The day the exams got over, couple of friends called me over to the mess in the evening. The plan was to leave for nainital in like 30 minutes. Surprisingly 14 people got ready...Now our college is far from city, but we have insti transport at 30 minutes to and fro..Somehow we missed our bus....Then we took a lift from truck, tam-tam(the 3 wheeled 'be all' of north india), and rickshaw and finally ran for the last 4 kms. But we missed our train by just 5 minutes.

Tired, we went for dinner....Decided to take two taxis from lucknow to nainital, a distance of 500 kms!! I guess we just wanted a good break. So the 14 of us started in two qualis. Some started cribbing about "planning should have been better and crap". I had a hard time not to tell them "shove it up your ***". Somehow all of them landed in 1 taxi and we in another. And everyone there slept while we went singing all the way to nainital...

Nainital was just awesome. In nainital there is basically this central lake "naini" located in the ceentre with hills all around. It was a good week-end with sat-sun-mon(15th aug). Sadly other 500 people also thought the ame thing. So there was no scope of a room in the city itself.We decided in some seedy hotel which smelt like we had come to stay after ages.

Fortunately we got a place, actually a bungalow, 4 kms uphill because it just got a cancelled booking..The view was the best in nainital and the place was fabulous with a Karaoke room too...Another group also joined us and the 21 of us lived there for 2 days. It was really great to sit around the bonfire at night.