Goa trip (part 2)

After that Vatsal incident, mom told me to go and take a bath. You know what? I don’t like having bath using a bucket, but if there is a shower, I can shower for an hour or two! After I took my bath, my underwear was wet. I knew I couldn’t wear my pant over wet underwears. As I told you in part 1, the bathroom was like a sea, so I couldn’t change inside the bathroom, but I also could not change my underwears in front of so many people. Mom gave me an idea which was terrifying. The idea was she will be holding a towel, and while she does that, I’ll change my underwears. 


Soon we were all ready to go. Mom and dad told us that there is a special surprise for us, but it was just 1 big Inova car. Mom told, “It is not any Inova. It’s a private Inova !” . I liked the idea that the car would be with us for the whole day and we could go anywhere we wanted.

Inova had 3 parts. The front, the middle and the back part. The kids sat first. I you ever wanted to find Sankalp and Vastal, it’s simple. The kid sitting in the front would be Sankalp. The kid sitting at the back would be Vatsal, and now you would have guessed where you could find me – obviously in the middle part. You might be thinking, how can anyone sit at the back, when there is a seat in the middle? Guess, guess......

Without having an Inova, you cannot get the answer, but you cannot spend all that money, so I’ll just tell you. It’s not an educational thing or something great, but it’s important to tell you two things. There are 2 parts of the middle seat.

1)   This part is a normal seat

2)  There is a button in the middle seat which can be pressed to break half the seat at an angle so that you can go to the back seat.

We first went to a place called “back waters”, and then we took a boat ride to “thanirbhavi beach”. I had a lot of fun in the ferry. After we reached the shore, we saw a forest.  Actually the forest was pretty small and people were sleeping on hammocks. Soon we crossed the forest and I saw some blue thing and wow !!It turned out to be the sea.

I enjoyed at the sea beach. This was my first trip to it. The thing which was best at the beach was sea shells. We collected a lot of those. I think anybody visiting Mangalore should definitely see this beach because it is one of the best beaches in the whole world.

Soon it was time for us to have Lunch. We went to a restaurant and I had butter naan and gravy. I think I am turning into a punjabi because I like punjabi food.

After lunch, we started again for sight-seeing. The worst part in the whole trip was the visit to temples. I don’t understand one thing about parents. If we pass by a temple, they would definitely like to visit the temple. We visited so many temples. If you see gods, in one temple, I see no reason to go to another because there are same gods in all of them. Mom says that we should keep thanking god for all the blessings. But I think even the gods would get bored of blessing us so many times.

But I must say that the Kudremukh temple is the best temple. There was a fountain inside the temple area. The water was coming out of Shiv ji’s head. You remember the story of saint Bhagirathi who prayed to ganga ji to come on earth. But the water flow was destructing everything. Then Shiv ji trapped the water in his hair and released only a small part, which is called Ganga.

Then it was time for us to pick our luggage from the hotel and board another train to Goa.

More about my trip to Goa in part 3…...