash now I know why they call u RASH..I know.Poor Nish was more unlucky as he was frightful of the consequences of sleeping, while his friend was being tutored by Madam R.(u know who..)Mri was already up and ready by 6 ,while I lay cuddled up.Finally everyone was ready to go ,but we had to pick up our usual suspect Miss Sam, poor femme fatale ..y??.... I will tell you after this line break!
As we tried to stuff outselves in the back of the car, which included just the four of us, I found one leg xtra. Aiayla…then I found it was Sami’s who was seated to the extreme corner ,but her legs found way to reach to the other end. All along the drive it was extremely foggy and we were all the more worried as Nish had promised to show some of Bond’s driving skills that morning. Finally after we nearly crashed into a diversion board,we managed to reach the base camp!
Then we started our trek to the top ,huffing and puffing,finding our way where there were none. In between we found a lot of fellow adventurers, who had come to do timepass!(they would hardly reach 20% of the trek and then quit) But we managed to keep climbing despite a lot of difficulties as Nish & Co had probs climbing and we were fast running out of water.But still we found more time to take rest ,than trek and still reach the top.Once we were there , we found a small tea shop in a cave,much better than the one near Manyata office!We feasted ourselves on bread omlette and tea.And then shooting.We tried all the familiar poses, enough to give monkeys a complex!After a lot of time spent idling away we finally decided to move down.
But before we came down ,we got a valuable bottle of water from the chai walla.Please don’t ask the source.Rash swore that she would never drink it and so did I.But by the time we came down ,the bottle was over and we had drunk the last drop of it.The trek below was painful as we lost way and all were tired.Luckily the chai walla came along and we were safely guided home.But the climb down was more adventurous, as we lost all energy and more often than not lost our brakes.The rocks were pretty steep too and we soon found that taking rest breaks would do us no harm.Poor chai walla had to wait with us,so much for being our guide.But we knew the guy would have earned his money that day!Most of us found our legs twisted and painful as fatigue soon took over.
Finally we reached Nish’s car and though it was burning like hell,because it lay exposed to sunlight all along ,we were all dead vegetables.After a refreshing lunch near the outskirts of the city ,we were soon driving to Rash’s place and we were just waiting to hit The Bean Bags!
