Vacation..

ing in Goa is soooooooo cool.
Beautiful weather, laid back towns, lazy everybody and everything and an entire jing bang of stressed, exhausted and tired-of-rains-family (Us).
This vacation was planned long back and thank God that this was planned, it was a good break from otherwise monotonous days and schedule (ya its just been a MONTH at work n already it feels like its a drag...gone are those days when there was so much to do and so little time and you breathed and lived in the office...and...I need to cut it short here).

Back to Goa, what made it all the more special was, it was Chiku's 4th Birthday. The gal has grown so much, and she was excited about it. Well, actually, she is always excited about everybody's birthday. Her Friends birthday(seems like there is somebody or the other celebrating their birthday everyday in the school), my birthday, amma's birthday, daddy's birthday, pappu's birthday and a huge excitement was for when Sunny was born.

Things we did in Goa - well actually the things the gals(me n Chiku) did in goa:

We danced, at some random songs that were played in the gaming area. We did that every single day. Everytime the music system wud go on, chiku would ask her new-found-friends to dance

We attended a cookery class. We attended vegetable carving, where chiku demanded that that sunflower out of carrots be handed over to her and the hostess sweetly looked at me and said it has to be kept near the swimming pool area, and where I was openly vocal that we shall flick the flower, if it comes to that.

Though it was nice n relaxing time for us (we decided not to venture out too much, since sunny is just 6 months) the best parts were:

When we went to the beach, benaulim is the most beautiful beach that I have seen till date. Clean and totally isolated from the commercial crowds. The clean beach and the chilled waters and the lovely sun setting was a picture-perfect view to just sit there n drink-in, breathe-in all the beauty. Thats the first time I saw chiku being absolutely quiet and enjoying the waves and the sand under her feet.

When we landed in the hotel restaurant and found out it was karaoke nite. I guess the only people excited in the room were YOURs truly. So Chiku n me sang a couple of songs

Phela nasha (the name of the movie is on the tip of my tongue but just not coming out)

Bhaag re mann (Movie Chameli)

and we sang a duet with the host 'Aaj kal tere mere pyaar ke charche har zubaan par'

I started to sing 'Phir chidi raat baat phulon ki' and found that it wasn't so easy to sing.

Chiku was obviously very happy to sing the song, so was I, I mean I thut I couldn't sing at all, but ya I believe I did a good job and since we got quite a round of applause(thats another thing that as we continued to sing the applaud just died down since we were the only ppl n singing and in the end our audience were Su n Sunny n the host n the waitors n chefs came out to hear). Since most of the time the mic was in my hand, once we went back to our dinning table chiku insisted she wanted to sing a song. Yup, she sang, You are my sunshine (but the damn mic wasn't working properly). And I thought that was the best song I heard. Once when everyone had left, Su decided to test his voice, and I was very surprised that it turned out to be super, he sang very well and ya next time su u can head to the mic without my prodding n threatening and calling u a bore.

We attended yoga, where chiku made a good attempt of enjoying and doing the surya namaskar by herself, and I was struggling to keep pace with the instructor and oggling at old ladies doing yoga with such vigor & zeal. Here I was huffing and puffing, and when the instructor said come on pep-up we will do the surya-namaskar one last time(that was only the 3rd time we were gonna do it), I thought he sent a sly smile across to me. Whatever!!! Hello!!! I just delivered(so what If Sunny is 6 months old). I am not venturing into my Gosh-I-need-to-lose-loads-of-weight.

We went to the beach and in the water, though chiku got bored once her friends(Ria and Meha) were going back to the hotel. But ya the time we spent there, I thought I saw a kind of peace n calm in her eyes.

Chiku made great friends with Ria n Meha, and their dad complimented chiku saying that "she is very social" (I must agree, she is).

Sunny, on the other hand was himself, the change of weather and location didn't do anything to him, anything nasty I meant. He was happy that he spent a whole lot of time with Daddy dearest. Oh ya, you could tell, he would call out to Su, if Su was arnd and had not picked him up within 5 secs of Sunny spotting him.

On our return, we met with 2 sets of people, one who were awed by the fact that we went out(rather dared to go) on a long vacation (7 nights and 8 days) with 2 kids and one that too 6 months only. Two, were the ones who were disappointed that we didn't go sight-seeing and go out partying and go out eating out. Well, neither of these guys matter, we had a good time as a family and thats that.