After yesterday's long trip, we were so tired and me got waken up by Venky at 10AM (I think)... Seems Few more friends of Venky also come there.. Everyone is from Infy... Except me... I met most of my friend's friend.. They are really good.. Few to name are Brijesh, Vick, Prashanth, Phany, Suresh, Raj and Keerthi, Viji, Aparna, Aruna.. If I missed out any one sorry 4 that.. Poor memory...
I called up my ex-roommate in India Saravanarajan who travelled (drove) all way from New jersey to Pittsburgh to see me( appadi dhan solluran).. So we plan to meet at Sri Venkateswara(SV) temple at Pittsburgh at 1PM.. Before that Venky has to return the rented Liberty Jeep. He went out and came back at 10:30 AM.. By the time he came it as 12 and when we started to temple it was almost 1pm from home... Called up Saravanarajan and asked him to start... We both reached exactly at the same time... Perfect coordination.....This temple is the oldest temple in America. It was surrounded by hills... It was pretty good..
Yes of course.. I went especially to have puliyotharai, thayir sadham... It was pretty good.. Each dish costed 2$. Pretty cheap though.. After that we clicked some photographs...
It was pretty good to meet my roommates, collegemates who are good friends at a very good place.. Going back in time, it is almost a decade we met for the first time... How many years, months, weeks, days passed.. Seems it all happened very near and it is a long period...
Next we planned to go to Sand Castle Theme park .
This is a water theme park.. Covering theme parks one by one.. Previous one was Six Flags at Vallejo,CA.. Since we reached that place around 3pm, half day pricing came into effect. We paid around 19$ per head and inside 2$ for a locker.. As soon as we got inside, me and venky where really odd with full pants and t-shirts.. So we quickly turned to shorts and got ready for the slides..
There were two opinions.. One Go for big ones first so that you can cover before the park closes. Second, if you cover big at first place, you will loose interest in smaller ones.
The second point got much vote and we went ahead with that plan. Covered almost all rides..The rush was not that much, so the waiting time was less and in almost 2 hrs we are able to cover most of them.
Among them my favorites are diving into 12 feet water and lightning express. Lightning express is amazing.. There were two rides in this. One you will be falling near vertical from a height of 40ft and another one from a height of 80ft.. It was really thrilling and amazing..
Ofcourse, I closed my eyes when I was falling from 80ft height.. You are light and doing a free fall.. Pretty much interesting.. After this we went to 12 feet water diving 2 more times and directly went to the wave pool.
At exactly 6:10 the waves started and went on for 10minutes. I've to learn swimming more.. As of now I'm able to go and come out of water. Need to learn various styles... Adding this to my TODO list.
By 6:30 we planned to leave for the day.. I went ahead and clicked some pictures. The park slides closes by 6:30 and it was pretty empty now. You have advantage taking the photographs when no one is there. You don't need to wait for people crossing and don't need to break there privacy...
At the end of the day we had some Haldirams snacks and after that some ice cream too. It is pretty good day finally and a gr8 finish... At 7:30 we started to each our home...
Me and venky planned to go to Toysurs a Toy store. Went there and found the Wall-e toys pretty interesting and couple of cars... I'm in dilemma to buy the RC controlled toys, since I didn't find any better deals there..
After that we planned for the dinner and found that Venky's friends are going to Laser Tag (Laser Storm) a game... So we directly headed there.. We went there a group of 11... We played nearly 3 games totally. It was 13$ per head for whole night.. We played the laser game till 12 midnight.. It was good experience...
Finally we reached home at night 1am.. Oh.. this is a very long day for me.. In another 3 hrs I've to start to airport for my next trip.. At night 1am we had dinner.. Samabar came from another home, venky put rice in Microwave oven.. It was pretty good. I had rice with sambar and Karvipillai podi which I got from India. It was pretty good.. Today most of the food are Indian... Am I really missing Indian food? Time has to tell me the answer..
By the time, when I slept it was almost 3 in the morning.. Didn't forget to put the alarm on.. See you in next day experience..
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