A TRIP TO CHENNAI
Travelling is one of the best experience that I always want to have in life. Travelling helps us to understand the world deeper and better. For me, it doesn't matter whether it is about travelling abroad or within a country. It just makes me happy and stress-free always. The best experience that I had ever in my life till now is going to South Korea, Seoul though I lived there for three years. But when I used to come to India for a visit, I just loved those packings, airport formalities etc. I usually travel for every 2-3 months in within India for different proposes. By this, you could be thinking that my family and I might be perfect in travelling and but we are not at all. Our driver used to come 1 hour late from the given time, and if we ask the latter about the reason he would say you usually get late, so that's why he came late. This was the most embarrassing situation that we would have.
The last trip that I went to is Chennai, in October, one of the adventurous and fascinating journey that I had within India. My dad was called for an international conference in IIT Madras, and this time they invited with family, so we also joined. At first, we were not able to participate because of some issue, but before a week, we were set to come. As a result, our bookings were late; thus we had to pay double of the average cost. As general, this time also the driver came late with the same reason though we were ready a 30 mins before for the first time to Delhi Indra Gandhi International Airport. My parents got tensed whether we would go within time. By god's grace, we were within time, but the real stress started no. I and my brother's id cards were not found. We went to the waiting hall and zipped down the luggage...all 3.
Everyone was starring at us as if we have gone mad because my parents started scolding us for being so reckless. Then an idea came, papa called a student of his, and told him to send a pic of our id cards so that we can enter the airport. In no time, he went to our home as he had the key and send those pics to papa's phone. After entering, we enrolled ourself to a wrong luggage check-in, but we noticed after 5 mins that we changed ourself to another one. Later, we joined the security check/self-check-in queue. It had a very long line, and we had just 5 mins to do that because it closes 25 mins before departure. By requesting a police officer, we were allowed to go first.
After completing, we were enjoying the shops kept inside in the airport then suddenly we heard our names called out to board our respected flight as we were late. We just run as fast as we could to the Gate no.28 - B and boarded our plane. Everyone was looking at as if flight got late just because of us though there were many other passengers with us...
We reached Chennai within two and a half hours. There we collected our luggage and called a respected driver who was supposed to take us to the hotel. When we called him, he said that we were supposed to come after 2 hours. Later confusion got cleared, and he came to pick us. When we went outside the arrival airport, we were welcomed very warmly by giving two pretty flower bouquets. Everybody was gazing at us like we were VIPs...Then onwards we were indeed treated like VIPs and tended Red Carpet service everywhere. I was just thoroughly astonished by this conduct.
We came to the 5-star hotel, Westin and checked in our room. I just got surprised to see the place. It was a classic suite room having a huge bathtub, a kitchen, two bedrooms and a big living room with a shade of golden light throughout. The next day, at breakfast, we met the director of IITM. The dining hall was big than our house. There were more than 50 dishes, but the sad thing was that I was able to eat just 4-5 servings. My mom said that if you and your brother also study hard like papa and achieve success in life, we would also be treated even better than this everywhere...After having breakfast, all the other families and we gathered near a pinkish gold sofa, and all the professors went to the conference. We, with all the others, went to Mahabalipuram. It is a type of museum.
From there we went to a planetarium and had lunch in the Italian Pizza Restaurant. We came back to hotel to take rest by 4 pm. By 6 pm papa and all other professors from all over the world came to the hotel from the conference. By 7 pm we went to cruise dinner party in the Bay of Bengal water. Till 11 pm we were in our hotel room. The next day by 10 am after having breakfast we, including all professors, went to visit Marine World. From there we all went to Chennai Islands. There we played at the beach a lot and had dinner in a nearby hotel. In the meantime, my father got a call that our flight had changed and now we were supposed to board an international trip for which we had to check in 3 hours early than the departure time. But papa denied for the change. By late night, we were at the hotel.
Further morning, we went to Chennai International Airport 2 hours before the departures time. We were not allowed to enter because as we were not on time. After a small dispute, airport people permitted us. From there we came peacefully to Indra Gandhi International Airport, Delhi and back to Roorkee.