Monday, December 10, 2007

Gators in action, I watched live!!

Lots of intersting things happened in the recent days and I can pick the best one among those. We made a trip to Orlando for the thanksgiving holidays. We had planned to stay there for five days including a trip to Gainsville on one day. Palani graduated from University of Florida and he watches his school football. He really loves it and makes his schedule arranged in such a way that he watches it on saturdays whenever there is a match. Anyway, we had'nt planned properly and so we did not purchase any tickets for the match, in prior. So, we were sure watching the match that saturday in live would only be a dream.

That saturday morning, we drove to Gainsville having no clue of how we would get tickets. Perhaps, we drove only to see the school and his professors. I was really amazed to see the crowd. To be frank, I have never seen such a crowd for anything else. I saw each and every person dressed in orange and blue . I have no idea of school football except for I know the little basics I got to learn from Palani. I was interested to watch a match in live as it was my first time.

Ah, I feel really excited going back in my thoughts to the match and the stadium. I was inspired to support the gators. Though I am not a gator, I should say I was truly for it. I was equally enthusiastic as Palani for watching the game. The chillness, breeze all did not seem to bother me at all. I am not familiar with many of the technical terms. I knew very few terms as I get to hear often. I was surprised to see three jets going across the stadium at a great speed when the match began. I was greatly astonished and it was for Gators. I was excited to see the interests of so many people. I could understand the crowd applauding Tebow , the Quarterback often. I was curious to hear about the Quarterback from Palani after all this. Anyway, he keeps telling me a lot of information that I can relate. Recently , I even heard some childhood story of Tebow from Palani. I showed a great interest ,which I myself couldn't believe.May be I will start following the game and become a great fan of gators.

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

My Camping Experience !! Part 1


This weekend was very enjoyable and will be a memorable one indeed! We went for a camping to KOA Shenandoa Park, Virginea. To start with , I should say we were thinking that camping would be nice when we go with a group ( atleast another couple). My husband always had a like for camping and I had no clue of how it would be. We used to have regular chats when planning weekends for summer about this topic also. But this topic always ends with a point that we need another couple to put up the tent and so on. Then , finally we decided that we are going to proceed with camping that weekend no matter who joined.
We booked a primitive site(no current and water) in the park . We started planning about the stuffs we should take and bought one by one. The day arrived and we started with all the stuffs packed and some food too. Our journey was cool with regular chit chatting . It was drizzling slightly and it began to rain very heavily that we could'nt even drive. We had checked the weather in the morning and found everything was okay. We were slightly into thought about how we were going to put up the tent and so on if it was raining. Even then, we drove with good fun. We reached the spot and the weather was awesome to our suprise.
We opened our tent bag and started putting it up. We tried for about half an hour when an old man from the next tent came and offered help. Our tent construction was completed in five minutes then :) We unpacked some stuff and ate something what we had brought. The place was awesome with a waterfalls close by. We could hear the sound of the falls all the time. There were lot of tents nearby and the place looked good.People were engaged in activities like swimming, fishing , playing golf etc. Kids were having a great time playing and tubing.I was excited about the camp fire. My husband had bought some stuffs like starters, logs of wood etc. I was waiting for the darkness. We had brought some marinated chicken to roast in the camp fire. It was about 9.30 when we started making the fire. It was total darkness and could not see anybody . Chicken roasting in the camp fire made it more interesting. We sat relaxed for sometime when it started to drizzle slightly. We went into the tent. I had always dreamt of sleeping inside a tent when it is raining. I was overjoyed when it started to rain. We had small battery lights with us. It was so exciting .
The next day, we got up late at about 10.00 AM. I should say we started feeling hot slightly inside the tent so we got up. We slept so well in the tent with no discomfort. We decided to go out to some place that day. We looked into the brouchers we had . We came to know about a natural bridge zoo , which was 1 hour drive from our place. A seperate post will come up about the zoo.