Camping!

My last post was a clear indication that I was falling in to a depression. I knew it was high time to do something out of work to escape the consequences. So we decided to camp in the forests. My roomies and two of my college friends were game for the idea. The place was decided to be Devil's lake forest. Does the name sound creepy? Atleast the girls thought so! But it sure sounded exciting to the boys.

We started off at noon on Saturday with full zeal and vigor. I was a bit apprehensive about the weather because the forecast predicted scattered thunderstorms in the region where we were planning to camp. But we decided to brave the storm come what may. The forest was close to 250 Miles from our place. Rain was pouring down heavily enroute. But we were optimistic that the clouds would scatter away as we approached the destination. It took us more than 3 hours to reach the place. As we had hoped, the rain stopped and the sun came out smiling from inside the clouds.

We immediately dived in to work - erect the tent before the rain started again. Everything went cool and the tent was erected in less than 10 minutes. Then it struck to our minds that we had forgotten to fill our drinking water cans. So L and yours truly took the car and went to the nearby town searching for a drinking water fountain. It took us nearly 45 mins to find one. We filled our cans and headed back to our tent. In the meantime darkness had fallen and the rest of our gang had done a great work of lighting the camp fire.

We had fun dancing around the fire till mid night. We kept the car engine idling and the stereo was turned out loud. Tamil kuthu songs echoed through out the forest. We had taken maize corns which we roasted in the fire and had a nice time eating them. Then we unpacked the dinner packs and had a sumptuous dinner. After that we realized that everyone was tired to death. We decided to call it a day. There was space exactly for six people to sleep inside the tent. We tried to sleep but the temperature went below 0 and everybody started shivering. We managed to pass the night and were relieved when the first rays of sun shone through the roof of the tent.

B wanted to have some coffee and everybody felt the same. So we drove back in to the town and found only one mexican restaurant open. We decided to have a good breakfast and went in. We had pancakes, french roasts and potato fries. We went back to our camp site, brought down the tent and packed our things. We decided to explore the forest. We hiked around the lake and were tired around noon. We had a light lunch and decided to head back home.
Nobody had slept the previous night, so everyone fell asleep in the car except me since I had to drive back :(

We reached home around 7 in the evening, went to an Indian restaurant for dinner and decided to part ways. I dropped the girls in their apartment and came back home at around 11. Dint really know when I fall asleep and suddenly I heard a faint voice chanting my name. I realized monday had dawn and I had to get back to work :(