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It was a long awaited trip (at least for me) since last couple of week when everyone was planning………planning and planning! And every time one or other excuse kept coming, and at last came in a week when the number of excuses were less than the number of trippers.  The “D” day is decided and it’s 21’st Sep 2007, when everyone should be ready by 4:45 AM IST, so now everyone is in execution mode, everyone’s mobile number has been taken and mailed by Kirti, I took the responsibility of creating a check list of items for trip. Kirti took the responsibility of arranging cab, everyone else……..I don’t know any other guy/girl was doing anything!

 

So here goes the checklist mail:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I don’t know what Kirti meant with “5 AM” Sharp in the morning! Ok stop leg pulling ;)

 

Hmmm……. Everything has been decided now and I planned to stay at Rohit’s place so that both of us can catch the cab at Anmol Residency (Kalewadi), so I reached at Wakad on Saturday night at around 7:30 pm and called Rohit to pick me up, afterward we went to Aundh for some cash (loot) withdrawal/ watching chicks luckily got a glance of few and got back, had dinner and talked about office/girls/Delhi and blah……blah! Before sleeping at around 12 I put up an alarm for 4 am “sharp” ;) and slept!

Sleeping…………..zzzzzzzzz!

Awake…….why the hell this alarm is not ringing! Got up and checked time…it’s 4:15 am …………what! 4:15 am……….what happened to the alarm! Why it didn’t ringed! Early diagnosis revealed that repeating alarm is being set in my mobile and cleared Saturday and Sunday from that! Thank God I wakeup on time!!

After getting ready by 4:50am we left on Rohit’s bike and we taught we’ll reach Kalewadi in 10 minutes.

It was a bit chill in morning in mid October here in Pune, Rohit being the driver has already taken his jacket and me on the pillion was not aware of that! ……. It’s chilling so I kept myself behind Rohit so that those cool breezes should hit him first ;).

After more than 15 minutes of riding ……..we are still on the same bike and the “Mr. Driver” gave an excuse that “all roads looks same in night”, and we realized that we have not taken a correct turn and we hit that Mumbai-Pune Expressway! I told Rohit that we are on a wrong track and let’s take a U-turn and get back but being an overconfident driver he carried on till the point he seen that Hinjwadi signboard!

Now taking a U-turn we taught it’s good to ask for the right way, so we got some direction form an aged guy and we again headed for our pickup point!

Now it’s a prank time Mr. Driver(Rohit) turns off bikes engine and says “no fuel dude”……what!.......and a stray dog helped him by not only barking but chasing us till the time he set bike’s engine on!

We finally reached at our pickup point and I called up Kirti, and she responded that our cab will be reaching within 5-10 minutes, so we parked our bike and started waiting for other guys!, and here they came Nitheen and Nilesh!

So finally we started at 5:30 AM sharp in morning! ;) . We picked up Preeti and Pawan(not part of the plan) another CS guy, and where’s Minakshi? She dropped the plan! And finally we picked up Johnson!

 

So now the trip begins with 6 guys and 2 gals, we stopped a Khadagwasla Dam for few minutes and again headed for our final destination “Sinhgad”. We reached Sinhgad at around 6:30 and started trekking.

 

Ooooooofff……..after trekking for few hundred meters few of us realized that this is going to be boring if we follow easy paths, so we took the difficult ones! And we really enjoyed them!

After having few breaks with lemonades and clicking a few pics we reached the final gate at peak. We roam around for few hours, had snaky breakfast of Indian pakoras and dahi, taking few funny pics and talking crap and mimicking Nilesh’s voice we decided to get back.

As we started for our back journey two groups came in, one which preferred to trek down and other which was interested in taking a vehicle/taxi, me being part of the first group started trekking downwards!. One thing we learnt is that climbing up a hill is a tiring part but climbing down is some what dangerous one! Few of us skidded in between so we slowed down our pace and finally we are back!

 

It was a cool trip and all of us enjoyed it to the fullest! I mimicked Nilesh’s voice infinite number of times and played pranks with Kirti!

Guy I’m really sorry if I hurt you, but my intention was to live the moment and I really enjoyed it!

 

I’m eagerly waiting for our next rip “LohGhad”, so stay tuned!

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Sinhgad Trip Pics : http://picasaweb.google.com/mann.preeti/SingarhTrip