| One of my most recent most awaited trip of the year. It was long 5 years before we went for a trip. Hemanth, Gopi, Gopal, Kamal, Vimal and me boarded Pandiyan Express train on a Thursday evening from Egmore Railway Station. A small good team started off to Kodai. With lots of excitement we started the trip. It was a tough job to get my parents agree for a trip like this. But somehow I managed to get permission for the trip. Just before leaving to the station, I went and met her at Creamy Inn. It was after a long time that i was leaving her alone for 4 continuous days. Ya I was feeling bad and I missed her too. But the trip had to go on well, so I had to get back to my fun trip shoes, to get this trip started. We met and had ice cream and she dropped me at the station. This was something that never happened till date. It was me who would always drop her and this feel was good.
The train left the station and we were all very excited about the trip. But hemanth was very upset by the behavior of Kamal and Gopi. He had a very long face and did not talk to us for a very long time. It finally took time for him to get back to normal. Kamal and Gopi had gone to a bar near the station and had boozed and they were in full swing. So this irritated the others as the other were not getting well with the mood. The journey continued and we slept after having our dinner. The next day early morning around 4AM we reached Madurai Railway Station. I had already booked a cab from the station to our resort in Kodai. So we to a tea shop near the station and then proceed to the car park to meet the driver. The driver took time to get freshen up as he was sleeping all night and we had to wake him up. So once he got freshed up, we started to Kodai by road. I liked the journey. It took nearly 3 to 4 hours for us to reach Kodai. We went to the resort directly. It was a good place, the climate was not so cold as we expected. The resort was already occupied by some Kerala tourists. So we had to wait for a couple of hours for them to vacate the resort and get it cleaned. After settling down we got ready to go for our sight seeing. Ya I was a bit upset, because everybody was so sluggish and did not want to go for sight seeing. Gopal got ready and he accompanied me for the sight seeing. Finally we had to push everybody to get ready for the sight seeing. The breakfast was ready and we had our breakfast and started our sightseeing tour. The cab driver was ready with the cab and we went to some real good places. Deep pine forest was our first place and it was really good. As the name says, it is a very big pine forest with a small waterfall in the middle of the forest. We took some nice snaps in this forest, and then proceeded to other places in and around Kodai. We had a good trip that day and then we went back to the resort. Night was real fun as we all boozed, except Gopal and had loads of fun. We went to bed real late and got up early next morning. I don't know how this happens, but the next morning after I booze, I get up early ;) The next day we started our trip again for sight seeing. This time it turned out to be a real boring day. Kamal and Gopi spoiled the whole trip. They boozed early in the morning and they could not have fun at all. The entire time they were sleeping in the back seat of the cab. This day was really sick. I really got fed up and really felt bad for coming for a trip with these people. While we were returning to the resort our cab ran out of petrol and we had to walk nearly 2 to 3KM up hill. This added to the fury. I was really irritated. But had no other choice then walking up the hill. Finally reached the resort and was really tired. So we took some rest and then had our dinner. Ya today also we boozed before dinner, but this time there was no fun in boozing. I was not in mood to have fun with them. I normally don't like to drink without good company. Yes I am social drinker but I drink for fun. But that night was not fun and it was full of irritation. The next day we planned to leave to Madurai to do a small sight seeing in Madurai and then board the train to Chennai. So we reached Madurai by around 2.00PM and went to a lodge nearby. We booked a room, washed our faces and started our visit to Madurai Meenakshi Temple. No wonder this temple was nominated for the 7 wonders of the world. It was magnificent temple with extra ordinary architecture. We were nearly lost inside the temple. It was so huge that we could not finish seeing the temple in three hours. Then we went to a hotel to have our dinner and then started by train back to Chennai. On reaching Chennai, I was more revealed, because I was out of that stupid trip. Yes it was a real awful experience for me. I did not like it at all. We planned the trip to be a stress buster, but by the end of the trip it seemed to build up more stress. Anyway our final bachelors trip seemed to end up in stress. I guess this is the first trip that ended like this for me. I pray that this should be the last one too to end like this.
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