Trip to Ghati...

It was a lazy saturday evening when suddenly i decided to go to Ghati the next morning mainly cos i wanted to travel by bus and my parents wanted me to go there..Had plans of sleeping early and getting up early...neither happened..slept at around 3 and got up at 8..Reached Mekhri circle bus stop by 9:30..then from there got a bus to Doddabalapur..it was a nice feeling to travel by bus after a long time..Switched on my mp3 stick and enjoyed the cool breeze and the greenery around..After one hour forty five minutes was in the Dbpur bus stand..bought a couple of fruit-n-nut chocolate bars and found a small cab luckily i got a seat..the capacity of the cab was about 10 including the driver but actually there were nearly 40 ppl on the cab..Happens only in India..after a slow journey for about 25minutes on the bumpy mud roads reached Ghati around 12:30..Ghati is a small town with just 3 roads..one road which has about 30-40 houses and the other road which has a temple and around 20 shop cum houses ..i just left my shoes and entered the temple and stood in a long queue..stood in the queue for nearly 40 minutes just to have a glimpse of God for about few seconds..then came out..my phone had no network so had to find a phonebooth to call up my friends who were staying there for field work as part of their civil engg curriculum but the phones weren't working just as i was wondering how to contact them i came across a small house kind of thing and seeing one girl there asked if that is where Bms civil engg students staying but to my surprise she was one the friends i knew and soon the gang of friends came and took me inside..My kiddo friend Bhargs was too happy and excited to see me..started asking about my journey and started showing their survey sheets..then i gave the chocolates to them and we all finished it in minutes..I was really happy to see all these friends of mine who really enjoyed my visit there..then we spoke for a while and starting thinking for a place to have lunch and since there wasn't any good place there we decided to go to temple for lunch after a lot of debate among ourselves..then we stood in the queue for about 20 minutes and we had our lunch which was really really bad...then we came out had tender coconut and then i bid good bye to them and caught a small cab..now i was supposed to stand on the foot board the journey..i enjoyed it..holding the bus with only one hand and only one feet in the bus...It was too much fun..then took a bus back to Bangalore..It was a very good and relaxing day..Decided need to go to such trips more often..