Sunday, April 27, 2008

19th-20th April: Goa-vaasis'/Pune-vaasis'/mumbai-vaasis get together in Mumbai

19th
-->wait in dadar
6 fiends from goa and 3 more from pune were supposed to reach dadar at 4 in the morning.I, abhi and sylvan were supposed to receive them at the station.But then we came to know(at around 4) that they were behind schedule and would reach by 5.30.So i slept again(this after i was already ready to leave) as we decided to reach the station at 6am.At 6 when I,abhi and sylvan met to leave for dadar, they told me that the train was yet to reach kalyan station and that it would probably reach at 7 at dadar.So we waited outside their place and at 7 we left for dadar station.there we got to know that the train had to wait for more than an hour at kalyan station and that it would be even more late.

Then chris and gautam dev also decided to show up at dadar station.Even they had got up early to recieve this people at theire place.. but since the train was late,they too came to the station.We took the oppotunity of the delay to explore dadar(e).We just walked around dadar and visited a swami narayan temple.When we reached back to the station, we met stanley(natasha's bf), who had come to recieve her.

-->arrival-->travel to malad
Finally at around 10am, the train arrived!All of them were tired by the journey,but more so because of the delay.We had already purchased the tickets from dadar to malad, where chris,dev, and ramesh stay and where the visitors would stay.We took a slow train to borivli and got down at malad.From malad station we had to take ricks to D-mart, which is close to where they stay.We were joined at the station by jeremy.
Finally all the visitors realxed a bit at the flat , and had bath.We were already behind scheduled of whatever we had planned.

-->to borivli
Finally we headed for borivli.We had decided to go to the sanjay gandhi national park and then to the kanneri caves.So we took a bus and reached borivli.There we had lunch and headed toward the entrance of national park.We were told that the bus to kanneri caves had left and that it would take some time to come back.We knew that if we went to kanneri caves it would be soon time to come back as the caves close by 6pm.So we went around the park adn then all went into the lake there in paddle boats.That was enjoyable.Since we couls not do anything much there we decided to go to bandra for shopping.

-->to bandra
So we took a train to bandra and at bandra we took them to Hill road.They shopped around there and the returned to malad to chris' place.
End of a very tiring day!

20th
to boivli,bandra, departure
Since we could not visit the kanneri caves the previous day, we decide to make the trip on this day.I, abhishek,sylvan,jeremy and sylvans cousin
went to borivli.There we were met by supriya.We all went inside the sanjay gandhi national park and waited for the others to come.

All the others came after some time and we took the bus to the kanneri caves.We showed them around the caves and by lunch time came back to malad.
We had lunch and after some rest at chris' place, we rushed to bandra to catch the bus to goa.We reached just in time.
The pune- vaasis then went to linking road as they could leave later for pune.

So like this the trip came to an end.It didnt go as planned,we missed a lot of things...but atleast all of us were together, and thats what matters.
Hope to have more such get-togethers.

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