Honeymoon should not end this way!!!

Posted by: madcaljan21 on: April 9, 2010

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I’m talking about none other than my own honeymoon.. I want to share this interesting story with my friends..

We got married on May 27, 2007 and we went on our trip to kulumanali ,a beautiful place in North India. We started on May 31 2007 and had planned for 6 days to spend there. The whole trip was planned by my husband and he wanted us to have a memorable trip for the whole of our life. Please note this sentence, as it has a greater effect towards the end of this story.

We started on May 31 and took a flight to Delhi. We reached the airport around early morning and our next flight to Manali was at 7.00 Am. We waited outside the airport for our flight, as the security would not let us in the airport until 5.00 Am. We were waiting outside for couple of hours. Finally they let us in and we walked towards boarding area. We waited till 10 ‘o’ clock and there were no signs of the flight announcement for our flight. Finally after really looong wait we were called for boarding the flight.  We boarded a minivan, the van went around the runway.

The minivan trip looked really long. It looked as if we are going to another airport on minivan. We thought that would be the whole trip, they would take us around the runway and drop us back at the airport. Finally we reached a Helicopter , it was 25 seat helicopter which would take us from Delhi to Manali. It was amazing as I have never been on one before. (not after also :P)

Throughout the journey we were watching outside, it was flying low, so we were able to watch the ground and it was really beautiful journey till manali. On reaching manali we took a cab to our hotel.  The cab took us on unpaved mountain roads in other words its hour and half roller coaster ride without seat belt. I felt like throwing up what I had for last one week.  Finally we reached hotel. (ooffffff)

Took rest, looked around the place, had great food and spend 6 days.The food was really amazing, actually my husband spent more time eating :).  He had acidity due to all possible food he ate and he still went for more with the help of ENO.

The last day we were about to start and we went to airport early in the morning. There were no one at the airport apart from us and the cleaners. We were sitting there talking something , sleeping for sometime and it was so boring. Finally people started coming in and then we checked in our baggage. After a long wait we got an information from the authorities stating that our Flight was cancelled. We got so tensed, as we had booked for connecting flights from Delhi to Chennai. My husband got so enraged and started shouting at the airlines personnel, it was very bad standing out side when there was a big fight going on inside.

Finally the airport person booked a flight for us from Chandigarh to Delhi at 4.00 Pm. It was 12.00 Pm at Kulumanali, and it would take five hours for us to reach Chandigarh. We took a cab with prior instructions that he is not supposed to stop the vehicle for any reason, picked up couple of biscuits for our food. We were happy when the driver told us that we were going to go via the highway and the roads are really good.  But later on we realized as if we were pushed from top of the mountain to the base.

Our previous cab trip was much much better. We were upgraded to a much better roller coaster.

The whole area was hilly , it was the roads connecting from one hill to the other. The scenery around us was picturesque, but we did not have the focus and energy to enjoy mother nature at that time.  We also passed through a beautiful long tunnel which ran for almost 3 kms , which was the first time we have been through such a long tunnel. Finally we reached a flat surface and we finally thought we are going to still live for a long time. It was already 4.10 and our flight was going to be at 4.30 Pm.  We forced the driver to speed up and finally reached the airport at around 4.25PM. We thought we were going to miss the flight. We met a person at the entrance who had the ticket with him and we checked the baggage and rushed to discover that the flight was going to be an hour late. This is a sign of relief but next tension began as we had booked a flight from Delhi to Chennai at 8.00 pm.  We grabbed something to eat at the airport and was waiting at the lounge. We both looked like we were pushed out of the center of galaxy and came escaping from man eating aliens . This is not exaggeration, we both looked like worn out couple :), not like newly wed.

The journey began from Chandigarh to Delhi.  It was the hottest airline I have ever been and we talked about opening the windows for better air conditioning. There was no option to do so. We reached Delhi by 7.00 Pm. My husband picked up the luggage from the cart near the plane as we dont have time to pick them up from the baggage claim area. We ran from one terminal to other terminal. On the way my shoes fell apart, but I had to run with that , what else to do. We checked in our baggage and finally went to get the boarding pass, there was a big queue waiting for the airline. The clock was ticking and we were really tensed. Finally my husband managed to talk to the officials and successfully came back empty handed.  After 30 mins in queue,  viola , got out boarding pass.

As soon as we got the pass we ran towards the boarding lounge, a security guard stopped us on the way and said we were not supposed to enter now. I thought since we looked like escaped terrorist he was treating like that :). But now we realised our flight was delayed and it was suppose to arrive at 8.30 and they would not let us in until 8.00Pm. We both could not stop laughing at this. Oh my god, we started running at 10.00 Am and we were like crazy till now. We strolled around the airport and finally we got a call for boarding the flight and stepped in. Wooooof!!! The seat was comfy and we settled down. If you think that was a big releif , I would say it was not as the lights went off inside the flight :(.

There was a power shut down in the flight, (ever heard this before?  )  all these reminded me of FINAL DESTINATION!! I grabbed my husbands hand and said “If this is the last day in my life , you will never be forgiven!!”. After sometime the power resumed, but believe me through out the journey I was thinking what if the power goes off on the way. Finally finally finally we made it , we reached chennai. Again another dare before reaching home, it was raining heavily and most of the streets were flooded with water. We bargained to a cab driver and finally he took us to our home sweet home. We reached home at 1.00 Pm, there was no power at house. It was pitch dark omg the day still did not end 😦 .  But we were so tired , we closed our eyes and thats all everything was dark. ( not like in movies, we got up the next day !!)

I know its really a long story, but its not even half of what I experienced.

It was such an adventurous, racy, thrilling  trip you can expect on a honeymoon.