DAY 1-JOURNEY BEGINS

DEC 14,2011; 0845 hours  A brand new day has come...  the alarm tone on my phone was ringing and for the first time in a long while we got up without cribbing. It happens to everybody i guess that when something really exciting is on the cards for the day you wake up a minute earlier automatically even before the alarm rings!! so much of a testimonial to the entity called the biological clock.  After getting fresh and having a quick shower , a customary visit to the temple and last minute shopping of some essentials. afternoon lunch was a orthodox konkani snacks as it was sankashta chaturthi (a day of fast dedicated to lord ganesha). on this day its a vegetarian affair and that too veg minus onion/garlic. tough day for a thorough non vegetarians  like us but then some sort of spiritual living is required for a balanced life they say . our first leg of the journey was from mangalore to bangalore by the evening jet airways flight at 7 pm. We started to the bajpe airport  at 1730 hrs with all our luggage checked in the most paranoid way possible just to make sure we did not miss out on anything. the feeling on  the way to the airport was like the one which a person would experience when he is going to fight a war. We were accompanied by our parents and the concern and tension on their faces were beyond expressibility. Parents will be parents ; no matter you are 2,5,10,20,30 or 40 they will still be kids for you and will always feel like you cannot do a thing without them. and if you tell them that you are grown up and not to get tense the evergreen dialogue one will get to hear is U WILL KNOW IT ONLY WHEN U HAVE KIDS.. and u really cant say anything then! maybe true that, i really cant comment on it ! so we finally exchanged a milllion waves till last bit of them could be visible and then we were on our own. we completed the check in procedures fast and hunger made us go to the fast food outlet and ordered for french fries ,paneer chilly and fried rice all veg .. garlic and onion were unavoidable though. decent food we had and then flight boarding was in no time and in an hours time we landed at the garden city bangalore..we collected our baggage and made ourselves comfortable in the cafe coffee day lounge ... 2359 hours ...sleep got the better of us and we dozed....