Ri and all his adventurous cousins have made great plans for the long weekend. the plan is to go to Mt Abu, where his mama has a house, with family. Now that sound interesting - what is the dilemma then?
The programme was to leave for Abu with kids on Friday and return on Sunday. I did not have any idea (of course I was able to make some guesses) about who all are going? What are the plans for the kids? Food? Water? Programme? I mean how much of trekking, mountaineering and other possible or impossible adventures.
I did not know anything except the fact that we are going to Abu for 3 days and by bus. Not that I cannot go anywhere without any planning and cannot stay in a tent or take some adventure. While I would love all that, the only thing I could not take was not knowing anything and going there with the kids. This was because I was sure that it was never going to be a luxury trip with this gang. I knew that there would be some…oops…. many adventures on this trip.
My questions to Ri on the plans and the programme details went unanswered. The only thing Ri would tell me is there are so many of us and an equal number of kids.. also younger than kai…I am sure you will not have any problems. Now I definitely am not that type of a person who can take such an answer. At my insistence Ri would just tell me that even “deval mama and mami” -the organizers, sponsors, planners of this trip and all the trips that made the gang so adventurous - would not have answers to your questions. This actually was not the case but just that Ri would love these trips just as he had enjoyed them all these years with the element of “surprise”.
And this set my mind spinning for all sorts of ideas and excuses for avoiding the trip. It actually wasn’t that I did not want to go on the trip. I very well knew that I was making some unnecessary fuss over the entire thing. But I also wanted Ri and Kai both of them to tell me that I was right.
No. 1. It was a puja at my mama’s house as they have renovated their house. Ri did the architectural and interior designing work of the house. Everyone insisted that we stay back for the puja. I would tell Ri that we should stay back and enjoy the puja and the compliments for his work – as it was really done very well and we had already started receiving the compliments. This is because I thought this was the easiest bait. But as expected Ri was not at all amused by my idea.
No. 2. I cannot go like this. We do not know what we are doing, what is the programme and all and I find it too difficult to go with Kai totally unplanned. And just then I received an email of the entire programme along with the dress code and the menu (not complete but partial)
The programme was to leave on Friday morning for Mt Abu, reach there around 12.30 and then go for a trek in the Aravali mountain range. Go for a night trek, stay over night in the tent, wake up early in the morning go for mountaineering, caving, trekking and then return to the house at about 11.00 am. Then it is all relaxing and playing some indoor games at home. The next day we do some mountain climbing, rappelling, which will be followed by shopping and then leave for Ahmedabad.
Now that definitely sounds interesting and not bad at all – of course with some exceptions.
No. 3. We had to sleep in sleeping bags and yes… now I had another excuse…. Yak our sleeping bags are so bad they stink and I cannot sleep in such bags… actually they were pretty good the only problem was that we had not used them for quite some time and so there was that typical smell which obviously went away once we put them under the sun.
No. 4. Swine flu. I did not explain anything about this as I myself did not have an explaination that how would it affect us there in the middle of the forest.
Every alternate day I had different things on my mind – one day I would be excited about going and the very next day I would start thinking about excuses. Not that I had to give excuses to anybody – not Ri, not the gang, nobody. These were just excuses for myself.
We plan to leave on Friday and I still have one more day to keep on thinking. Gosh….. don’t I have any other thing to do in life?
I do not know what is going to be my ultimate decision. As of now I know that I am going.
The programme was to leave for Abu with kids on Friday and return on Sunday. I did not have any idea (of course I was able to make some guesses) about who all are going? What are the plans for the kids? Food? Water? Programme? I mean how much of trekking, mountaineering and other possible or impossible adventures.
I did not know anything except the fact that we are going to Abu for 3 days and by bus. Not that I cannot go anywhere without any planning and cannot stay in a tent or take some adventure. While I would love all that, the only thing I could not take was not knowing anything and going there with the kids. This was because I was sure that it was never going to be a luxury trip with this gang. I knew that there would be some…oops…. many adventures on this trip.
My questions to Ri on the plans and the programme details went unanswered. The only thing Ri would tell me is there are so many of us and an equal number of kids.. also younger than kai…I am sure you will not have any problems. Now I definitely am not that type of a person who can take such an answer. At my insistence Ri would just tell me that even “deval mama and mami” -the organizers, sponsors, planners of this trip and all the trips that made the gang so adventurous - would not have answers to your questions. This actually was not the case but just that Ri would love these trips just as he had enjoyed them all these years with the element of “surprise”.
And this set my mind spinning for all sorts of ideas and excuses for avoiding the trip. It actually wasn’t that I did not want to go on the trip. I very well knew that I was making some unnecessary fuss over the entire thing. But I also wanted Ri and Kai both of them to tell me that I was right.
No. 1. It was a puja at my mama’s house as they have renovated their house. Ri did the architectural and interior designing work of the house. Everyone insisted that we stay back for the puja. I would tell Ri that we should stay back and enjoy the puja and the compliments for his work – as it was really done very well and we had already started receiving the compliments. This is because I thought this was the easiest bait. But as expected Ri was not at all amused by my idea.
No. 2. I cannot go like this. We do not know what we are doing, what is the programme and all and I find it too difficult to go with Kai totally unplanned. And just then I received an email of the entire programme along with the dress code and the menu (not complete but partial)
The programme was to leave on Friday morning for Mt Abu, reach there around 12.30 and then go for a trek in the Aravali mountain range. Go for a night trek, stay over night in the tent, wake up early in the morning go for mountaineering, caving, trekking and then return to the house at about 11.00 am. Then it is all relaxing and playing some indoor games at home. The next day we do some mountain climbing, rappelling, which will be followed by shopping and then leave for Ahmedabad.
Now that definitely sounds interesting and not bad at all – of course with some exceptions.
No. 3. We had to sleep in sleeping bags and yes… now I had another excuse…. Yak our sleeping bags are so bad they stink and I cannot sleep in such bags… actually they were pretty good the only problem was that we had not used them for quite some time and so there was that typical smell which obviously went away once we put them under the sun.
No. 4. Swine flu. I did not explain anything about this as I myself did not have an explaination that how would it affect us there in the middle of the forest.
Every alternate day I had different things on my mind – one day I would be excited about going and the very next day I would start thinking about excuses. Not that I had to give excuses to anybody – not Ri, not the gang, nobody. These were just excuses for myself.
We plan to leave on Friday and I still have one more day to keep on thinking. Gosh….. don’t I have any other thing to do in life?
I do not know what is going to be my ultimate decision. As of now I know that I am going.
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