Bridal shower, that too of Anklets. The youngest in the gang and at only 26 is gonna get married next month. Its unbelievable. And whats more unbelievable is that our dates turn out to be the same, as in her wedding date and my due date. Thankfully, I did get to attend her engagement ceremony which was extremely rocking and I in my 7th month danced away to glory. I am sure Anklets your wedding is gonna be really really good one, if not for you, but surely for the guests ;).
What was equally rocking, was, her gorgeous brother was on the floor all the while and when I was not dancing I was oggling (read - appreciating) the way he was dancing. I can go on n on but lets get back.
So, the gals decided, though it was too early, we needed to throw a bridal shower very soon or else I wouldn't have been able to make it. And I would have definitely hated it if I couldn't make it for the Last Bridal shower. And the mails started trickling, Anne initiated. The group now just has Me, Anjie, Anee and Anklets. It seemed a very spontaneous plan and we tried to keep it a secret but ofcourse we had to get Anklets to VASHI from Thane which was like a task, but then the plus point was we hadn't seen any of her engagement pics, and all of us were genuinely interested. So it was easy to get anklets to come down to Vashi, Anjie the ever-ready gal ;) said YES, Me, I was gonna be dropped so I didn't mind the travel.
Anee was working from Bangalore on friday but she said she would be back.
Righto, though at the minute the plan seemed to fall in place, well it was a spontaneous plan and generally in the gang the spontaneous plans fall in place much much beautifully than anything else. We had a slight hitch on friday night, Anee was in Bangalore, and was supposed to come back the same night, but the plans changed n she was travelling saturday morning, that sent our plans for a toss for a while. I think for couple of hours we were not sure what was happening, and then finally I sent a sms to d 3 saying lets do it. We delayed the plan by an hour (the plan was to meet at 11:30 and we actually met up at 1pm). Whatever the case we all could make it, even Anee, she was super exhausted but she just made it before lunch.
The Plan:
There were so many plans floating around, Parlour visits, Ayush Therapy visit(the ayurvedic massage stuff), shopping, lunch, coffee, dinner etc etc. We finally decided to just meet up and then go with the flow (that any ways works with all of us).
The Actual stuff:
Anklet was the first to reach (I was supposed to be the first to reach), I picked up Anjie on my way, we met up Anklet at CCD, saw the engagement pics, headed to Pot Pourri, met Anee just outside the place. Pot Pourri has a lovely ambience, very lovely reclining chairs. The gals ordered for Long Island Ice teas (Both Anklet and Anjie were high after their first couple of sips) I got myself a mojito(non-alcoholic, Su are u listening). The food, was the yummiest (we all agreed), we order Quesadillas, Roasted chicken, Pasta in white sauce and Sizzlers(I thought that wasn't that gr8 but alrightie). Amidst the food and loads of pics the lunch time just slipped by, it was 4 pm when we made our move.
The most glamourous event of the day was FISH pedicure.
We all were pretty excited, don't know abt the fish though.
In our excitement, we forgot to ask/enquire/google about the entire process of this Fish Pedicure. I think I heard Anjie say that its banned in US cos of the unhygienic way it is maintained. A quick tour was given by the gals there:
1. They(the gals) clean your feet. Put cellophane tapes on your shoe bites and cuts. Wipe your feet.
2. Put your feet in this tank filled with like about 400-500 Doctor Fishes. More about the Fishes(give them some credit after all the poor things are gonna clean don't know what all from our feet ;) ), these guys are from Turkey spas and nibble at your feet to get the dead skin off and that helps in giving some breathing space to the new cells to grow. Our question to the gal was do these fishes eat the dead cells or do they just nibble??? They said the fishes just nibble, oh then what happens to the nibbled dead skin??? (We actually didn't bother to hear the rest of it, or did we and we chose to ignore)
3. Get a regular pedicure done, foot massage, scrubbing n cleaning n ends with nailpainting.
Wow...so there we went.
It was Anjie n Me to start off, the gals instructed us, to keep our feet together in the water. Anjie went in first and enjoyed the minute she was in, I went in next, didn't know how to react, it was so tickkkkkkkkkllllllllyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy, I thought I will burst like a bubble. Anee was closely watching me n asked 'how is it?' I was like 'Nice (saali tu aa tujhe pata chalega khe khe khe )'. Anklets if that remotely hurts you have gotta tell me now, I am not doing it. Hats off to me n Anjie, we put up a great show, what sayz?
Our 15 mins flew, and we went for our regular pedicure stuff.
It was Anee and Anklet next, oh boy boy boy, I think everyone who saw them putting their feet would never go for Fishy :). Anklet and Anee both went in at the count of 3, and Anee screamed '$$$$$$$$$$hhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiittttttttttttt' I bursted out laughing and she was like ' Wat the hell is this B???'. Sorry Anee I couldn't have told u the truth, it would have killed all the fun. Anklet had covered her mouth so as not to yell and she kept telling Anee 'don't look at them(fish)'.
Anee was giving a running commentary to Anklet 'theres a big fish near ur lil finger, and so many fishes on your feet and this one is jumping and that fish just jumped now'. Just then the gal interrupted and told Anee 'Madam if you spread your toes these fishes will clean the dead cells between your toes as well'. Anjie gasped when she heard that, I went like 'what happened Anjie?' Anjie was like 'What did the gal just said? if you spread your LEGS...'. We all bursted out.
After the finishing touches of lovely shades of blues n mauves n pinks on our toes, we headed to Costa. This was the best bridal shower, and so different from all the regular ones, the others we had dinner at pop tates and leave for home, for this one we had lunch and fish pedicure and amidst loads of fun forgot to mention right at the beginning of the lunch treat to Anklet that this was her bridal shower.
Anjie gal,
You are super-cool, classy and its so wonderful to have a rich friend like you around;) but please don't dress up all the time, we have to overdress then.
Anee,
You know u would have been so dead if you would not have made it to this one. Love you gal for making it for the party despite ur filthy schedule.
Anklets,
Wishing you n RK a world of Happiness always. I am so glad you are getting married (hehahahaha).
Luv ya gals. The best Bridal shower ever.
