It was sunday the 24th of august, i was quite devastated, life seemed to have halted , i could see nothing but a black hole ahead. It is when my brother suggested to do hell with everything and go on a trip (he pointed to goa but my dearest bro just missed a small detail that i being a lone women traveler, even if i turn to minimalistic clothing and run on the beach, still it might not be that fun ;-) ) So I viewed my options and zeroed down to Jaipur ; considering it to be accessible from delhi, but most importantantly it had my friend Kanwalpreet kaur doing her postgraduation in pathology from SMS Medical college. So i messaged her and after throwing some,"I have my seminar" tantrums (she is a PG afterall)  the date was decided to be 6th of september.

Journey 

                     I got my train tickets booked. Delhi Bandra gareeb rath that leaves delhi sarai rohilla at 9:20am was the only train that could make me reach around 2pm, the time my friend's duty gets over. I have to say i was'nt very positive about the train but beyond my apprehensions the train was good. It is an AC train, it started EXACT on time. There were two foreigners to accompany me, about 17 year old boy and 20 year old girl. Looking at them i was wondering , that is an age my mom did not even let me go alone on a bus. Indian moms and we poor Indian kids take a lot of time to be bold enough or blind enough.
                   There were lot of vendors serving food and tea inside the train comming every 5 min. You can't remain hungry even if you want to. Some sleepy guy took my upper berth so i happen to get his window seat. The view was so soothing. Small hills accompanied the entire way with occasional site of peacocks. Women could be seen working in the fields and everyone had one thing in common , Flourescence. All were wearing dull ghaghras with bright duppattas coloured flourescent pink, orange or yellow.
                  The train had arrival time of 2:10 and it reached at 2:10. The garib rath was'nt that Garib. I took an auto to the college and it took an exhuberent 120 rs. (I gave 50rs on return). Finally i reached her hostel and seeing her i screamed her name. She always has a 1000 watt bulb lighted on her face that lights up your heart. I hugged her and it was such a bliss.

                  But OMG what happened to her. The ***y curves she had finally got after 2 years of hardwork (for postgraduation) are all gone in 2 months of pathology. Bechari , i wonder what medicine or gynaecology would have done to her. Lol

  Her hostel

                 We talked as if steam is coming out of a pressure cooker . After about 15 min we actually had to calm each other down as we had limited time. We had to get ready for our first outing which she had decided to be World trade park . ( Just so you can get a feel of her hostel , it was an old 60s style hostel with high roofs and lots of corridors. The best part about it was her room window, it was actually a kuch kuch hota hai window ,only it had no Rahul on the other side but something even better ; the morning breeze and view )
                 I took a few minutes to call my mom. I told her i am in Jaipur. Yes , i did not ask her or even tell her about it. I genuinly thought my parents will have apprehensions about it and i did not want them to be all worried till i reach. I am that lucky girl who has all access to my parent's atm cards so i could take this liberty and my parents are so sweet they said ENJOY.
                 Then just as we leave , kanwal tells me i am actually going to a self invited birthday party in the evening which happens to be her batch mate Priya's. As expected out of me i told her i love free food . Just before we left i wished Priya ; a very sweet girl with lush long hair ; just to have a bite of her birthday cake.

World trade park

                  In about 20 min and 70 rs we reached the mall. A huge place that looked majestic from outside. Kanwal became the guide and walked me through. It has very innovative architecture with intricately carved roof and pillars. There is this whole section of shops depicting statue of liberty, leaning tower of piza, boat , train, etc . It actually makes one appreciate the architect. I concentrated on the architecture so that i could go blind to the shops and it actually helped.

                  After roaming through and getting tired we decided to eat. There is this restraunt that actually offered us chat platter, including papri chaat, dahi bhalla, pau bhaji, dhokhla and sone pe suhaga ; gulaab jamun. We had our taste senses all awakened. To finish it perfectly we ordered garlic bread exotica from pizza hut corner. 

                  There we were after a perfect meal revitalized to roam a bit more . Just then we saw a shop that said , " 50% off flat " . I need not to mention how excited two women can be to see that. It was a shop that sold vases and flowers , soft corner of kanwal. Just by looking at the shop i knew , today kanwal's father is getting looted. 

                 I have to say it was heaven. Everything we saw was what we liked. We roamed around like two little girls left alone in a chocolate shop. It was all 50% off. After so much struggle we got down to a blue coloured vase; it was beautiful; just to know it was in fresh. There was a moment of silence and we began our struggle again. We also wanted flowers so we asked the shopkeeper to make a bunch. Per flower was 300 to 600rs. It was time we came down to some humility. We told him,       " bhaiya sabse saste waale ( show us the cheapest)" and there with a slight side smile he gave us what we wanted. Btw the cheapest were also 160rs per stick and far more gorgeous.

                  After approx 45 mins we had what we wanted. Special thanks to the person showing us through. He was very patient with us specially as we asked him the cost of almost everything he had.

                 And so we came back as we had a birthday party waiting.

Priya's birthday

                 Comming back we got all decked up for the party. Specially me as i was fed of just being in my pajamas. It was time my eyes got the feel of the kajjal back again. Oh! i forgot to mention i bought a card and chocolates for the b'day girl. I do'nt know whether it was to save myself from the shame of pressing myself on her or just the feel of having her remember me in future.

                  Garden cafe was the selected venue. It had a beautiful open air seating. The food was good , though a bit spicy but just because of the chocolate brownie with ice cream in the end i would give it full marks. It actually made me remember chocolate brownie with icecream of kobe sizzlers amritsar.

Birthday girl

                  Taking some time i and Kanwal chit chatted. Somebody suggested to visit Chokhi dhani. It is a place that depicts Rajasthani culture and actually gives you the feel of being in Rajasthan. To this Kanwal lamented , " It is after 7:30 pm."  We both knew the meaning . So i took it as an opportunity for some spicy sarcasam and asked kanwal," Why don't you have a boyfriend with a car?" lol. ( Now this is on all of you to guess whether my friend does not have a bf or has one without a car. I can't figure out which one is more tragic...lol)

                   The day ended with a walk to the hostel. I warned kanwal to get up early morning so that we can see the maximum places possible, and i went to sleep with alarm for 6 am.

Sunday the 7th

                  The alarm went off at 6 am. I enjoyed the slow breeze from her window and went to sleep again. At 6:30 am i finally managed to sit up on the bed just to fall on the other side in exactly 4 seconds. Final finally we got up at 9:30. All ready, we did our breakfast with parantha and chai and left at 10;30am.

                  We wanted to visit 3 forts namely Nalagarh, Jaigarh and Amer. Somebody had told kanwal that Nalagarh and Jaigarh were just 1.5 km away so we thought visiting these two only due to time constraints.

                  We took an auto and asked him to drop us at Nalgarh or Jaigarh whichever is nearer. He took 120 rs and dropped us somewhere.