Frozen Winter Wonderland

Minnehaha Falls complete Pic

Minnehaha Falls sounds like ha ha ha and it is. It is a 53 foot high water/snow fall. You can choose water or snow as per the time you are visiting this marvelous art of God. I have been to numerous waterfalls but this was the first snowfall I have seen in life. You can actually go to the backside of this fall and see the snowcaves. These cave gives you iglooo effect, so that you can have 0 °C (32 °F) or warmer inside. 

Selfie Inside Igloo

We planned for this fall, jump started car and in half hour we were there inside the snowfall. I must say its a risky but worth falling in this snowfall. There are 2 parts of this fall, first is the down side, where you can take pictures and is easy to reach except the center part of the fall which is separated. You can go in the center, but its a bit tricky to come out. 

Heiiit

The second and more exciting part is the hike on the fall, its slippery and rissky, but worth taking. You can climb on the sides of the fall and go to the backside to see the water/snow fall from behind the scene. The most amazing thing is you can slide down from a small opening and enjoy the fun. It may hit you on the bum, but its worth. 

Adventurers

Whatever I write, I wont be a able to give you the fun that we had there, but if you are in Minnesota, you should give it a try. Everyone goes in summer, but you should try it in Winter. Thats the fun.

Here are few clicks to excite an adventurer.

Last Road Trip in Sri Lanka

Road trip in Sri Lanka

Day 4

Place: Negombo

Our last day in Lanka was planned to go for Scuba diving and enjoy the underwater world, which was never been seen and cannot be experienced on land. When we approached scuba trainers, we got to know that ocean is rough today, so it is not possible to go today. We had to drop our adventure, next we had lunch and since we didn't had any plans to go further, we thought to go for yet another new sport -Massage. As soon as we entered in parlour, they gave us a cool napkin, I mean literally cool sweet smelling napkin to wipe our face. When we put it on, I must say it was really really cool and when we wiped our faces, it was so relaxing, cleansing and soothing. In other words, it was awesome. After such experience, no one can resist to try more that the parlour has to offer. Then they gave us their brochure to select the type of massage, we would like to go for. We selected the lowest cost massage meant for full body in 30 mins costing 1000 LKR. Then they informed us that “many Indians ask for male-female massage, but we only give male male and female female, we do not offer other kind of massage”. We said its totally cool for us, we are looking for massage only. Its not what we wanted to say, but under the conditions, we had to say, please understand boys will be boys.

I must say, it was the best thing that we did in Lanka, whole massage thing was very relaxing, we were feeling so light as if nothing is left inside our body. If you didn't had massage in Lanka you had nothing.

Then we returned our bike and headed for hot bath in our hotel since whole massage thing was very oily and sticky. Next plan was to go for shopping followed by dinner. We were roaming here and there in the  streets of Negombo looking for a proper gift and our eyes fall on a painting shop, the paintings were remarkable, not so costly and painter was deaf, counting all these factors, we made our mind that this would be the perfect gift for our loved ones.

We purchased a lot of paintings from that shop, had dinner. In the meantime we had a lil chat with the waiter who became our friend afterwards. Also we tried a new kind of juice-Wood Apple juice (Kabit). It  was also a unique experience for me, as I like eating kabit chatni, but its juice, it was a different thing. FYI I still prefers chatni over Juice.

Massage Parlour

After all the fun and adventure on road, we finally returned back to airport. One funny incident took place there too, an old lady suddenly started doing exercise and it wasn't a regular exercise, it was a mix of dance and exercise. Everyone started staring at her, may be she had some kind of problem/disease, or her daily routine, but it became a funny scene.

It was a great scene there, lots of foreign tourists roaming here and there in stunning dresses. The best time pass was just to enjoy the scene.

Adventure Zone

Dear Friends….....Welcome to Adventure Zone.

It’s a place where you can face your fears, an area where you can easily jump from 50 feet as if you are having shake.

I visited there with my colleagues since it was a team party. We hired a cab, assembled team and started our journey from office. After some time we celebrated birthday of my Tl and a colleague. It’s our team tradition is to celebrate birthdays of everyone falling in the same month on a single day. Then we had to have some fun, so we started dancing starting from TL to everyone, one by one, all were dragged to the dance floor. TL started break dance, saying he knows only that. It seemed to me as if he wanted to be in lime light. As no one had perfect idea, where this place was, so we called owner of that place and after few moves here and there, we finally reached Adventure Zone. It was a big place owned and maintained by a retired Major. He himself architecture that space and created many adventure games like rappling, climbing, shooting etc. He gave us a contract which stated that whatever happens to us, we take sole responsibility of that and no one else. We filled it without fear, since at this time many of us didn’t knew what we were going to do. 

Now major started explaining about the games first was climbing. Climbing was safe but tough. The task was to climb a 40 foot high wall using few stones on it. This game really requires stamina as you have to be continuously going up, searching stones and pushing your body up. I don’t want to be ‘muh miya mitthu’ but I was the first person who tried this game and I was the only one who completed it-somehow. Although I hurt myself a little bit, but enjoyed. There was a time when I felt like I will fall, but there were safety ropes which saved me.

Another adventure was Rappling, it’s a simple task but courageous one. You have to go up, using stairs and come down using ropes. Now here people were afraid as they have to jump from a 50 feet high building with the help of ropes. All of us know that the ultimate truth is death; still we were afraid of dying. And in this task, we had to overcome our fears-fear of dying, and then only one can come down. There are two types of rappling-backward and forward. In backward we look upwards towards the sky, so it becomes easy to jump. Most people tried this easily including me. Obviously, I had lesser fear than most in our team. Let us move to most interesting game-forward rappling, in this task we have to look ground from 50 feet high building and jump, now this is really scary. At this time, only one thing comes to your mind-Fear and most people wants to return without jumping. As I am always eager to face my fears, I ran to major and said, “I want to try forward jump”, he looked towards me and said “no one tries forward, till he has not completed three backwards”. This is because after doing 3 backwards we become habitual of it. I said “ok, I’ll come after my 3^rd backward”. When I again saw him, he said “are you sure you’ll not return through stairs (because many people went upstairs to try forward rappling, but came back without completing it)”. They tried, but once we are at the verge of jumping and look down, our mind gets trapped by fear. At this point, our body is controlled by emotions not by mind, even if mind says that there is 200% guarantee nothing is gonna happen, then too, we are afraid. I was not afraid as rest of the colleagues, I said to major, “I am sure that I am not gonna come back through stairs”. When I was waiting for my turn, I had little fear watching others getting little hurt and stepping down through stairs, but I had confident that I can do it.

Finally it was my turn to face my fear, everything was cool and steady till I saw ground, for a sec a thought came in my mind to back off and at the same time, my leg slipped, I thought that I am gone, but I was alive and then I made my mind that this is the only way to get down and I am doing it. I jumped and came down through rope only. It was awesome moment; I thought whatever I have been through has given me the courage to come down from that building. Now I have no fear my dear.

After this we played for an hour in swimming pool. Once completing all this, they dropped me to complete my shift, so I was awake for complete 24 hours, 12 hours in adventure zone and rest in office. Well this might not be a big deal for many people but believe me after doing physical rigorous exercise; it is very difficult to sit in front of a dumb screen.

Now I am habitual to that also, since my days have become upside down, I work and eat according to US. I work in night-eat pizza and sleep in morning, as if I am a US Dog . Even my client has mascot-a dog.

I think this is enough for this adventure, stay tuned for next…

Xploring Alcohol in Pondicherry

This journey started from my office. My TL asked me, would I will join them in Pondicherry party. I said yes anddd this became the first colleague party.. Next day, our journey started from our office in a bolero. We were 9, so it was slightly congested, but ok. After some 6-7 kms, a question popped up-“weather we would like to start drinking right now or after reaching Pondi”. I said, “I will not have”, he asked “why”, I said “I don’t drink”, he said “too bad”. I thought “is it too bad”.  Then we stopped at a wine shop and took some beer for a good start. After that we stopped at one more place to smoke. NOTE: I didn’t smoke nor I drink, still I was enjoying. We reached Pondy and on priority basis-booked cottage for stay. Then we visited Beach side and got some booze on the way. Actually Pondy is famous for 2 Bs- Beach and Booze. Beach side was cooool, it had many couples, foreigners, employees like us roaming here and there. We covered whole beach side and then moved to our cottages buying cold drinks en route. As soon as we reached there, we ordered dinner and started drinking session, since I don’t drink hard, I just had Cold drinks.

After some time, I got a call; I went out for some time. And when I came back, I had a sip of coke; suddenly I found out that, its taste was bad. I got the idea, it was mixed. Since I had little, nothing happened. The session continued for some time with dinner. We were very late, due to which, hotel guyz were able to arrange only my order (veg) and chicken biryani, but chicken was not available. Due to this, one guy was not able to satisfy his hunger. I am sure; he was saying bad words in his mind. One more colleague was doing the same, because one of the cottage guy was standing beside him and talking to out TL, for a very long time. My colleague got irritated. Our TL was getting friendly with them so that, they don’t cause any problem to us after getting drunk. They were also high. One more group was there in neighboring cottage; they were not only having hard drinks but other drugs too. They were real high. After finishing all the drinks, our TL started playing songs and dancing, we all joined him. After all this fun, we went in for sleep. I was not able to sleep for 1 hour, donno why, and then I too slept.

In morning, our TL woke all of us and then we headed towards beach. The Sun was rising and we were going down. High waves were hitting our body as if they were massaging our body. Environment was filled with morning sunshine, cool breeze, on one side sand and on the other never ending water. Bay of Bengal was welcoming us. We played in water for some time and then came out. After enjoying there we moved towards another beautiful beach Paradise Beach. This beach has another instance; we had to wait for long time in a queue to get a ticket for boat. This boat took us to Paradise Beach. There I had Breezer, which has very little amount of alcohol, I felt as if I was having cold drink, it’s the only reason, I took it in. We stayed on that beach for some time and then moved back to our car.

When we were coming back, a girl sat beside me, she was from east side. She was smart good looking and had a life jacket in her hand. She was staring at that for few minutes, I felt it odd, I mean, why she was staring at that, it is meant to wear and if you don’t want, just put it down. After watching her for a while, I told her, “Wear it”. Then she wear it, I helped her in that, as she was not able. Then we were sitting silently for some time, I was feeling bore, then I talked to my colleagues for some time. They were sitting quite far from me, so I was not able to hear their voice; therefore, we stopped talking.  We still had some time to our destination. SO I started talking to that girl. We also talked for a while and then stopped. HI HI HI.

Return Journey

Had another twist, my friends had their consignments of booze, we took them and now Bolero was full of drinks. As you know, “shit happens” and it always happens with, so it happened this time too. En the route to Chennai, police stopped us and searched our car, and took nearly half the bottles we had.  Since Legally, It’s not allowed to carry drinks across city. But he left us and didn’t charge us anything. We were saved. God helped us. He is always there to help me, as he knows that I will go into a new trouble daily. This was my 3rd encounter in last 6 months. 

Well, this trip helped me to xplore many types of drugs…

Breezer, Bear, Whisky, Shampane, Vodka, Grass, Fireshot, Weed, Ganjaa, Marijuana and many more are there. At least you should have the knowledge of all these, weather u take these or not.