bliss

Back after the long-long-long break!

Day 1: As is wont to happen, we started off the holidays with a fight! A bit of door- slamming, wet-eyes and the make-up session. Purrfect start, i say! Kind of like letting off the steam in preparation of the long week ahead.

After we got past the mandatory fight, we ended up having a really good time. Most of it was spend in bed – watching movies on the laptop, watching serials and movies on TV and other such exciting exercises!

We even went pandal-seeing – we were too lazy to get out of the car and join the crowd to have a darshan of the goddess and her children. We just drove past the pandals, craning our necks to see the idols, lighting and the never dwindling crowd dressed to glory. We drove past the same pandal thrice – i think he lost his way. On the third round, i could not resist myself and told him gleefully we were driving around in circles, that we have passed the same mishti shop thrice!

i insisted on going for a long drive – he indulged me. So we drove to the other end of the city – i have never been there and I wanted to see what it was like. i was expecting the place to be green and spacious. But the road was narrow and congested. After an hour, i got tired and asked him to turn back. En route i kept blah blahing about nothing in particular.

And then i insisted on a long-long-long drive. He indulged me. We drove to a sea beach about 4 hours from the city. The scenery was nice but the road – the state highway was horrible with open sores big enough to swallow the car! We drove on and on and on. The worse thing was that there is no signboard anywhere telling you where you are. So we had to keep asking for directions. After an exhausting drive, we reached the beach but not before driving through a stretch of road that had me hugging the side of the car! The beach was motor-able which meant we could drive straight up to the sea – ok, bad for the ecology. We spent some time on the beach and then went around looking for some place to fill our stomachs. This place is sort of new on the tourist map so it was clean and un-crowded which also meant fewer amenities. Since the “resorts” only had in-house restaurants we had to forego lunch. i insisted on driving on the beach and he indulged me, yet again. i tried to sneakily get the speed above 40, but he caught me at it and asked me to slow down. So mean of him, I swear. All i would have knocked down was just bored holiday-makers!

We then decided to drive back before it got dark and the roads swarming with people out hunting for pandals to feast their eyes on. And i learned a valuable lesson – never drive through these roads after dusk. No street lights. Potholes and wokholes. Add to it people who cross the road in the dark and cyclists riding in the middle of the road. i kept peering through the dark trying to spot people who seem to dart out of nowhere with a suicidal mind. Only when we approached the city was i able to sit back and relax. We decided to visit our fave Chinese restaurant only to find it jam packed. We settled on take-away.

It was bliss just to laze around, curled up beside each other. Cracking silly jokes, watching silly serials, reaching out now and then to cuddle. Bliss. Unadulterated bliss.