A trip that started with an edge.. bordering on fun.. a 3 hour journey of laughter and food and utter nonsense.. from clicking pictures of sleepin beauties (not literal for sure) :) to hoggin on candies yummy food items to discussin the 10 kg parcel - the weddin cake!!
arriving in almost good time to barely settle in before going partyin for the evenin - a house warmin to celebrate and 2 bachelor nites of freedom before the W-day (for the bride&groom of course).
an interesting evenin doesnt even begin to describe the events that followed - from dunking the bride in water to drowning the groom in beer (what a waste of alcohol - heard a number of people exclaim !!) to painting the head usher & brides maid with mud - all wet & sloppy (& then we styled them too - at least their hair so as to pose for the camera - not that any extra nudge was required really)
then on to erasing all of the lovely memories captured (accidently of course - u know what they say about drinking & clicking ;) - all very true i assure u)
so of course we have to start afresh & there'z never enough of clowning around if u ask me!
to the jungle jim (even if its 1am, who cares) where we teach lil Brandon tricks that leave him panting - the poor thing) and whats a jungle jim without some fancy poses or at least some attempts of them.. next up parallel bars or in this case horizontally angled..boy did my arms hurt from trying after about 10 yrs at least...
back to bed on our first nite.. should have slept late but oh no.. the village boy (as termed fondly by some) gets a helluva lot more energy here than he does in the city and that is sayin a lot since he is mostly the last one to fall asleep after a party.. so he decides to sing for us early morning (well since we slept late 9 is pretty early) unfortunately it doesnt help that he is singing one song in a loop (one or two lines specifically) and that he is almost completely off-tune.. man i wish id captured the fear on his face while trying to wake ruh..
so up we go to his house for breakfast ... and then laze around some.. while others head to the chapel to decorate it...
meet some newcomers when we reach the dorm- a lil girl whose IQ astounds us..
back to the house for lunch around when we also explore the terrace and tonks and i decide we like the mangoes on the tree and after some pretty good rustling and grabbing and squeezing through the metal bars (me being the tiniest awarded myself the honor of being tonks buddy on this one) we managed to snag 3 decent sized raw green mangoes for snacking on later --- yum yum..
so post lunch and some more lazin we feast on mangoes tendered with vinegar, chilli powder and sugar and then haul ourselves to church to continue decorating...
almost done then head to camp with the best man and grooms cuz to get some groceries.. brilliant idea strikes and we decide tonight the last bachelor/spinster nite should be fun so lets spike pani puri and have vodka puri instead.. so thrilled with ourselves we purchase the requirements..
some of the others have gone to the pool - damn i missed out on that.. but then we return with the rain on our tail.. literally.. and a late evening game of basketball till the light fades .. (this was fun to watch esp when trace kept listening to the opposing team tell her to do all the wrong things -- which she actually did, lol)
then dinner at the bride's house again -- where we laughed and joked and waited to leave to have our own fun nite .. which we did by the new dam.. with sheets spread out on the bristly ground.. vodka puri wasnt so bad till we put in the accompaniments of the damn salty boondhi.. am so glad i had the common sense to make just a lil for trial.. finally it was 2 and the bride turned in and in half an hour the groom followed suit...
couple of us moi included decided we needed sleep more while the others stayed up till about 5.30am.. remember that coz woke up to find village boy sprawled across me (where he had fallen when trying to cross beds and fell through instead)
we had invited best man rhine to room with us so was scrunched between ruh n rhine's bed and clumsy that i am, would prob explain the large purple bruise on my thigh..
woke up bright and early again thanx to our dear village boy.. gave clothes for ironing.. breakfast then lunch followed after we had visited the hall and done our bit in setting up the table pieces and rearranging the table cloths and fancy bows on the chairs.. reminsced a bit (well trace, bloss & carly did) about the good ole school days & the backstage area that held more than memories for them...
post lunch after rummaging a bit we went through carly's old albums & love letters (boy those were a lot of fun - fi did the narrating while tonks n i laughed our head off)..
new arrival - riaan with stories of his journey
time to start getting dressed.. we were finally almost down to the hour.. so no time for getting hair done.. just let it curl.. about this time is when sav, zarah n farrel arrived with damu
made it just in time to squeeze past the bride before she entered the chapel with her father.. caught a glimpse of mark standing at the alter..
click. .. click and video.. pretty much all i did besides almost tearing up at the lovely rock theme and songs selected for the mass.. right from 'going to the chapel' for the entrance to the communion one of 'from this moment'..
most memorable moment - when bloss whispered 'he didnt say it' refering to the fact that the priest had skipped the statement of 'u may now kiss the bride' :) didnt stop mark from taking his due kiss ..
soon after mass rushed out to give bloss the bouquet she forgot and then rushed to the hall to put up the last minute table decor we re-used from the chapel..
off to change into my hot evenin outfit or as riaan put it 'my tarty dress' .. (didnt wear it to the church coz it exposed too much)
last minute rush to organize the cake and knife with a mad dash to the chapel to get decor for the knife -- finally gav U. Brian the signal to get the Bridal party.. who actually went with the idea that carly had and showed up wearin shades :)
from march past to the masala the evenin was fun and so was my dance partner.. thanx mister for lighting up my evenin - i didnt realize just how much i missed havin fun.. and thats what it was for me - pure n clean fun - njoyin the music (anglo style).. n literally dancin my blues away...
but then what's any occassion without its photo sessions (it was fun watchin bloss n mark pose) n its lil drama now n then.. all in all tho the evenin ended earlier tahn expected we managed to scoot the couple off soon enough for the first nite of wedded bliss..
the nite of course continued for us.. tho i did a disappearin act for half an hr n loved spendin time by meself on the swings.. then caught up with the others.. changed into comfy clothes and sat up for almost 3 hrs.. quietly snuck into carly's house to put back the food we taken out and feasted on..
so this nite we had more heads in our dorm.. riaan who was leavin at 6am with fifi and damu.. trace's boy toy (as termed by carly).. and rhine who slept over again.. drama king was his usual self and hunkered off in feigned anger..
woke up had breakfast and left with the bombay jet crowd who dropped rhine n moi to camp where we ricked it out to nashik.. reached the shrine in time for noon mass so attended.. met with some of the family there.. after mass ran an errand for mom which holds a funny memory for us.. went shopping for fifi's raisins and njoyed ourselves like lil kids while eating yummy malai kulfi.. came back to the dorm and rhine headed back to his for lunch with the family..
caught a quick nap post lunch then showered n left for the train station with goodbye stops on the way..
at the station decided to go by cab after all and rhine and i were elected to cart the centerpiece back..
after an almost hour delay the train came in and i was so glad of my cab decision..
then the rain started and with it my first hail storm in india.. an interestin evenin.. cabbie came finally.. started our journey back.. one black out at the first rest stop, dust storm at the second, a not so bad dinner and a break down later we finally got in to the city and headed straight to carly's where despite falling asleep sitting up.. i managed to shower and stay up a while longer.. everyone finally turned in around 2 but i stayed on the phone for almost an hour after.. and still woke up early the next day..
This by far has been the best Devlali trip ever.. how i love that place!
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