black forest surprise

weekend of 27th June

gishu, mikil, purva, ajith, sahil, vrushali, diana, bharatan, uday, sujata, supriya, shekhar, archana, ankit, yash, savita, vinod, neepa, susmitha (almost!) and ofcourse dhruti

Happy Birthday Dhruti!

We spent a week "plotting" (no meta data) this surprise for Dhruti. This was one event that Gishu could not refuse! we were piling on into their new house in Lodha. It was necessary that Dhruti catches no "wind" of this event as it would spoil the surprise. So, I was quite taken aback when she walked up to me and said: "Tumlog ka plan hai kya aaney ka? Agar hai to bol do, I will make arrangements". I gave her a foot-in-my-mouth expression and tried to make some lame - "You know how the group is and it is raining as well nowadays you know...". Luckily she took the bait!

Neepa (Yes, Dil mey jagah nahi hai, we know) was glad to arrange for the surprise and even offered to make the dinner, which we unfortunately refused. We caught some quick grub at Veg-World and then packed some last minute naturals ice-cream boxes for the birthday!

Then it is rather quick. Park cars, jump up to 17th, drop bags and get comfy, come down to 3rd. Ding Dong! Greatfully enough she is not expecting us at all! The big crowd, the cake and the wishes bring out the smile on Dhruti's face :)

"Stop the Video-gaming", SHOUTS Neepa when it feels like dhruti's birthday was just an excuse to play the new Virtua Tennis Wii on Gishu's LARGE LCD monitor! After which some courteous few drop the gaming and join together for some dumb-charades with Dhruti. Movies like "pyaasi aatma", "andheri raat mey diya tere haat mey", "jism" and more sidey ones are enacted! One notable dialogue of that episode is: "Body parts dikha sakte hai kya?". This continues until 5 AM! Some more of the gang departs and the rest hit the bed!

Morning - chai and poha and then some of us are given a tour of Lodha and Rustomjee sites. Sujju Neepa and me take it one step further to Kalpataru Hills while what is left of the gang (Diana, Sahil, Ajith and Vrushali) wait up at Cinewonder's Pizza hut.

Neepa kicks us good bye and then we end the day with a "romantic" movie (Terminator Salvation). One gets some Hindi movie smells in the course of that movie!

All in all, another great day together!