I have been thinking for a very long time to pen down something and then I decided to write about my trip to Goa. Thanks to my best friend, we both are the impulsive types. she had informed me via email that she’ll be reaching Goa and i was upset as she was not going to come to Pune to visit me. I call her b’ful eyes.
On Thursday, April 7th, she calls and we casually start talking, and then suddenly she starts telling me, that I’ll have to come to Goa to visit her with mom and dad. Well, I remember very well in our college days how both of us had decided to pack our bags and leave for Goa and finally the plan was put off by both our parents. But this time even our parents had kind of agreed. The change—we were just teenagers then and now adults, though both of us can really get crazy even now.
so, finally decided to go to Goa, and informed at work, that I would be away at weekend. Tried to get train and air tickets but they were either not available or extremely costly. Finally got the bus tickets and the trip to Goa started at 10 pm on April 9th. The entire journey I didn’t sleep. After a very long time saw the first rays of the sun, when we entered Goa, for the first time in my life saw fishermen throwing the nets in the pond just like I used to see in the movies, it appeared so peaceful far away from the busy life. it felt like heaven. for the first time in so many years I felt I should have a house over here in Goa. The roads small and clean and covered with coconut trees, jackfruits, and so many other trees. Finally, the bus arrived at Anjuna and we got down. Somehow, from the very first moment we entered Goa, I fell in love with it.
My best friend(K) and her husband(I) came to pick us up. We were going to her dad’s place. When we arrived at her home, saw uncle watering the plants. he used to always say on the phone he loves gardening and this was one of the reasons he didn’t want to come back to Pune. And her house is really beautiful. Anjuna is a tourist area. I suddenly see a bike parked outside her house; it was the same bike on which we used to go for rides after college. I told her to take me for a ride and there was my mother telling to at least wash my face and then go. But me being me didn’t wanna let that moment slip by and we both immediately got on that bike and went for a ride, i really enjoyed it, almost after nine years.
People have made restaurants inside their homes and during the day you can hardly see a soul but the moment the sun sets the bungalows appear so colorful with music playing everywhere. uncle was plucking cashews from the tree, he gave us to eat the cashew seeds which somehow didn’t go very well with me. though my parents really liked it. in the evening we decided to go to one of the beaches. We both on her scooty and her husband on another bike. but as luck would have it, our bike petrol got over and we went triple seat on the other bike, what an experience.
Once on the beach, i was really getting scared to enter the water, the waves were just getting bigger and bigger, however, she managed to get me in the water. the waves were hitting us really hard and the water - oh so salty! and i couldn’t stop screaming and laughing, the waves were just throwing us to the shore. finally, we reached home by 9pm and then did the craziest thing ever. we took the pipe and went into the backyard, as she told me that we couldn’t enter the bathroom with mud on us since the bathroom would get chocked. so, with the pipe both of us tried to take the mud off ourselves in her backyard in the dark and both of us just couldn’t stop laughing.
next day in the morning we went to her in-laws house, and they have a very ferocious dog. Oh my God i wasn’t going to enter that house, he is a thinny winny guy and the bark is so loud. anyways, finally i entered the house, it is so beautiful just like any ancestral home. and her mother in-law showed us an easter egg which her son-in-law had got. i did click it’s pictures. it was a huge easter egg and the design on it was really attractive.
in the evening K and I took us out to have a tour of Goa.
