A weekend to remember.....

When i was boarding the bus at NY Penn Station Thursday afternoon , all I was thinking of was that I would be meeting Lis and we would have long long heart to hearts as we always do.Excited is a word that would fall short of what I was feeling .Kept on calling Lis just to let her know that yes I was finally coming to Fairfax... Country Roads , Shenandoah,Rhinestone Cowboy were just like natural tunes on my lips...Whatever gave me the feel that I am going far far away from the madding crowd ..If you happen to see Lis's and my profile in the popular social networking site, I feel our music choice just reflects where we stay and how life is around us..

The eagerness of a long weekend...A calm was settling around me and i fell asleep..The bus stopped at Maryland to drop off a few merry passengers probably visiting friends and family..Maryland meant DC was near and I was getting happier by the moment.Soon I was at New York Ave and there was an instant buzz.I guess the very hint of NY means a lot of noise.DC looked like a mela ground and everybody i met on the way to the Metro Station was actually looking for the Metro Station. Snaking my way through the crowd and eventually jumping red and orange lines I arrived at Fairfax.Lis came to pick me up in a green / gold line bus. Nice seeing her after a month.We made hurried plans of what to do the next day.We wanted to see the fireworks from Lincoln Memorial that was for sure. Mon z arrived from Philly and she called up Shal.Shal agreed to join in and so did Sona and Ini..

Made way to the Fairfax station on th 4th and we met Mank and Vaib.Boarded the heavily crowded train to DC.Soon we were joined by Ravs and Sag and a couple of scary gals.They wanted to take us to some never never land restaurant (walking.....!!!!) and when we refused i thought we would land up with some bruce lee kicks..Mank commented that one of the gals looked like the popular soap vamp...Komolika and we were in splits..Tat kinda broke the ice..We walked the streets of DC at night with my stilletos in my hand..and headed towards good 'ol reliable MacD..Just hogged and hogged...I have never seen such towers of ice cream and without any compunctions gobbled it down..Conversation got interesting and somehow we ended up christening Mon as Chirpy..After that there was no end to the rounds of teasing..We reached Fairfax and the walk home was really long...Big fan of ghosts that I am I was so excited when we decided to walk back home through the stretch of forest to have encounters of a different kind...I simply simply loved it..Ini was scared and the guys tried to make things worse for her...They just let out werewolf cries..Finally recahed home..Promising to meet up the next day , we bade goodbye.
Next day we went for a cruise in the Washington National Harbor and the day ended with a big bash at the Tandoori Nights in Arlington.We all paid for our own and actually handed out around 10 credit cards ..The maitre d' was kind enough to understand ..but Tandoori Nights was not the finale to the day.We met up again at Shal's place and started our discussion on the supernatural.Shal spoke about his real life experience.Ravs said that whatever happens in life happens for a reason.Maybe not for tomorrow but for many years later..Basically the butterfly effect..Things got interesting and we parted with a promise to discuss more on the same...
And as if to reinforce what we had spoken the night before something happened the next day.My bus timing got pre-poned and i needed to get a printout.Being a Sunday everything was closed.Was heading back disappointed from Staples when Lis and me met Ravs and Sag.Ravs said he would offer us a ride to Lis z school so that we could take a printout.And as we drove to GMU we laughed at only how we had discussed the night before how everthing happens for a reason and the reason for meeting kind Ravs was a ride to school ? :-)

Well though it seemed like that , I know why I met those wonderful people that weekend.I was meant to meet some nice friendly souls who make your life better.Yeah old friendships are like great wine but fresh ones are like the touch of a gentle zephyr.I cherish that weekend.And I always count my blessings for all the friends I have at this point in time in life ..

~A, Everything happens for a reason...