s! Delay! Delay! Delay! It was 9:45 somethingMr. Sunny Menon’s bill cleared.. Mr. Sunny menon played a perfect host, my intention was to ask him a discount, but I didn’t coz we loved our stay so much and he, roopesh (the guy who guided us to Tall hill) and other chetta played such an amazing role. Our trip wasn’t one bit spoilt. Mr. Sunny Menon, showed us his home stay that’s under construction, showed us his daughter’s tanjore painting, it was a family full of creative people. We all took pictures of us together! And we bid adieu to Mr. Sunny Menon who was almost a part of our group now. I asked him to call me when he came to Bangalore and he asked us to go back there again, we promised him that we would..
We left Vythri by 10 only difference, we knew the directions well.. I was ripping, I knew the roads and the bends well now.. The darlings wanted to buy some spices for home (What’s a Kerala trip without a spicy purchase) I stared, first pit-stop in the first 45 mins!? Hated it…Finished shopping and clicking pictures with cowboy hats!! Took for from there, drove fast to reach our first check post at Bandipur, Karnataka police doing there election checks, cleared the first one. The bandipur forest area was beautiful, the darlings wanted more pictures I wouldn’t agree, they kept cribbing and crying.. I pulled over and braked suddenly, all of them were so happy, they clicked pictures, and I didn’t get out of the car. Started driving again and this time I told them that am not going to stop anywhere else, they agreed.
Saw another beautiful place which even I liked, didn’t want the children to curse me, so stopped again, and surprised them! Clicked their pics, started driving again… was driving quite fast this time.We reached Mysore by 12:30. To my horror the great people pissed me off by saying that they wanted to go to Mysore Palace. They had absolute majority, so we went. Mysore palace was ok, crowded heavily (what else could you expect during
a summer vacation weekend) the darlings were repenting their decision, now. Came out of the palace after 90 mins.. I was cursing the kids by now!! They were cursing themselves too..Lunch!?! Where @ RRR! This time we didn’t have to search too long, all of them directed us well. We walked into a jam packed RRR waited for a good 25 mins before we got a seat, ate some delicious biryani, it was worth the wait. I belted happily! Got out had a nice sweet pan, it was 3:30-4. I’d have loved to take a good 2 hour sleep but time to get back home. I had to meet this fri
end of mine.. I needed to actually, so I was speeding. Sunday evening heavy traffic, speed breakers and election check posts, I still was averaging at 90s. Something was running on my mind, it is inexplicable, controversial but I wanted to be there by 6.We reached the city at 7, dropped off Barath by 7:30. This friend of mine who I wanted to meet called and check if I could make it. I responded negative *sad* *sad*. I felt really bad for not being able to make it.. Told that I’d talk to this person in a bit, I went off to drop Sil. We stopped for a bit for some work, I called this friend and apologized for not being able to make it. Spoke for sometime.. Felt really nice..Dropped Sil, Sil’s family members were warm and nice (Sil is the only
exception.. lol)! Dropped Sil and her prized possession, her car. Sukanya and I took an auto.. On our way, we discussed about the same thing we discussed the night before and I bid adieu to Sukanya and reached my place after a while.. this my trip came to an end.. Happy Ending.. Very happy indeed… :) *Cheers* End of Wayanad Trip! ..........Waiting for Pondy!
