Happy Birthday Daddy!!!!!!

Today is My Dad's 58th B'day....thought i could post the below lines for him :-) Love you Dad...Have a Blessed Birthday!!!!!!

If I could choose the perfect Dad

There's no one I would rather Have Dad,

than you Dad Coz you go further,

DaddyI'm jus' little

But I love you BIG
Happy Birthday Big Daddy

I find myself wondering...

Did I give you your due..

For all that you've done for me

Did I ever thank you?

For all of my childhood memories

For helping me deal with life's stresses

For helping me accept my defeats

And celebrate my successes?
Or for teaching me the value of hard work,

Good judgement, courage, and being true

The laughter, smiles, and quiet times we've shared

Did I ever thank you?

If I have forgotten,

I'm thanking you now

You taught me right from wrong....

I hope you know how much you're loved and appreciated

I hope you, instinctively, knew it all along.
Happy Birthday, Dad

My first trek...

One fine day in august...i guess it must be aug 13th '08 me and my colleague were scratching our heads on wat to do for independence day. It looked like we had 3 days holidays and we wanted to do something adventures. With this thought my colleague was going through the Ergo newspaper ( the one which helps u waste time for a while as soon as u enter office ;-) a gud news paper indeed). And to our excitement we found too many suggestions given out in the paper on how to spend the 3 days hols. The one which looked impressive was the Chennai Trekking Club.

Hurrey...we got what we want..we decided to join..the next moment we started calling the organiser of the group,registered online and became CTCians..and here comes the invitation to join the trek to Talakona . I never heard about this place before. We decided to try out. We were so excited.On 15th morning around 5.00 am i reached Mirium's place ..I had never woke up so early in my life. Myslf, my colleague, her husband and her cousins left her place and reached tidel at 5.30. I was thinking to myself how are we gonna spend two days with total strangers. On one way i was happy that my colleague was with me. We saw bunch of trekking enthusiastics at Tidel.

We started around 5.45 and reached Talakona around 10am. Left our vehicles near the temple and started to walk towards the hill.

Wow..It was an awesome , I have never visited such a place in my life. The first falls and the pool was little crowded as it was a tourist place. Monkeys started playing with us in grabbing the snacks.. Amal, the organizer gave away his packets. :) actually they grabbed it from him. We had a yummy lemon rice n curd rice at this place and the guides came to our rescue to sue away the monkeys.

We started our climb up to the second falls which was again mind blowing. the wind was making the water to dance..:) and we had lovely time taking a dip. Then we realised we had to climb still more to reach the top of the hill to camp for the night. The climb was pretty steep and as a first timer i did find it hard. but there was Amal , who kept on motivating ppl who were lagging behind.. Atlst we reached the place and surprised to see a asbestos hut placed by the forest officials. Few of us went to explore further and few did night trek. A nice camp fire, yummy spicy andhra chicken and rice for dinner made the day. Next day morning we headed to a water fall and the pool..the solitude presence there... the picturisation of the pool was awesome. We enjoyed a lot there. We had nice fish pedicure too.

Later we followed the river bed and started going up on the hill and visited another small falls. Had a lovely time. The fresh air, the water , the green nature rejunevated me. I would love to visit this place again and this trek made me to be an enthusiastic trekker and an active participant of CTC....
Will post abt my other trekking experiences in future. You can also check http://www.chennaitrekkers.org/.
Pics are here- Talakona