Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Summer Vacations - 2011

As always, the the best part of the year was my summer vacations -  full 50 days of non stop fun. Even before the vacations started, I had decided I wanted to go to London, Chennai, Bangalore, Paschim Vihar and Fatehgarh. The last two are obvious as they are my grandparents'  places and Bangalore is where I was born. But I have no idea why I wanted to go to London and Chennai. Perhaps I heard those names from some friends and liked them.

And so it started. I made sure that I was at Paschim Vihar at my dadiji's place on the very first day of chutti. I could do whatever I wanted to do - such as watching tv non stop or playing with dadiji. To top it all, I was even treated to 1 or maybe 2 ice-creams a day. This made me feel my grandma is really rich because my parents never let me have ice-creams that frequently. I did some holidays homework too when time permitted. Maa had passed on some of the holidays homework responsibility to bua. I always wonder - why do they give homework for holidays?

After spending a few days there, we went to Fatehgarh (which is were my Nani's as well as my Maa's Nani live). I love spending time with my cousin sister bulbul. She's Rinku mama's daughter. I loved the way she copied me and snuggled with me. She's the only one I can boss around with. During the train journey, I got to use maa's phone as a music player and absolutely loved it. I also got hooked on to a Justin Beiber's song (courtesy govind mama). I also met Megha at Kunti nani's place - we played from morning till evening when my legs would give up.





All this while, papa had been busy traveling to the US. I was eagerly waiting to see him (after all, he'd taken a long shopping list from me). Finally we were back in Delhi and I loved all the stuff he'd got for me. More than anything else, I love playing with Talking Tom on his iPad.


After 3 days in Delhi, we went to Shirdi. I and ma went along with Gautam chachu and Kartik chachu. They taught me some interesting things including the famous song "Khaike Paan Banara wala" and some bits of punjabi. It was a complete different experience for me and as usual i made friends and had fun following them. Gautam chachu and kartik chachu took great care of me.We also went to water park on the last day in Shirdi. The train journey back to delhi was fun too as I got to spend some more time with my new friends. Papa came to pick us up and we were back to noida. The last few days before chutti were spent in finishing off the remaining holidays homework.




Its back to school now but I'm already looking forward to next few weeks. Next week end, i'm going with Papa to Banaras. This is the same place that appears in that song I learnt. This is also the place where papa went to school.

My first overseas vacation

What a vacation it was! Lets start at the very beginning. I and Maa went off to Nani's place near Kanpur. As always, it was fun meetin...