06.26pm to 07.02pm 15th oct 2010

4 months ago my most organised father called up asking if we were free from the 14th of oct to the 17th of oct to go for a family holiday to mahableshwar! 4 mnths ago!!! booked and cooked and no backing out…

i always get nervous during family trips. don’t ask me why. it’s just the way i am. and this little quirk of mine has all members of my family in fits of laughter at all moments. they also take pride in poking and saying all the things that they know will have my goat up. ooph ooph ooph!

all in all the trip was rather entertaining, filled with way too much food, lots of chatter, a decent amount of alcohol, and some tacky golf, considering no one knew how to play and our caddys struggled really hard to teach us in two very amusing sessions.

last week whenever i mentioned that we were going on a family trip…parents, siblings and their respective partners…friends would make that ooooh sound…how sweet…how lovely…how cute….while i worried and frowned. all my worry was rather wasted as suprisingly there weren’t many fights and tears. i think only once and obviously from me.

the time was filled with rather loud laughter and much random debates and exclamation mark shoutings, which we are much famous for.

i do not understand why everyone would get rather shocked when i said i’ve never been to mahableshwar!! really!!! how come??? really? REALLY? is it really that shocking? i get that it’s down the road, 6hrs away…but come on…it’s not that shocking! there are many more places that i’ve been to that others haven’t. i should start finding that shocking!

our cousin/uncle…he uses whichever whenver it suits his purpose…also came along. his were the exclamation mark shoutings and random comments that thankfully are only meant to get my mother to do a dance. he so loves it. it’s like watching a little boy acheive a big purpose, with the most naughtiest grin. and how he gets my mum to do a temper stomping jig!!! i so love it and so love him. he has this abilty to make all around him laugh and smile…brilliant!

i am rather rambling today. got to run to the new house to see the curtain man! my father finds that rather amusing. i do not know why?

we stayed at the mahableshwar club. a rather old fashioned, quaint little place, with all the old style rules that don’t work with some members of my clan. how we actually managed to adher to them, amazed me. well, it was obey or watch my mother tie herself in knots. we can be quite ambarassing. i do understand. but it’s so much fun watching her, when we disagree.

breakfast between 8-9.30; lunch 1-2; dinner 8-9.30!!! oh and no drinks allowed in the dinning hall. not even wine…it makes no sense. though it does make for healthy living. but holidays are not meant to be healthy.

men can’t wear chappals in the dinning hall, no pyjamas, no shorts, no nightdresses, no caps…many many NO’s.

there are more rules…but these are the ones that irked the most. but we managed, with many grumblings and suprisingly no amabarassing ‘go back to your room’ moments.

the little market, which is where the pictures are from…is amazinlgy packed with little little shops. it’s like a bonanaza…sorry don’t know how that word applies…it works in my head. the amount of consumerism shocked me! it was a really tiny street. 15min…maybe less…walk one end to the other. but such order in their display. such regiment. basically shoes, strawberrys and blankets! and i have never seen shoe shops in such a straight order. i can’t explain it. to me it was like a sociological phenomenon…but, i’ve noticed this in most hill towns.

i really should go and choose fabric for my curtains now. decisions…so many. i don’t like curtains. but, then again, husband obviously does not want random eyes watching as i walk around our home naked. i do not understand why buildings have to be so close together.

what happened to personal space and privacy?

there’s alot that i do not understand about many things linked to society.

there’s alot i do not understand about many things.