It was friday evening September 1, 2006. When most of the professional heading toward malls, pubs... me, one of my friend Pravin, my parents, my brother and sister-in-law were heading toward bus stop. We were going to Tirupati. I hope everyone is aware about Tirupati. As soon as we entered to Volvo bus we felt very cold and everyone came into action, wearing jacket and cap. Bus started around 9:30 PM. It was night so we all were sleeping during entire journey. Next day at 4:45 AM we reached Tirupati. We got down from bus and rushed toward ticket counter for booking ticket for special darsan of God. Ticket was available for the same day in the evening. We thought we'll be getting same day ticket. But God asked us to wait one day. Ofcourse there was a big queue. We all six person stood in line and waiting for our turn. We spent one and half hour in the queue before we got to know that there is a link failure. Then they ask us to go to another building that is aroung 200 meters from the bus stop, where they arrenged for booking ticket. We all started running toward the building. Ah! we got to see another big queue. Then we learnt from Pravin that there is another booking counter that is near the first mountain. The God is on seventh hill. This time we hire an auti rickshaw. Again we spent some one and half hour before we got ticket for special Darsan. Cost of ticket was Rupees 50.
Now we had ticket and one day in our hand. Feeling relax and good. Now it was time to treat ourself. We spent some one hour there having breakfast and discussing about the God and how to cover rest of the journey. After a long discussion everyone including my mom got ready.
We then started walking to conquer seven mountains. We had to keep our luggage to dispatch so we ( me, papa, bhaiya and pravin) waited to surrender our luggage. Meanwhile my mom and bhabhi didnt stop for us and started walking toward the temple thinking we will catch them somewhere in the middle of journey. Knowing this we asked papa to be with them. After finishing with our luggage we started walking toward the temple. We walked some meters and realized we have lost mom and babhi somewhere. Me and pravin ran to catch them. Bhaiya had some problem in his leg so he was coming slowly. After few kilometers we found Papa and mummy but even they had lost bhabhi. We stopped bhaiya to come. Again we started walking toward the destination thinking bhabhi would have walked fast and we will meet her after sometime. We walked some kilometers and still....no sign....mummy and papa was angry...and frigtended too... we all started getting ideas...!! Then me and pravin started running toward the temple in order to search bhabhi. Even we ran for some 2-3 kilometeres we couldnt find her. We visited some small temple in between and pray to god for her safety. Finally we met her after sometime and told her about our thinking and ideas abt her. We waited for papa, mummy and bhaiya to come. They reached and bhaiya told some word, certainly not a lovely word, and bhabhi became sad.
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