"True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation." - George Washington

It is indeed a fact that friendship is like wine, the older the better and what better than to chill out with friends for a day in the middle of nowhere and accelerate the aging of that elixir of life. It was late Saturday night or rather early Sunday morning, chuck it whatever u would call 3 a.m. in the Amir Ali halls that Nath and Aman came across that idea of going to Osiyan for the day and Nath screamed out my name and said let's go and it was decided we would find one more who could ride a bike and leave by 11 the next morning on two bikes and explore Osiyan. Aman disturbs my sleep the next morning at precisely 11.03 am by continuously banging on my door and says chalo Osiyan and turned out that there were more than 4 ppl going. then we set of, 8 people in an Innova + 2 bikes which made it 12, a treble of the initial contingent and there i started of on a fun journey with Mardia on the bike, initially very very apprehensive due to Mardia's inability to start the Pulsar, my comfort grew in tandem with his confidence and control of the bike, with him proclaiming us Roadies, we waited for the rest to catch up with us at the petrol bunk and I called Nayans after an agonizing wait and she proudly says Oh we saw u at the bunk we are near Sucheta Kripalani School and then we set off, we took a doubtful turn which luckily turned out to be right, found out that the Sucheta Kripalani School was a good 20 kms ahead of us and finally reached Osiyan....oh I forgot we also almost got killed by a lorry, Mardy trying to overtake the lorry and the lorry turned suddenly sans any indication, we survived and crossed the lorry when Mardia said, "m#(@&$(od, indicator nahi hai". Yeah we reached Osian and climbed the dune, a huge one, a mammoth one which made all of us decide - no more exercise for a week and we boy oh boy what fun we had on the dunes. Meher and Rukmani digging for treasure on top of the dunes :P, Arjun rolling down the dune and getting up coated with a fine layer of sand, lifting Deepa up and launching her into the sand, burying Meher and Deepa in the sand and ofcourse clicking pictures and me moving away so as to not disturb Arjun's thought process ;) I got it my son, was just playing along...and then we came back on another eventful journey with intelligent Mardia losing okok almost losing his way and we as in the Innova having to halt thrice to let mardia catch up with us, Mardia in the end turned out to be a safe and sexy driver and Nath taking the former only touching devilish speeds of 110 and ofcourse a fun filled lunch at 6pm in a nondescript Hotel baba ramdev with Kaju in every damn thing (Yuck!!!) and a trip full of pepsi, friendship and fun.......Thank You Guys, that was some unadulterated fun!!!

P.S: cant end this post without thanking His Imperial Majesty Aditya Milind Gupte for having kindly consented to give us his dearest possession and help us complete the trip - his bike.