Smile Please…😊5

My infinite salutations at your divine lotus feet Swamiji 🙇‍♀️💐🌹💐

My native place is in Western Ghats,the most beautiful place u can imagine(if you are bored of hearing this already, sorry, i thought this piece of information is little important for this post so mentioning it again😅)

I had a wonderful childhood, every holiday was spent at grandparents place..Lots of cousins, and we had a wonderful time…we all would pack our food and go to waterfalls,trekking to hills…playing in streams, fields, forest…nothing can be more relaxing than spending time in nature…

And all the joy, for free of cost….!!

I told my husband, “see it is quite some time that we went on a holiday…All my friends are going on trips and posting their pics on social media and they all look so happy and relaxed..i also need a break, so let us go somewhere…..”

Husband said, “almost every month we visit your parents place, what more break you want?!”

Somewhat not satisfied with his answer and couldn’t tell him, that is not enough to look relaxed in snaps..we need to spend some money also to show what it takes to relax…

i told, “yeah let us give my parents also a break(by not going there) and let us go to some other place…”

Husband who didn’t want to create trouble for himself by arguing more, he readily agreed..and asked me to finalize on the location

Finalized a place, wanted to have a five star relaxation..

2 night stay and get one night stay free…

I thought, for the amount they are charging 1year ration should be given for free…

Anyway looked, what else is free, ‘breakfast is free’ i mean complementary…little satisfaction..

The best thing about software industry is, it will never allow you to develop superiority complex….

On the salary day we feel we are super rich and after paying EMI and other bills by 10th day we will be calculating how to manage till the month end…

Ok back to relaxation..

Next, went and bought new cloths for all of us, but while buying new night wears husband asked me “Other cloths are still understandable why r u buying night wears also..”

I said, “room service people may come at anytime…!!”(Five star resort, what will room service people think!)

Started packing, everything new, from bags to cloths to toothbrush…

Another doubt from husband…”why r u taking those goggles, u won’t be able to see the birds and animals on safari if u wear them… ” :O

i said, “it is ok we haven’t used it, at least for photos we can use it…” 😀

ok finally we reached the place, wow! what a welcome, and such a beautiful place…

but i didn’t show any excitement, looked super cool, and as if, we are so used to five star treatments!

You should be well dressed always, behave cool and calm, with all the etiquette…being rich is also not very easy 🙁

behaving one is much difccult!!

The cottage was beautiful no doubt, and i said, ‘see there is a welcome kit, that’s why they charge so high for the service they give..’

the welcome kit had, 2banana, 2 apple and 4 chocolates! along with a card mentioning what is charged and what is free for our package

Since we paid so much, went for all the nature walks early in the morning though we wanted to sleep more!!!

(so many nature walks i have had, for free of cost!, but never paid one)

With all these challenges still managing to smile, ordered for a watermelon juice to cool the mind…

500/- for a juice?!, can’t ask them, y is it so costly…(middle class mentality)

I asked them, ‘so from where do u get these melons from, they are very tasty’ 

he said most of the fruits and veg are from villages nearby,directly from the farmers!!

i was thinking u r not even paying the middlemen and charging us so much…

Not questioning the service charge and hundred other charges on the food bill…praised their service and left the place…

Since all the time went worrying about how to utilize the amount we have paid, realised I had not taken any photo..

Took out the goggle, and asked husband to click couple of happy snaps…you know photo worth a thousand words(dollars!😔)

we left the place…

Husband on the way asked, “u didn’t seem to have enjoyed, do u want to stay more?”

I said, no let’s visit our parents, kind of missed them!!

Ps: this was written a few years back. Some are exaggeration ofcourse, like visiting parents every month and all!!. Last year we visited only two times, and we stayed for about 5 months on both the visit s!!.. all thanks to work from home!…  hope reading it brought a smile on your face..