Water was out with such a force and then started the fun, i guess it was almost 4/5 hours we had this fun. Aathi's mother had understood that these chennai vaazh guys arent going to come out of water so soon, so she had packed food, bottles of fresh Pathani. It was a royal vacation that we started having food within the tank, in the water :-) , then suku had gone alone for a adventure trip but unsuccessfull.

then was yet another very interesting part of the trip. One of the mission of the trip was to get Aathi's parrents look for a girl for aathi & initiate marriage talks for him.
as his mother was serving the food and his dad was along with us, we started the work but to our surprise.. his parents told in a unified voice that they didnt want to spoil a girls life so soon :-)))

we didnt giveup after this initial defeat, forgetting that aathi had been so nice to my grandpa (understood ?), we started talking to him. He is 92 years old and was happy to talk about his old days and he became very happy to start talk about Aathi's marriage.. There had been many groundworks for his marriage, so we were requested to convince aathi. Then just like that, i had said Aathi is loving a girl in his office (true/false ? which is ofcourse has to be opinion polled by t.nagar guys ;-) , his grandpa believed it and started enquiring Aathi about her, he was so cool that he wasnt worrying about the caste or anything. Atlast, aathi's dad came to rescue of aathi. When we were leaving, his grandpa has asked us to convince him to accept for marriage soon... :-D (suku.. Mission Successs !!!)

everytime our CK (refer the Day 1 for the meaning :-) takes a snap, Aathi had been saying wooow and encouraging him (or trying to keep him silent ?).. and this time, our CK who was sitting in front of aathi started singing (was it the "Paadagan" in him wokeup ?) and palakadhoshathula, aathi tried saying wooow but it turned out to be something different. Then, they gave me the work of a tourist guide protecting a archealogical place, each time someone comes and asks for the empty seat near me, i had to explain the historical importance of the place and the need for it to be empty :-)))

next day morning, reached Pudhukottai (mummy, you shud have been there, we would have finished our dinner there :-D). Calledup Sharmila's brother and went to the acco arranged for us. As we got ready over there, we saw her collegue with a gift and since we had decided to gift her during reception, we hadnt got anything. So now, there were hot discussions in the room on how to pack the picture hanging out there in the room.

atlast, convinced suku that we can gift her when all of us there and we started to the Marriage Hall. We first thought, that we were little early, we saw only men in the hall. Infact we were little disappointed ;-) but later realized that the use of the green screen hanging and seperating the marriage hall :-)))

Mappillai came to the dias, they discussed something, got signed from him and took the book acroos the screen, got signed from sharmila and the marriage was over, so simple was it :-)
the couples were on the stage, we waited for our turn, went up and wished her.

As per sharmila's request for everyone to have food, we had food (Illati mattum summa vandhu irupeengala-nu ketkaatheenga :-D)

then we now had our train from Trichy to Chennai and we are now in Pudhukottai. Took a bus and the driver was like, rolling, rolling, rolling the bus and we had serious thinking whether we had to bunk the office tomoro or not.

somehow reached the station and got the train at the very last moment.
Again the CK in suku wokeup and started demanding (or tortured ;-) everyone to be his models, had a very long chat..chat...chat and that was the end of the trip..

First sight of the USK Beach was Very Impressive.., Silent, not so harsh waves, Clean, No ppl around, cool breeze, sun rise. We just forgot ourselves, ran like anything and did many Gallata's in the Sand and had hellofa fun in the beach. We even started building Sand Castles and once it was buit, we went beyond that and constructing more ammuncations & ppl too ;-) (the camera battery went down when we had completed it, so no snap of it :-(

Came back home, now again had bath in the Pumpset in house and then Food. After the food, there were lotsa TenderCoconuts cut ready for us, there was this bottles of Pathani ready for us, not to worry about anything, had everything as much as possible ;-)

then went to Manapaakam, a place near by to spent some time in the small mount over there near the beach. It was such a breeze over there that we didnt wanted to leave that place so soon. Saw some beautiful very old churches and returned back.

during the night rounds went around the 4 streets and 8 houses of USK, we saw the bazzar place where there were lotsa shops, including the most required TASMARK ;-)

entire day aathi was convincing us that there were ppl in this village and its not desserted. Morning he used to say, ppl might be sleeping, midday he would say, its very sunny and so ppl are in the house, night he would say, ppl are sleeping. He tried his best to coverup, but he couldnt succeed logical questions from Bals ;-)

Now here was another best part of the Trip, Suku & Aathi wanted to see Tanjore and they kept insisting that we are gonna leave that night, but Bals and Me wanted to njoy this "Graaamathu Life" for some more time (but we also had hidden intentions of having the great food one more day :-D), so there was lotsa confusions of going to Tanjore, Trichy, Kanyakumari, Nagerkovil, Tirunelveli....etc.. but at the end, as usual it ended at USK itself.

Reached Madurai at morning (since we had planned to reach madurai in very early morning, we'd directly leave from there to USK), but now it was pretty late, so decided to go to my house. We had got down at Periyar Bus Stand and we had tough time convincing Suku that if he is going to fullfill his desires & stomach we arent going to make the trip (He was planning to have Jagardhanda, Alwaa, Parotta, Omlette, Tea, Panipoori, Bhelpoori from JamJam...etc, he had a very long list and each was from diff places).

Went home, had GREAT FOOD and left to USK. (In meantime, our guys had been so nice in the way they had talked to my grandpa ;-) , got very few food packets in the belief that we wouldnt get hungry since we had very heavy breakfast at 12:30, but thank god we atleast got few food packets :-)))

It was hot sun when we started, but in just couple of minutes there was cool breeze and drizzling, the bus travel was enjoyable. In this time we found a major change in our Suku, yeah the "Camera Kavingan" in suku woke up :-) , starting from the dozzing off Athi to the rain droplets in the window :-)

reached Thiruchendur that night and Bals had joined us there from his hometown. Thiruchendur makkal had a memorable time with our "CK" (Camera Kavingan) when he started taking the picture of the moon and analyzing why was it yellow in color (later we found that it was the street lamp). Then we found a parotta shop, and started emptying Omlettes out of the shop.

before that, i need to say this very important thing. Since our CK had decided to see a typical village, he had this so called "Graamathu Spirit" (read the first word in Bharathiraja's style) and started seeing everything in the "Graaaamathu" effect.. eg. the moon he saw was called "Graaamathu Nila", the streets were "Graaamathu Theru" and everything was given this spl tag of "Graaamathu.."

Now Thriuchendur is a town, an important tourist place, so we had transportation. But what about to USK from there. Guys you gotta believe it, we had transportation facility at that night and it was a yet another Unique experience.. It was just litl bigger Jeep yet it could accomodate soooo many ppl in it :-) , we saw couple of ppl hanging outta the jeep and i immediately joined the club. It was a great ride, with Cold wind gushing in your face, dark night lighted with the full moon, trees around, only the jeep rushing in the road.

reached USK and we got the option of bathing in the pumpset in the house, we didnt mind it being directly piped to the sea water ;-) , had a superbbbb bath, and great dinner was waiting for us. finished it and the next plan was to see the Sunrise in USK Beach. The tone everyone agreed to wakeup early was VERY CONFIDENT ;-)))

Apr 14th Tamil new year was coming ahead and there was no signs of anyone planning of a trip, as usual i thought, lemme go for a trip alone somewhere to Northern part of Karnataka, cause this state was still in my hitlist. But then when i just gave a try in the group to checkout if any ppl would be interested, as expected lotsa options/suggestions poured in for an alternate date for this trip.. nothing seemed to workout..

suddenly there was an idea from Suku, suggesting to visit a typical village and Aathi's reply to it, inviting to his hometown (i'm not sure whether he did it for fun and later repented for it or not ;-)

Memorable trips have always been unplanned onthe spot decided trips and this one once again proved it.
Now there were only Suku,Bals,Me and ofcourse Aathi.