Goa trip ( part 3)

2nd Sep 2011

We took our private Inova and headed towards Mangalore junction. Soon we reached the station, but I thought we had reached Mangalore’s ‘kabadkhana’. That’s because no one had cleaned the exterior walls of the station. Now if you want to visit Mangalore, please come by an aeroplane not a train. We were waiting for the train and I was feeling sleepy. Then Sankalp came to me and asked,” Why isn’t this train coming???” And that question was repeatedly going on in my head. The train wasn’t coming and I was getting tired. At about 11’o’clock the train came. We boarded the train and headed off to Goa. As we boarded the train, Sankalp told,” We are not going to play Uno Puno, but going to sleep” And that didn’t bug me, because I was going to do the same thing.

We found our seats and went to bed, but I couldn’t believe myself that I woke up at 3:00 in the morning! I asked mom if I could sit at the window and watch the view, but mom told, it would disturb the other people. So the only thing I could do was to just lie down. After 2 hours I again asked mom if I could watch the view and she told “yes”. Then I wore my slippers and went near Sandeep Uncle’s seat and asked,” Can you give me some place to sit…….please?” and he told sure, and I got some place to sit. The view was very nice. If you ever go to Goa, don’t forget to watch the early morning view with the sun rise. It looks very beautiful.

After 2 hours….

We got off the train and found a taxi. Sandeep Uncle told the driver to go to a place called Ginger hotel, but I like to call it “Ginger garlic” or”G.G” It took us 2 hours to get there. When I saw the exterior walls of the hotel, I thought we were going to live in some 2 star hotel. But when I went inside, it was mind blowing!!!! It turned out to be a decent hotel which had a T-Shirt shop and Café Coffee Day! The rooms were outstanding. There were 2 things I wanted to check first and foremost

Ø    The bathroom  shower

Ø    T.A.T.A sky connection

The bathroom shower was good but the Tata sky connection had no kids’ channel. I asked mom if we could subscribe and she replied, “We are not here to watch T.V.”. What she said, really made sense so I agreed with her.

see you in part 4