The Great Outing (Trip to Anandadhama) Day 1 - Part One

Our company has planned for a team outing and it was organized for the domain wise and the trip was to a resort called Anandadhama which was 91 KM from Bangalore on the bank of the river cauvery. It was planned on 12 December 2008 and 13 December 2008, the plan was that we start here early in the morning and reach there before lunch on 12^th December and then start from there after lunch on 13^th December. There were around 30 members for the trip.

I have packed things a day before itself and was ready on 12^th December and went to Vijayanagar to be pickup point for few guys and I was one of them. There was a huge delay and the bus reached Vijayanagar one hour late. I was totally frustrated and tired of waiting and got into the bus. Then I heard the delay was due to Praveen (he was called Bijapura by our colleagues as he was from Bijapur).They were asking him to dance for delaying the trip and he was very hesitant. There was another shock on the way since the place through which we are supposed to go was in mayhem was the news. Kanakapura was the place we were supposed to go through and the government was trying to expand the road there, in this process few houses were demolished and people were stoning at buses and all kind of vehicles. So initially we thought of making a visit to the Art of Living ashram nearby but Prakash one of our colleague said he knows another way of reaching that place and can guide us and took over.[picture Bijapura (Crocodile Hunter)with his swimming goggles]

Then he chose the place where we can have breakfast not a big restaurant but a small hotel which is for “Thatte Idly” and is located in “Bidithi”. We stopped there for breakfast. The breakfast was two Thatte Idly’s and one vada with chutney and little butter. It was great in taste and then we carried our journey the path we took was a horrible one. Then we had some dancing and Sudhakar was astonishing with his moves and there were other fellows like Prasath Reddy who was also dancing with great moves and along with Prakash and Praveen (not the Bijapura, there were two Praveen’s). I too joined in for sometime. Sunil (My Manager) was also great and he got people break the hesitations and got almost everyone to dance. Prasath gave gestures of some Telugu actors like N.T.R, Balakrishna and so on. Sunil on the other side was giving gestures of some Kannada actors like Dr. Rajkumar, Shankar Nag and Vishnuvardhan. Then he finally got Bijapura into the party and he too danced. He had swimming goggles we made him wear it and dance. Everyone wore that swimming goggles and took photos. We started saying he is having swimming goggles and all so that he can see things clearly underwater. Bijapura is going to hunt crocodiles and because the crocodile hunter (Steve Irwin) died he (Bijapura) will become the next crocodile hunter and we all started calling him Crocodile Hunter. The roads were like they were built in Stone Age. Somehow we reached the place around 1.45 P.M. (Picture 1 Thatte Idly. Picture 2 Prasath Anna giving N.T.R Gesture.)

The place was totally inside forest and there was no network coverage. I looked into mobile and felt really bad as I cannot make calls or attend any calls. On the other hand was very happy since I will be disconnected from the outside world totally. This post covers till the forenoon the activities that happened in the afternoon will be continued in my next post.