Wayanad.. The dream continued.. :)

All of them woke up. I was the last one to get up. All of them were looking at me with absolute curiosity. I woke up.. good mood.. started talking to all of them, including Silly. It was peaceful. after a while, Barath and Sukanya started.. the way you both behaved last night we thought this would continue and were really upset and look at the 2 of you, you’re so nice to each other now. We both smiled. We got hot water to shower, we started getting ready, Sukanya went first, Barath next, then Silly and then me. I got out, got read and the girls were getting ready like they were going to walk the ramp or somethin'. they got ready, we had a breakfast appam and Puttu! I liked it and the others didn’t.

Mr. Sunny gave us a tourist booklet and suggested that we go to Pookote lake, Soojipaara falls and Kuruva Island, We started, we headed to Pookote lake, Pookote lake was the mallu version of our Ulsoor lake. It was amidst hills and forests, people were boating.. looked commercial. Not my kinda place, I prefer nature, primitive and raw areas.. All of a sudden my expectation from The God’s own country dropped, I was sure that the waterfalls would be something similar and I was kinda disappointed, the best part; I never express all this, it was too sunny, so we didn’t go boating (thankfully), there was this aquarium, I was very curious to see the fish, went in to see freakin Gold fish, Angels, Tiger fishes! I was mindforked by now! Lol.. After the so-called aquarium, we started to Soochipaara falls.

This place was 35-40 kms. We reached the place with no pit-stops, entered and parked, were asked to carry water as it was 1km walk from where we parked, I was like 1km I can easily do it, no water thanks.. We started walking and look on my right it was a deep valley and on my left was the mountain (Soochipaara hill, I suppose). It was kind of downhill, so I reached there first, since I’m slim, I did this almost effortlessly, the girls were panting for breath and Barath escorted the girls like a pure gentleman. All of reached the falls and I must admit that I LOVED IT! It was the raw, crude, primitive country side water fall, no commercial element, it was a lil crowded as there were some college/school students. Barath and I stripped shamelessly, went and drenched ourselves in the water, I was a lil scared as it was rocky and slippery, so If I slipped, I’d have a bad fall. The scare lead to a shitty feeling! (Literally!!!) We were in water for a few minutes… and then the girls wanted to go back. We started walking, now it’s uphill, we were tired!! And the shitty feeling! I was helpless! There was another waterfall, Barath and I saw it and returned immediately. We had to walk up, they were selling butter milk and lemon juice, I can’t drink or eat nothing! For obvious reasons, I kept asking every vendor if there was loo.

We reached the place where we started, there was nice lunch place, we decided to have lunch and I can’t handle an upload coz I had no bandwidth, I needed to download first! So I asked people, all of them directed me towards the entry where there was cop sitting, this was a mallu cop, so I wasn’t allergic, asked him where the loo was and he smiled and directed me to another guy, now I was freaking upset, I’d download anytime! I walked up to this man, asked him for the loo, he said the most horrifying thing that I’ve heard this year, “the download is supposed to be inside the forest, in the open” I haven’t done this in ages! Having said, he gave me a mug of water and said go deep side but beware of snakes! I was…. Inexplicable feeling! I went slightly deep, could hear weird noises, download Complete.

Now I was relieved and hungry. Had lunch, we set off to Kuruva, it was a good 2 hr drive from Soochipaara. I enjoyed the drive; we drove thru a lot of nice scenic places!! Then saw a nice cashew tree, nice fragrance! And we kept asking people how far Kuruva is and everyone gave us consistent responses, the response was 1KM! I drove a total of 9, 1KM! and then we reached Kuruva, we saw some interesting foreigners and then it started raining.. The 3 darlings went out to get wet in the rain. I sat in. I didn’t want to catch a cold and end up with a fever, so I stayed in.

We waited for a while, looked like it wouldn’t stop, so we were heading back!! It was 6 already and we had 60 kms to cover and I wasn’t very happy about driving in the dark but what the heck, I did. We had a nice dinner!! Delicious fried rice, KP (Kerala Parota), chicken Manchurian! People loved it, I didn’t like it much coz It lacked nativity; I’d have preferred nada choru, some gravy, avail and pradhaman! :) But no complaints, the dinner was good, Barath wanted "the refreshments" yet again, others weren’t keen.. Since Barath didn’t have majority, we did away with "refreshments". We reached home, Mr. Sunny Menon wanted to know how it was, we had a nice chat and I felt nice talking to him.

We were scheduled to leave early next morning (by 6), Our timekeeper Barath kept an alarm for 4:30, Sukanya and Barath retired to bed, Silly and I were arguing for some time and then I went to bed, I wasn’t sleepy; I woke up Sukanya and asked her if she was sleeping (Cheeky.. Cheeky ME)

Barath was fast asleep, Sukanya and I started talking and she started telling about her family- her mom, I was inspired after I heard the about her mom, I intend to write about it after I meet Sukanya’s mom. While Sukanya was telling us about her mom, she sat up, so my first victim lost her sleep.. We spoke for some more time while Sukanya wanted to check what sil was doing, Sil was sitting in the other room listening to music, so I got up to check what our lady Sil is upto. Silly was snoring away to glory; I woke her up and asked her to come on sleep on her bed.. Sil came in and sukanya complained about how I woke her up.. Sil laughed and we started talkin about.. Sil also joined the conversation, as soon as Sil came in Barath also woke up (my 2nd victim.. yay!)

We all started talking.. discussed all our stories. spoke about the good, bad and ugly (ugly took precedence)!

Shared my perspective about a lot of things, Sukanya was amazed, her total outlook towards something was changing (for good). ..Spoke a lot, saw the time, it was 3! So I asked Barath to please switch off his alarm since we knew that we could get up in 3 hours and I can’t drive with just 3 hours of sleep. Off went the alarm.. We all SLEPT end of Day 2.. :)