Happiness = Wine + Cheese !

What is more pleasing than wine and cheese. For the young 20 year olds, cheese makes sense but wine is well blech! That did not stop us from going all the way to Sula Vineyards in Nashik. For a random weekend we decided to go over to Nashik and see how wines are made. This started off as  four people plan and a normal car would have been enough. But when the plan got out, we ended up with 9 people in all. A quails was booked, a friend flew over from Delhi so that he wouldn’t miss the trip and we all decided we were getting ourselves some wine  and fancy cheese.

We left Mumbai around 7 am and raced down to Nashik which is 180 km away. We had classic road trip were one friend went berserk and started singing at top of her voice. It didn’t help that she knows all the lyrics, including Honey Singh Raps! Life in those 3 hours brought back the carefree idiocy we all lived by. Slowly everyone loosened up.

  

What we didn’t realize was that it doesn’t take an entire day to just sip wine and that we missed few steps in planning this out. Sure we enjoyed that, played few games and forgot that it wasn’t a club. The pictures came out great. 

We got to know that we can do some grape stomping and that brought out the images of Priyanka Chopra in fashion.  We went in and went all out. We did cha-cha-cha, twist and the reliable Garba in the tub, almost pushed a friend in the tub, got our pictures taken by the staff and the visitors.  We hosed ourselves out and confronted the big Question, Whats Next!

   

Food! Sula had some expensive food and a student’s pocket couldn’t afford it. Local enquiry told us that there was another vineyard around Soma that had excellent food. We drove there. There were sprinklers on in the garden and naturally we went in. Ran around the park like bunch of kids and got all wet.  We provided lovely picture to few foreigners and were lucky to not be thrown out. We left the place in less than 15 minutes and in retrospect, that was awesome time. The food was way more expensive and we bowed out! 

 Next we headed over to a pond which was 

slimy but we paddled into the water, took few pics, scarred people around and came back.

 

What happened next was amazing. We sat down on the bank of the lake and talked about if we had some football or something. Out came handkerchiefs and in went some stones to make an indigenous ball. We played catch for some time. In that moment, clothes dried off, laughs came easily and we all forgot the worries and troubles that haunted us all. 

             The simplicity of it was astounding; all we needed was a break!

                                    

 Next stop was a local dhabba (Akshya Dhaba, do check it out!). 9 monsters ate like pigs, had 25 cups of tea and brought an awesome day to end. The happiest part was the bill came to 1400/- which made us all smile just a little more. Singing the good old Antakshari, we closed a pretty awesome trip! The students and professionals all came together as group of reckless friends who just wanted to enjoy. And that is my juju, my motivation and my optimism.

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