Expensive Coffee, Long Ride, Great Worship, Extremely tired and I'm back!!

Hello you guys, good morning/afternoon one and all. oh my God what kind of two days we had at my spiritual tour I was talking about the other day that I was going. It's been three days here since I have been active but I already missed you loads. I was often talking about you people with my husband and Mom and they were like, "you should have brought your laptop here" lol. Sadly, because it is a heavy mountain region, we barely had network connection inside the rooms that were allotted to us and every time we had to call or send a message, we need to go out and stand in the corridor. But no complaints about that because I had an extreme busy two days with one thing or another kept happening, to the point where I even forgot to take pics to upload on Noise..

On Friday, we took our car from our city and had to travel some 140+ kilometers to reach the town which is my native.. by 4, we were tired and wanted some coffee but could not locate nice shops in the middle of the highway. We have to stop at an expensive shop called "Coffee day". But silver lining is that we had freshly brewed coffee even though it tasted like crap. The bill for 4 coffees and a tea was a whopping 850/- rupees.. In dollars, it is just $10 but in India, 850/- is such a massive unnecessary price to pay for one time coffee which we can get 4 coffees for one dollar in a normal street side vendor... After that sad experience, we promised ourselves we would never drink from that brand again lol..

By 5pm, we reached our native, which a well developed town and is under going some massive development and extension right now, with construction of new houses, bridges and everything has changed and we barely recognized what street is what.. My mom was there to help otherwise we would have lost.. We reached a temple which I was longing to go that belongs to Lord Rama and thankfully, there was no crowd in there.. we had a great and pleasant worship and we came out by 5:30 pm. My Mom went to some sweets shop and bought some treats to give to her Mom and grand daughter and then we went to a near by temple of my spiritual guru called "Sai Baba" and again, we had a great worship. I met my graduation bestie there after so many years and we had some nice time there...

It was getting late for us and dark as well because it is tough to drive through a mountain at night. So, we left the town by 7 and started towards the mountain. It took us 45 minutes to finish check outs and submission of documents to authorities to take the ride to mountain and we finally reached it by 8. It was our time to go scan the paper that they gave us while we booked for accommodation in the month of March. We waited for some time and we got the message that we were allotted a room not so far from the main temple which we were thankful for. We bought dinner and took it to room and took some rest finally as I slept like a dead body lol..

The next morning was our worship in the main temple and my husband and Mom decided to give their hair to God (it is a religious practice to give hair to God) and they went downstairs to finish it. They had to take bath first and then we both (I and my girl) finished it, had our breakfasts and we went to our worship by 1:30 pm in the afternoon. We sat there and waited for the ritual to happen which finished by 3 pm and we were asked to join in the line to go worship God inside the temple. There were thousands of people in the line waiting and pushing each other to see God which was so uncomfortable for us or anyone with kids, especially small babies because there were a lot of people with months old babies. It took us solid one and half hour to finally see God and that too for only some 15 seconds... But looking at the idol for that little time was so satisfying to the soul.

We came out of the temple and they gave us "Laddoo" food offering and we ate it. We finally had our evening coffees, went to the room and immediately packed everything and left to our house. I reached by Saturday but we all had massive leg cramps and back pain to do anything at home yesterday and hence I took a break for one more day but I'm finally here. Oh my, how much I missed all of you.. can't wait to be more active and interactive now.. By the way, I prayed for all of you guys, good days are ahead :))

Thank you sponsors and my friends, I hope you all had/having a wonderful and blessed weekend

Yours, @Theblackdoll