A lot has happened since my Sky dive on the 4th of July weekend.... so many things to write about... but can't find the right words to write about and so I will try my best to documents few events that stand out. One of the most important thing I did this year is going to India after a gap of some 3yrs in late Aug/Sept. It was a fulfilling but fast-forward kind of trip.
I flew on my B'day and hence I will briefly desribe my B'day party. It was the eve of my birthday and by all means perfect occasion for a party and so I did one. I wasn't planning on drinking a whole lot may be a drink or two. But, then enters this wonderful friend of mine... we call him Nish... and he had some other plans.... Usually, every party I go I am sober part of the reason is that I drive and hence don't drink..... DWI in Minnesota can be quite expensive deal. As I said.. Nish's plan was to get me drunk come whatever may.... I was lucky as I had a DD with me for the night. I started with first drink @ around 730 and as the time went by I had already guzzled some 6 drinks and was feeling tipsy.... Luckily my bags were already packed and hence I didn't have to worry about it. As I said... by 1230AM or so when I was starting to feel tipsy I headed back home... put my alarm for 430 as I had to catch a flight for 7AM.
Rochester In't Airport as they call it isn't really a big airport, infact it is a tiny airport. Nevertheless I couldn't afford missing this flight as there was only a few hrs layover in Chicago before I boarded on AA International flight to Delhi, so driving to Chicago was ruled out, which normally takes roughly 6 hrs. Anyways I made it for the 7AM and can't describe how horrible I was feeling. Imagine a guy who has been drinking for 6 hrs, a night before he is suppose to take a 15 hr flight.
Well, turned out to be quite OK as opposed to what I was expecting, I didn't feel dizzy or anything.. @ Chicago my friend picked me up, I went to his place had shower and some heavy brunch and then we headed back to airport. Everything had been going per plan right upto the point when we landed in Delhi. the 15 hr flight didn't really feel all that bad, and believe me if they start one to Mumbai I would defi take it.
We landed in Delhi at 815 PM and we had a connecting flight to Mumbai from the domestic terminal at 11PM. After customs and border security check I collected my luggage and it was only 845PM and by all means we should have made our connection. But that's where everything went haywire... we decided to take Inter terminal shuttle instead of taking a taxi and probably that was the biggest mistake we did. We missed the first shuttle and hence had to wait for another one, which came in at 930 PM. I guessed it would take only 5 min to reach the domestic terminal, but that wasn't meant to be. For some reason it was delayed and instead of leaving that thing immediately we waited there just sitting in it for some 20 odd minutes. It was such a frustrating feeling... but I didn't freak out.... I was disgusted with the apparent indifference shown by the driver of the Inter-terminal shuttle. To make things worse no sooner than we reached the terminal, connecting flights gates were closed. It was already the last flight to Mumbai and the only options were, either rent a room in a hotel nearby or to stay in the terminal.
We chose the later one. Like us there were at least 40 other passegeners from various Int'l flights who had to go through this ordeal. So us together we camped outside the gates the whole night... after some 8 hrs of ordeal we made it to the first flight to Mumbai scheduled for 7AM. Luckily things didn't go all that bad except for one thing... and that is Anand my friend from Chicago who was travelling with me had to leave his Laptop bag behind ( of course he carried his laptop with him literally on his laps :) )
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