Getting grrrh.....over the status of friends in US .While we here are sweating in the desert of Madurai weather, guys there are giving cool poses with their beloved and some over there feeling bad about the 3"inches snow huh?But what part had snow played in my life????I have funny experiences to share.
Those scenes in Indian cinema showing snow spread as a white velvet with balls thrown on one another mostly by the lead pair always wanted to feel how it was like to be in it .But being the month of September we were not destined to find snow in Manali but the orchards were full of apple trees. Small streams had apples - those apples which costed hundred and more were bit by us directly from the trees.Apples and snow do not get along with one another .A stretch of basmati rice fields also feasted our eyes.But they could not be as exciting as playing in snow?!The guide promised to take us to Rohtang pass to show us snow.Hiring those leather jackets and boots that stinked (this is the worst part)we set on but even after we went there he told we should take the ponies uphills and the poor creatures carried us above and we appeared as if we were set on an adventure to find out some hidden treasure, he showed the distant snow clad mountains and he made us believe we were going to be at the snow land at last.The pony at times climbed at right angles and the helper gave us some tips to ride .Somehow we came to a place where we could not see anything like snow but rocks and there were group of 4 young men around a setup that had a 25 sq.m of dirty snow.
The great effort made by the ponies for our endeavor went futile .There was a flag fixed near it and a pair of skiies stuck to the ground and a couple was standing over that and took photographs.The man held the flag with that achieving pose after climbing the Mt.Everest and the photograph came out so well that the man had the expression of Tenzing.We both were asked to stand on the skies and the helpers, you knew what they did, took out fresh snow from a flask and threw on us from all sides when the cameraman clicked and the photograph looked as though we skiied for many kilometers in the Himalayas .When we returned to Manali bazaar a local shopkeeper had a photograph in his reception.His legs were plunged in 3 feet of snow and had put some snow over his head and also on his shoulders proudly as if he was wearing a medal .And that was taken on the place where we stood there. But anyhow he would have not skiied like us LOL!
Those scenes in Indian cinema showing snow spread as a white velvet with balls thrown on one another mostly by the lead pair always wanted to feel how it was like to be in it .But being the month of September we were not destined to find snow in Manali but the orchards were full of apple trees. Small streams had apples - those apples which costed hundred and more were bit by us directly from the trees.Apples and snow do not get along with one another .A stretch of basmati rice fields also feasted our eyes.But they could not be as exciting as playing in snow?!The guide promised to take us to Rohtang pass to show us snow.Hiring those leather jackets and boots that stinked (this is the worst part)we set on but even after we went there he told we should take the ponies uphills and the poor creatures carried us above and we appeared as if we were set on an adventure to find out some hidden treasure, he showed the distant snow clad mountains and he made us believe we were going to be at the snow land at last.The pony at times climbed at right angles and the helper gave us some tips to ride .Somehow we came to a place where we could not see anything like snow but rocks and there were group of 4 young men around a setup that had a 25 sq.m of dirty snow.
The great effort made by the ponies for our endeavor went futile .There was a flag fixed near it and a pair of skiies stuck to the ground and a couple was standing over that and took photographs.The man held the flag with that achieving pose after climbing the Mt.Everest and the photograph came out so well that the man had the expression of Tenzing.We both were asked to stand on the skies and the helpers, you knew what they did, took out fresh snow from a flask and threw on us from all sides when the cameraman clicked and the photograph looked as though we skiied for many kilometers in the Himalayas .When we returned to Manali bazaar a local shopkeeper had a photograph in his reception.His legs were plunged in 3 feet of snow and had put some snow over his head and also on his shoulders proudly as if he was wearing a medal .And that was taken on the place where we stood there. But anyhow he would have not skiied like us LOL!
