Hey one more time had a great weekend picnic at Mahabaleshwar.

This time I with bunch of office people, almost 35 people.

As soon as we decided to go for office picnic, Madhavi asked me to book for a Volvo as she was afraid to go in non-Ac bus. So we did it in time to free from last minute hassle. Also we booked an Economy Room at MTDC, Mahabaleshwar for Rs.600.

To book the room you can get the list of Agents from MTDC website.

On 27^th Feb 2009, Friday evening:

We both were working late in the office and got late too come home.

We started our packaging at 11 AM and ended at around 1:00 AM.

On Morning 28^th Feb 2009, Saturday:

Madhavi suddenly woke up and asked me did you check the time? I said no what happened let me sleep, And I realized we had missed our Bus which was suppose to be arrived at 6 AM at Parle, Bisleri.

Freaking!! “Now what”, I asked Madhavi.  She said,” Drop the idea we are not going anywhere”. I said,” No let me try to call bus conductor and request him to wait for us”.

After so many calls and talks finally we decided to catch office guys in their Bus.

To our agony that bus too started its journey and reached somewhere in Vashi.

Now we quickly rushed to out travel agent office and tried to get another bus but he said there is no other bus than the one we missed.

 But he suggested us to take another one till Pune and catch local bus to Mahabaleshwar.

Now it was time of judgment and luck. We decide to play our luck and called Mandar my office colleague to convince the other people to stop at Pune so that we can come with them. Mandar did his part well and we were on our chase.

Luckily our office bus got stuck in traffic so we got more time to catch them. It was been destined that we should come together. Finally we reached near Pune Toll Naka and we met there. Now I was but nervous that Madhavi shouldn’t get problem with Bus and all.

But luckily she managed to engage in talks and we safely reached in Panchagani without any trouble.

At Panchagani all the people ate the Lunch at roadside Hotel. 2hours later we reached at MTDC hotel at around 4 PM.

At room:

It was quite cozy room but it’s sufficient for couple. There was TV [without remote] and attached toilet bathroom with hot water facility.

Around 6 PM everyone was got ready to go around the city. Getting a bus in such small town is little pain as our Bus got stuck in because of small unattended car parking.

Soon it was dark and but still we left for Venna lake. There is good boating facility and people enjoyed their rides.

Opposite to Venna lake there were small Merry-Go-Round kind of games.

Madhavi and Pretty went for FreeFall ride and they seem like really enjoyed it.

I tried some hands on video games and to my luck I win some good bucks too.

Madhavi and I went on playing some games and thoroughly enjoyed the time.

We really had a good time over there.

Night:

After a dinner in market place we returned to our hotel and got slept but some our bachelor friends were spent that night with a camp fire till 4:00 am.

Return to home:

Weather was quite pleasant in the Morning, we checkout our place at 9:30AM.

In the morning there was no electricity so we had to wait till 9AM.

MTDC at Mahabaleshwar is really a nice place to stay. I would say its worth of price.

The area is quite large and scattered. The surrounding is just like a small Jungle. I seen so many species of Birds over there along with monkeys.

They also have Kerala Ayurveda Kendra near canteen. The rates were high but I think sometimes you can spend on luxury.

After breakfast we headed for our journey to return. First we went to see Sunset point and then Wilson Point. Both the locations are good.

While going to Panchagani bus was stopped by traffic police at one stop and bus driver and Police man got into small arguments. We were at fault because our bus was not having PUC certificate. Mean time I got down from Bus and requested the Police man in usual manner to spare with us.

To his kind I got the bus’s legal papers back and we started again for Table top point at Panchagani.

After some time we reached at Mapro factory. We just had good ice-cream and some good products from the shop and also buy strawberries from local vendor for Rs.45 per Kg.

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