This year I had decided to spend my 22nd birthday with my college pals as it was our last year and who knows where we would be in the coming years, when it would be even difficult to speak to one another once in a week. So my friends organized a surprise trip for me to Alibaug a place on the outskirts of Mumbai with beautiful beaches.
We left a day before 28th catching a boat from the Gateway to the beautiful beaches of Alibaug. After 1 and a half hour of boat and bus ride we finally landed at the place at night and booked a room in which all of us could stay. After having a quick dinner we headed for the beach with my birthday cake. What a night it was all of us got down to the beach at 11pm in the leg tickling waters of the silent beach. Then started the long solitude walk along the beach in which I covered like 3 kms all alone in the darkness, it was so peaceful. As the clock struck 12 we cut the cake at the beach, I would say one of the unique ways of celebrating birthday is to cut the cake on the beach side at 12 something I will remember for all my birthday’s to come. The cake was so damn hard that even after attempting to paste it on my face the stubborn cake refused to break and after throwing it at the dogs it refused to be eaten by them. The night that followed was more entertaining I got some of the most prized gifts. The rascals gifted me a Ferrari Enzo Scale model and an assembly kit of Ferrari F430 along with an awesome Batman T-Shirt. The sight of the Ferrari made my heart pound more aggressively than ever, like a boy who likes a girl real bad and she accepts his proposal. After that followed a game of the legendary dumb shereds which had to be halted due to the electricity being disconnected. Then followed another couple of hours chit chatting and fighting the mosquitoes which finally led us to sleep at 5 am on my birthday.
We woke up within 4 hours since we had slept and headed off towards the beach and then followed the enjoyment of a life time for me. From 11 to 4 we were in the water lazing around playing antakshari, doing anything just about anything in the water. It was so much fun, I cant remember the last time I had such a blast during my birthday I seriously cant. And as the two days we all were with each other and almost disconnected from the outside world majority of my group mates love life went for a toss, maximum due to insecurity of the other person and it was so much fun. To be precise it was a “LOVE CHANGING” trip for all except me. We will cherish every moment of it the games, the truth and dare, harshad’s sleeping secret (which we have discovered by the way) and the fun of staying together for 2 nights and a day.
This birthday will be hard to forget, I realized when we all broke up to go home how much I started missing my friends and how much I loved them. That day even a dozen Ferrari’s couldn’t match the happiness that I had by being with them. It was a birthday I will cherish, in nature’s lap not attending unwanted calls being with college mates…………well that’s something………a moment to remember always!!!
