Muzzooorieeee day 3- the last day :(

And before we knew it, the last day of the trip dawned... We all were being very lazy. We had to check out by 10 and somehow anish and i managed to wake each other up by 915. We realized we also had to transfer photos and then it was all memory cards and cameras and hard disks. Somehow we got everything packed by 10. Sharada then gave a piece of her mind to the room service guy as there was no hot water and we had to check out by 10. They got ready around 1030 and we clicked some final pics in the hotel. We went down to udupi for breakfast when aashish called. He'd reached delhi and was getting bored at rajeev chowk. Once again aditya's order came last (Pichle baar bhi jab gaye the tab bhi bichare ka last aaya tha and that too he'd ordered masala dosa... Baakiyon ke exotic orders pehle aa gaye the) breakfast ke baad we entered into one of our usual gross discussions about food only this time it was not initiated by chuunn but by anish. He started pouring sambar into chutni, chutni in sambar, crumpled tissue paper in sambar saying that he is doing all this so that they do not reuse it. And the expected argument followed " what if they do reuse it DESPITE all the crap we did"  ... Breakfast ke baad everything seemed to be in slow motion...there ws no real hurry for anything as we had nothing planned the whole day. We decided to go to the company gardens and due to the infinite availability of time, decided to WALK... Yeah thats right!! Walk all the way to the gardens, we figured since the rick wale were asking 30 bucks for it, it wouldnt be really very far from the main mussoorie square. And we started walking... On the way stopping at infi shops.. Looking here and there, anish got his tea. We clicked some more pics... Looked around in more woolen shops and dheere dheere kept plodding along. Our only agenda for the day was the sit in the dhoop in the garden and complete accounts. It was almost as if everyone was scared of getting bored so nobody pained anyone for taking any amount of time in any stupid shop... Slowly we reached the imperial(library) square where we'd gotten off the first day... Then the taxi stand from where we had taken taxis the day before... It was a pleasant walk... The funny thing was, the farther we went, the farther the gardens got from us!! When we started somebody told us it was 2 kms away, by the time we reached the taxi stand, people were telling us that it was 5 km away!! However, with nothing else to do but reach the gardens, we continued on... On the way, stopped at another tapri for chaai and clicked some more pics...( cant remember what exactly we were talking about on the way to the gardens, but i remember it was funny enough, probably it was about sharada's obsessively compulsive clean habits and hand sanitizers ... And how she probably lived in a "clean house" :-P) the sun kept playing hide and seek all the way ... Chuunn kept almost falling over at places "mussoorie teda hai" the snow capped peaks were visivle at some distance... We reached an internet cafe and chuun and anish wanted to take printouts of their tickets back.. The connection was so so slow that once logged in, chuun regretted logging in at all as it took infi time to log out...(god knows why he wouldnt just close the browser, who in mussoorie anyway was interested in chuun's gmail account!!) so on we went again..( repeating the phrase in hope of capturing how long it realllly seemed it took ) then we came across a puppy and anvita and sharada got all typical girly about it... "soooo cute" wala stuff :-P  anvita even went ahead and asked the owner if she could take the dog along with her to the park... Guess we finally did reach the park after that... And i want to say it was soooo worth the walk! But... Just cant stretch the truth to those limits... It was a sad sad garden... There were no lush green lawns that i'd been hoping for... There were no beautiful exotic flowers, just a sad little fountain in the center. There was some sunshine when we reached which disappeared quickly enough and it became really chilly later. Sharada and i went on the giant wheel... ( bechare aditya ko bhi jana tha but faltu mein kataya in hope that they'll have me and sharada sitting together, but their plan was foiled as it was better for the balance to sit on opposite ends) giant wheel ke baad we started looking for a place to sit in the sun and carry out our accounts... We found the perfect place by the "pond" ( cant think of any other word for it) and lots of sunshine. Within minutes our placing the order, the sun went behind the hills and i became so cold, i could hardly write the expenses down properly) we decided to finish eating quickly and proceed inside the copper grill (glass housed restaurent)... We had probably the most intelluctual session of the trip then ( oops not really, chuun's puzzle is yet to be solved) we started figuring out expenses. Took a while for getting everything marked down first, then who owed how much to whom. Made a "from to" matrix and then reductions were carried out in the matrix to clear the balances in the minimum number of transactions. I realized cs minor had indeep taught me something and for the first time in my life, i could think in cycles in a directed graph and stuff... But enough of it, dont want to get too geeky here. Once done with the expenses, (which was a pretty exciting affair for everyone actually, at one point of time, aditya was goin to get 400 bucks and in the end ended up getting only 35 :-p, the unanimous conclusion reached was that aashish owed a lot of money to everyone)  we started heading back. Tejas and sharada wanted to do some shopping so they refused to walk all the way back and took a ric. I simply felt too lazy to bargain with the rickshaw ppl and decided it was better to walk to be involved in tht stupidity. And everyone else too seemed quite in a "walking" mood. We had the most awesome discussion of the whole trip... It all started with chuun telling anvita that it was high time that she start talking, otherwise, for example when anish came 2 years later to insti, he wouldnt even remember her... And then somehow we started disussing marriages. Aditya provided his customary radical views on marriage which as always made sense but were just too shocking to really believe in. He said something like if a guy has to resort to arranged marriage, he is not capable of finding a suitable person (specifically not capable to convince a suitable person to marry him) and hence, even after marriage, as he is not going to gain the power overnight, he will remain faithful. On the other hand, a person in love marriage is capable enough to "pataaofy" someone and so even after marriage can get someone to marry him(/her, not to sound sexist :-p, atleast this is what i understood from the discussion, correct me if i'm wrong aditya) and then we reached live-in relationships , good or bad... Chuunn was all for it and the rest of us not so much. The Minutes of the whole discussion would require a whole new blog post( a task which anvita is going to perform admirably :-p, hai na?) but the funniest part of it was, chuun brings this up at his home pretty frequently, just to vex his parents and it always ends up with his mom getting angry and senti and chuunn not getting food to his liking at home for a week :-p, and so he has to drop the subject. Engrossed in the discussion, we just didnt realize how quickly the time passed and we already were at the tea shop. "chaai to peena banta hai yaar" no prizes for guessing who said it, and chaai peeke we continued on our way. We decided to walk till where tejas and sharada were and then head back to the hotel. Somehow we had managed to spend the whole day without getting bored at all ( at that moment it did seem like a big task, but today it feels stupid to even think that we would have gotten bored with each other) anish and chuun found a place to get printouts of their tickets. Chuunn was in a big dilemma whether to go by the sleeper train in the aftrnoon the next day which would take 30 hours to reach or take a chance and hope that his ac ticket would get confirmed. I had 2 tickets too and wanted to go by the evening train but it was waitlisted 1. Anvita anf i went to look for tejas and sharada. Having found them, it turned out that sharada had succeeded in buying nothing at all in all this time!!! So there was some last minute hurried shopping she finally had to do. The others had already headed back to the hotel and taken their things to the taxi stand. Anvita sharada and i were the only ones still left in the market area. It was 6:30 and high time for us to head back. And jaldi jaldi we reached our hotel back, took our luggage and left for the taxi stand too... The others had already hired two taxis and our luggage was loaded. ( luckily, in all the hurry, i forgot to feel sad tht it really was over now) we packed 2 alu parathas to eat on the way to dehra dun and we were off. On the way back i again got to hear anish's story, this time narrated for sharada's benefit. We pestered anvita and sharada to tell some stories from their schooltime but both didnt have anything interesting( was my school the only school where interesting things happened?!! ) by the time we reached down, anish and i had started feeling a little giddy. It was one winding trip down and i was also a bit worried that we might be getting late. We did manage to reach by 9 and our train was scheduled at 9:25... So peacefully mil gai. Once in the train, everyone first seemed enthu for a nightout, after all, it was our last night together in 2010. We played random cheezon ki antakshari like names of movies and names of places, all geeky geeky stuff... Aditya was awesome in movies ki antakshari. He would come up with random movie names and then say,"sunny deol and urmila matondkar ki movie hai" with full confidence as if the person who did not believe him was such an ignorant fool! I remember us having particular difficulty with movie names starting with n And y. (someone had come up with namaste london and it was crackk as it ended in n too ) but, dheere dheere, logon ka enthu kam ho gaya and once anish says sona hai, theres no point even arguing about it. Sleeper was a bit of a mistake in the season. It was damn cold and i just couldnt sleep. Infact even others had a bad night and when we reached delhi in the morning, everyone was infi tired. 

Now i m definitely not going to write about the last day as it makes me very very sad to recount those moments of
Bidding everyone goodbye. Bas the imp thing was, anish's train did go to ajmer, i couldnt manage to get waitlist 1 cleared( kiske saath hota hai yaar aisa!!) chuun and aditya reached infi infi late and sharada anvita and i wr lucky enough to reach home only with a few hours delay.
And so ended The most memorable trip of my life till date ... Wishing everyone could go sometime again...