Our Trip To Atlanta!!!

Firstly... It had been long since i posted any of my experiences.. It was just photos and that too crazy ones.... So i finally decided that i have to again start posting my exp :)

To start off Friday evening itslef we had plans of going to Atlanta.. there were 2 reasons for this, one was we had to attend a house warming ceremony and the other, we wanted to go to Atlanta.

We started around 2.00 PM in the afternoon on Saturday... Filled up the gas... and then left for the CNN center in Atlanta... But as we were half way we realized we would be late to CNN and so we dropped our plan to CNN... So we just moved on to go to the house warming ceremony...
We reached their place around 4.oo PM. the house was really good... It was just beautiful... We just had a tour of the house... left from there around 4.30 PM...

We had plans of going to the Sai baba temple in Atlanta... We had the directions with us... We were moving just fine when we suddenly realized we had a diversion... One moving East and the other West.. We thought lets go West.... And we went on and on........................................
Well we went a long way and we finally realized that we have come a wrong way and we had to take up East to go reach the right track...
We went on and stopped at a Gas station.. And went inside to ask if they could help us out...
Luckily.. there was a Indian Lady... her husband happened to be a trustee of the temple. And they were very frequent visitors... She gave us directions how to reach there.. and we went on according to the directions... We were narrowly gonna miss thew road.. but for our luck i just happened to see the name of the road on a small board.. We finally reached the temple..
We felt as if God had relocated so that we dint have to search anymore...

After all this our plans were to go to Saravana Bhavan in Atlanta... Well this was again 45 mins from the temple.. But we werent sure if we would reach properly.. We met a Indian Family in the temple.. We showed them the directions we had.. They gave us simpler directions... and even offered that they would lead our way till some point..and thus we covered 1/4 the distance without hassels... But even later we dint find it that difficult to reach there.. Oh we were so happy to reach the place.. We were literally screaming with happiness...

Then from here again we caught up the road back to Macon after a few rounds... and once we were sure we were on the right track... we just moved on and on... And we reached home at 12.30 in the night... So tired and stressed out...

Inspite of all this we were happy coz of the trip and all the more exited to go to the next one....

PS: Coz of all the confusion we took just 3 snaps... So no snaps from this trip...

More Pics!!!!!!

Macon temple...



Macon temple :)



Temple...



Plain roads....



No people... just roads..



Roads n roads...



Where are the people....



Roads Again..



Roads!!!!



SSN Office

A few pics!!!!

I was thinking of posting for such a long time... but somehow couldnt do it... Well here are a few pics of the place i live..

This is our apartment :)


This is from the front of our building...



From our balcony



on the way to Warner Robins....



in the evening after rains...




these are a few pics for now... Will update soon... :)

My First time in USA

Firstly, I was very busy for a few weeks... so was kind of away from the blogworld. Well I was in Hyderabad for official reasons for 2 weeks, now this was coz i had to come to USA. Had some training, so was in hyd for 2 weeks. I had to be in US by monday, so left India on Saturday - 9-Jul-05. Will never forget the date, coz of many reasons...

Well i had never seen an airport in my lifetime, and i had to change 4 flights. This was really scary. What if i lost my baggage??? What if there is any problem?? What if i face problems during immigration?? i had all these fears. We reached the airport quite early, I was so anxious... My family was there, but still i was so tensed that dint speak to them properly.

My first flight was to Mumbai from Blore. I was so scared of this itself. But then how those 1.5 hrs...dint realize. Luckily i got a window seat. Saw blore from such a height... felt like i am on top of he world. So much lights... and everything was so nice and beautiful....Well finally landed in Mumbai and then.... off to the international airport after a little confusion...

This flight was till Paris and then after the stop over it was to NY...Well till to Paris was good...There were 2 movies..well i slept for the first movie, then watched the secind.... we finally reached Paris after a long journey...Well in Paris we had nearly 2 hrs of stop over... we never realized how those 2 hours went by as we had to go thru a lot of security check.... the whole time we had to go from one terminal to another.... from one gate to another...was just so fed up with that... but then finally the flight started off from Paris.....

We reached NY around 12.30 PM on Sunday... I was so tensed... scared....would everything go fine..I was very excited about all this... and then finally from NY...went to Atlanta...then finally reached Macon...

My proj mates came and picked me up from the airport.... it is quite a beautiful places... not many people around....no people on road.... lots n lots of cars... it finally sunk into me.... I have reached US... and this was my first time in US...

I met Neels.... oops..we met each other

Well... let me start this when i was in Mysore... I got to know i'll be going to Hyd... and i thought -- hey, I can meet Neels ... then suddenly a little hesitation cropped up... would she like to meet me??? if at all we meet how will it turn out to be... So then i thought ok let me think about it later...

After 2 days in Hyd... Neels came to know i am in Hyd..and she passed on her mail id... and then again... I was hesitant... Shall i mail her...or shall i not... Then finally made up my mind and mailed her... then again should the mail be formal or casual.... Well i just wrote whatever came to my mind at that instant... and i got a reply from neels.... And wow!!! it made my day :)

In the mail itself she made me feel so comfortable... Well after a few more mails and phone calls...we decided to meet up on Saturday...

Saturday Morning... I was just relaxing a bit after my very very hectic week... Me n neels had decided to meet up for lunch... She had come near my guest house and given a call... I was just a few steps away...

Now i started thinking...how will everything be... how would she be... will she talk to me propelry??? Will I talk properly??? Just went down and on the road she was the only girl so could make out easily.... And then she smiled and said "Arathi??" and I say "Ya... Neelima" and after this short hello and hi..we got into the auto.... And then in a few minutes... We started talking... talking...talking... just dint feel that we were strangers till some time back....

Thank God I was so relieved... But the best thing was we both were so similar.... ofcourse little difference... but so much similar in our thoughts... how we felt for our family... how both of us LOVE our moms... and certain other things too... I couldnt believe that we could be so very similar. :)

Well we decided that we'll first do the bookings for the next day trip...and off we went for lunch... At lunch... most of the time we were talking... I was not even concerned as to what we were eating... We were more into talking and talking..... After lunch...we went to her college... Oh it was such a beautiful place... Old but wonderful... And this time again i forgot batteries for my camera.. so couldnt take any pics of the beautiful place...

She told me about her college days... there and we spoke a lot about how we were in college..how we are at home... how we trouble our moms... Sat in front of the fountain for a few mins... It was so much fun... We left the college and went for chota shopping(small shopping)... well on the way she showed me places where she used to have fun with her friends.... and i was so happy listening to all that...reminded of my college days :) We bought just 2-3 things... I bought a long earring... and she bought a clip... She just picked up one of them and asked my opinion... and in the short span what i knew of her... gave her my opinion... and we both just laughed... we commented on a few other things...finally finished shopping and parted, to meet up the next day for the trip....

I thanked God for sending such a nice simple yet wonderful person to me as a friend...

Well next day however we couldnt go for the trip together as she met with a small accident... I went with my collegue... Well about the trip...some time later...

Neels... u just made my day... I know i have told this to u already.. but i have a habit of repeating things.... ;)

Well I wouldnt say thanks... as it would just be a word, but i would like say it was a gr8 experience meeting u....and am already waiting to meet u again :)

Neel's experience about our meeting-here.....