Yes guys! I am late once again with this report.
We all met up once again. This time, it was a bit different because we had a guest from Chennai visiting us.
Sideways was in Kerala for some business reasons and it was our great pleasure to meet him.
He arrived from Chennai on friday and was at Kottayam. Saturday morning, I decided to drive down to Kottayam to meet with our very own
Raid De Himalaya winner. As usual, my better half wouldn't allow me to go alone this time too. She was eager to know how a WagonR behaves on a highway (yes, a very stupid excuse it was
).
I could only leave Ernakulam by 11.30am. And I got further delayed when I had to stop at one of our ongoing project site. I am very sorry to keep you waiting at the lobby, Sideways! The road was fantastic with less traffic, not very rough surface and lot of exciting curves. I deeply regretted in taking that stupid tallboy because it wasn't allowing me to use the road the way it was supposed to be. I reached Kottayam by around 1pm. Dropped my home minister & kids at a friend's place and carried on to pick up Mr. Sideways. Shared some Hi, hello etc.. and soon we started driving back.
We had to have lunch by my friend's place and wow!! It was indeed a good decision. My stomach is still happy with that very delicious dishes we had there. We ate like cows (ok, maybe only me), and sat around chatting for sometime.
By now, it was 4pm and the team-Bhpians @ Cochin had already gathered up to get a peek of Mr. Sideways. And there started the phonecalls. "Hey Zak! Where're you? We're here waiting at the venue as told." Oh my god! We're still at Kottayam!!
We hurried and somehow pulled the home minister and got into the car by 4.30pm and started driving back. Drive back was great! It included various subjects From Raid de himalaya to speedrun. Thank you Sideways. I simply enjoyed it and floored myself to the max. Back home, the team-Bhpians got together and moved into a mall near the waterfront and sat down for a coffee (Nice decision guys!). I reached home, dropped my family and continued to the waterfront.
We reached by 6.00pm! 2hours late than the promised time. Nikkibike, Hydrasho(c)k, Carfreak, a_micky, biju etc were there waiting with furious faces. But after seeing the Raid de Himalaya champion, they were a bit relieved.
Hi, hellos, introductions! AHA! arrives too. We sit chatting around for sometime.
The clock was ticking slowly and it started clicking a bit louder as it was time for Mr. sideways' train to Chennai. We soon decided left to the Railway station. We drove in a convoy of 4cars. We reached the station on time. Said Hi, tata and Sideways was soon on his chuk chuk journey to Chennai.
We stood around chatting at the station for some time when we got a call from KPHILIP. He wanted to meet us and we decided to go back to the mall. We reached, spend some time chatting, checked out the ICE & engine power of a_micky's JBLfied Verna and finally we called it a day by 8pm.
Thank you Sideways for coming. We hope to see you again soon. (Well, I'll get to see you tomorrow in Bangalore).
And guys! Thanks once more for making this meet a success. And also for having the precious patience for waiting.
Pics?? I think Carfreak and Hydra will do the honours.