Its been over a year since I have been working. There have been short trips to my dad, but no trip has been a true holiday. But this one was...
Celebrating successful completion of one year in the company, my batch mates decided to plan a trip to a place that was near and beautiful, and a place that could be truly enjoyed and Vizag seemed to be the perfect place.
There was a lot of initial apprehension about the trip, if we would be able to go or not...how many of us would turn up...and all!! But finally 2 mails and loads of persuasion later, a total of 10 people agreed to come for the trip.
The trip was scheduled on 22 Nov 2007 finally. All of us took leave on 23 Nov.
DAY 1:
The day started on a tensed note. We realised at the last moment that one of our friend's ticket was booked on a different train. That had to be cancelled and another ticket for our train had to be booked. All the tickets were with a friend who was nowhere to be seen. Till lunch, we could not meet her. Finally when we did meet her, I simply grabbed the tickets from her and gave them for cancellation.
Our return journey tickets were still not confirmed. None of us had any idea as to how we were planning to come back. But all of us did have one thing in mind, we were going on this trip!!!!
Few of my friends went back to their places to get their luggage. So another tension for us, if they would come on time. But they did.
Surprise of the day: My sis came back to see me off at the station. It was very nice of her to do that.
The train started and my friends, all got into doing something I believe they love in common, playing cards. Ahhh yes!!! I forgot to mention, our seats were scattered. Of the 9 tickets that we had, 6 were at one place and 3 at the other. So all of us were adjusting at one place, in the same coupe` and hey that was fun too!!!
I somehow dont really enjoy playing cards, so I was writing my diary and listening to music. Also to some extent I did what I love the mst when I am on journeys - standing near the door. I am so much with myself at that time.
We all had an early dinner. We did take many snaps too. But none of us could sleep before 11. And I did around 12. Got down at Vijayawada and Guntur stations.
And that is the end of day 1.
