Z Point

At 5, my phone started to buzz. It was freezing outside. Having a sleeping habit like mine, probably I wouldn’t have woken up till 11 at that weather. Surprisingly, Anirudha and Chaitra woke up the very next moment I woke up. The difficult part was to wake up the elders. Dodappa’s watch was 15 minutes slow, so he continued to sleep. By the time we managed to wake up all those guys who were coming, it was 5.20.
The route was pitch-dark and we almost lost our way. Exactly after a few yards, it dawned on me that it was probably the wrong route we were traveling. Having visited Kemmangundi once before, helped. After that, it was just a great experience. We reached the peak to witness the sun rise. Although it was a few moments after sun rise already, the atmosphere up there was refreshing. The wind blew on us with all its might. After a couple of solo-photos, dodappa’s brief laughter session, we decided it was time to get down. Although no one wished to come back, we were compelled to do so. On our way back, the married youngsters – ATK dodappa, dad and Sharathu started to collect to varied flora of the region. That was when we noticed how colorful the region was! With very peculiar plant species and a lot of flowers, the husbands readied the bouquets. Dad’s intentions of collecting the flowers were then clarified. He was, in fact collecting them to decorate the bus we came in. How romantic! Kumara mava then commented that dad was in fact, suggesting that dad meant my mom, who dad said was like a bus. But finally, at the room back in Kemmangundi, the flowers reached the respective wives. Dodappa had even a count of the flowers – 32, as a token for their 32 years of married life. Sudhanva, somehow, had managed to make a bouquet for himself. Guess who he had got that readied for? He’s yet to reveal…