Wednesday, January 7, 2009

A perfect Christmas – 2006

Thursday, 08-Jan-2009
This article is on 2006 Christmas Which I spent in Saputara with one of my best friend Shrenik. What a Christmas, we thoroughly enjoyed although we spent good money to enjoy it.
Let me tell you about Shrenik first. We are a school friend and as I believe school friend are best friends, we too best friend of each other. Anyway it is different that now a day we are not in touch on frequent basis but still he calls me from Bangalore and I used to call him from Mumbai at least one in a month or specific occasion. Best memories we share are cricket, playing card, Navaratri and off course movie. We used to bunk tuition class and school in order to watch movie, cricket and playing card. It was indeed happiest time for both of us.
In December 2006, I used to work in Mumbai and he was in Ankleshwar working in Fertilizer Company. On phone we have decide to meet each other either at my place or his. Most liked thing about Shrenik is his willingness, he hardly used to say No to any proposal, whether it is to bunk school for movie, tuition class for match or anything. This time same thing happen, He is ready for Idea of meeting each other.
After discussion on phone Instead of meeting at my or his place we have decided to meet at central place. We have decided to celebrate Christmas in Saputara, intension behind is just to pass good time as we both like each other’s company and not met each other for almost 5 year. That is how we planned Saputara.
We both met at Navasari, Central place for both of us to go Saputara. We almost met around 10 p.m. on Saturday. Then we went to bus stand Navasari, there we came to know that bus will come around 12. So we went for dinner, we have chosen one good Punjabi restaurant. I must mention that it was nice dinner. Then we went bus stand. Remember it was Christmas time so there was huge traffic as all the buses were running full. So we prepared for fight to get our seat. Bus came full, so we got our place around Steps of entrance. We had fight with driver and conductor on some issues I do n’t like to mention it here. Then we reach Saputara around 3 am in night. We started searching hotels but all managers or assistant of hotels were sleeping so it was hard to get room in hotel. Most of the hotels were full due to holiday season. In between we able to find room in good hotel, but in negotiation we became too aggressive with manager and then he requsted us to leave his hotel. At last we able to find a room in top most hotel Kite – a Lake resort. Well placed hotel and if we have to rank hotel in Saputara than this one come at 1st place. We paid 5000 for 1 Day for one double room and breakfast, lunch and dinner included. It was costly trip but we enjoyed it at best.
In next morning we went for boating we almost did it for 2 hours. We thoroughly enjoyed boating, while boating we were cherishing our school time memory. Then we did horse riding that is again for more than 2 hours. We were riding horse for first time as I was scared of horse, but believe me Horse riding is a fun, one should not miss it. We played Video game near by lake, we had good food during trip. It was indeed good time we passed together. We did boating, good food, fun, horse riding, ropeway. Is anything missing to complete this trip? Yes thrill, adventure was missing so while coming back we have decided not to travel by bus. We took Tempo and Stand behind open place. There are steep Ghat in Saputara during those curvy turning we are also moving for one corner to other in tempo. Believe me it was impossible to Travel till Chikhli like this. So we decided to get down on near by town. But we enjoyed that ride also.
Now we both are married and we both get good partner so some times in future we do plan thing like this.

2 comments:

Shrenik said...

Dear Devdat,

I was amazed to read this blog and how perfectly you have elobrated our time with full of feelings. Believe me, we are best friend and will remain the best friend. We are the one who enjoyed together, shared our feelings (good and Bad) together becasue we understand eachother very well and now we both are at very well positioned and well setelled because our dreams were to be on top. I am happy to see you at this position. I would like to invite you with family here at Bangalore sometime or we can meet outside as of last time but during off season so we get good discount. I wish to write hundreds of pages about our friendship but rather than that let me give you a call now.

Thanks again for making my day with wonderfull blog - I appreciate it.

Your best friend,
Shrenik

chirag majithiya said...

Dear Devdat,

what a nice blog again, I really appreciate it. To have a memory of a true friend is always making us smile and remembering the old days we have spent with him...

in fact i have heard the story from you directly but still i have enjoyed reading it again in your words,

really it has become a big thing for us to remain in touch with our old friends. Sometimes even i think that at time of our college days we were enjoying together all the day with each other's company.

Even if any friend doesn't meet for few hours then also we were unhappy even we used to meet each other's group by going to their colleges,

I must mention that i am badly missing my college days at v v nagar. we should make plan to meet sometime at v v nagar with our partners. don't you think so?