Woke up at 10, and ready to go at 11. We had a cup of coffee at the manager's office and went off towards the rainbow falls.
A complete trek of about 6 miles on hilly terrain, not the simplest at all. The rainbow falls were decent, nothing really spectacular for those who have checked those out around Pune (or maybe other places too).
But these falls were different than those back at home. Ok lemme rephrase, the falls were different than those at home due to the weather. It was amazingly cold, and there were huge number of icicles created near the falls. Those icicles looked really beautiful with the sun shimmering on them.
The trek to the falls itself was a good workout. With Ajinkya and I jogging about half of it, it turned out to be a super-workout for us. There were these small one-log bridges across the stream of water that were quite picturesque.
The 6 miles walk surely drained a lot out of us. And the six of us could not wait too long to dig in. We decided to eat at the Charleys that luck had denied us on Day 1. This time we were in good time and รข€˜space' to get a table right away. Everybody ate a lot. And the grandma waitress, with her age showing in her forgetfulness, did make us laugh with her antics.
With the food in, we decided to move on. With the end of Wednesday looming, and the weather uncertain, we had a couple of options going to Mammoth caves chancing it or heading back home. We had a share of pickers too, Ajinkya, Dhaval, Satya and Amit decided to chance it while Amey, Shishir, Pranav and me decided to head back. With about 6 hrs 30 mins of estimated driving time, it was a 'miracle' that we made it back home in about 6 hours. Our watch (or the speedometer) was wrong.
Home at about 2 AM, we were very lucky to get a free parking spot closeby. Was not much that any1 wanted to do but sleep and we did exactly that. Each one, I guess, dreaming about the next Spring break (if at all) and the fun waiting in that time!
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