Potpourri!

DAY 1:

Ooty Lake and Botanical Gardens :

We boarded the Coimbatore express at 22.20 on 1^st evening of March. We reached Coimbatore at 7 am on the next morning. We took two tempo travelers to Ooty. We had our lunch at hotel Annapurna on the way and the Breakfast we had there was so good. We reached Ooty by 11. We got ourselves ready for the day at Moti Manor .The hotel was pretty good and its appearance was really pleasing. We then started to the Lake at Ooty for boating. Each boat (peddle) could carry 4 persons and we got to deposit 200 rupees for the boat of which 100/- was refundable. Myself (vadi), Praveen (gujako), Sriram (bladezz) and Ganesh (mappi) got into the last boat. We have to reasons to explain why we had a motor boat ride instead of peddling!!!! Our boat was the slowest of all, gujako got to use his cycling skills in moving the boat but despite his efforts and mine and mappi, the boat just moved inches. We managed to peddle to the farthest distance, but bad luck assisting again the boat did not move at all when we decided to return. It was a great stunt to see Balaji (powder B) and gujako exchanging their places respective places of two separate boats at the lake. Powder B tried hard,but couldn't do anything to drive the boat. Alas, a motor boat came for our rescue. The fact was every boat was allowed a ride for ½ an hour,but we took an hour. The motor boat took us to the shore and at last we were safe !!!! You should have had a look at gujako’s face that time on seeing us in a motor boat!!!

We then started to the botanical gardens which was just 5 kms from the lake. The garden was really awesome, you could see big trees all over. To explain about the large lawn there, I wanted to spend my whole night there. People there were having great time playing kabadi with their families. We visited the green house there, though small, was just enough to pull down my jaws. I could see only flowers with beautiful colors. We walked our way through the gardens and noticed that around 90% of the trees were imported from Australia. Few tall trees from Mexico could be spotted too. Srikanth took around 100 pics in just around 2 hrs. We had a coffee inside the garden just to warm ourselves from the cold. We spotted flowers which were Bell shaped. I was really amazed seeing that. We then went shopping outside the gardens. Vishnupriya found me and showed some home made chocolates. Those chocolates tasted too good that I carried two packs for my sisters. Meanwhile Aashik had ice creams, man he is so different, just to have ice creams under cold conditions.

Finally it was a great day with fun and pleasure. Though cold outside, we had a long walk to a hotel just to have dinner at night.

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