long weekend ..why?.. coz 26th may is holiday in US..memorial day.....lotsa people didn't drive out to anywhere coz of gas prices....one thing about americans is when they go to someplace..they really see everything there thoroughly ...they stay there for a weeks time ...unlike us Indians...we go to a place...hush up quickly and run off to another place...and cover as much as possible within given time.....as for me ...i took the typical indian way of holidaying....!!!..i had to cover Virginia beach where I'd catch up with Sushma ,my cousin and hang around for 2 days ...1st day beach..2nd day williamsburg...why?...theme park...then..travel to New York....now tht was the plan.... 24th early mrng i took a citybus at 130 am...now this was a dicy situation ....miss the bus and i miss the train....coz tht was the last bus....damn....so...after the pub hopping and dinner session on friday nite,mike dropped me home and i quickly packedup and got to my bus stop well in time....i looked like a fool to be standing on the road at 115 am..!! finally i see the bus ..but ...fool of an ass tht driver...he did not see me ....damn fool...i ran behind and banged on the bus to have him stop...bloody arse.....reached the amtrak station....railway station....my train was at 455 ...i had reached at 230...hung around there...now the lobby on this station can easily be confused to the lobby in a luxury hotel.....can't believe it....bong .there was the announcement for my train....now these trains are damn comfy ...easy to confuse with the cabin of an aircraft.....i liked the train...but something unbelievable happened....close to my destination ....the automatic gates at a crossing had broken down..guess wat the train driver does.....unbelievable...he stopped the train before the crossing ..got down....activated the gates .....then moved the train across the crossing ...got down ..opened the gates and then came back and drove us ahead...can u believe that....fukin stupid....at the station, a bus was waiting to take us on a 1 hr ride to virginia beach..my final destinaiton...this is where I'd meet my cousin and her family....sushma and raghu along with their son rishi were to reach there.....same time that i'd reach....i reached soon but waited for 2 hrs till these guys came ....quickly raghu and me jumped into the sea.....had awesome fun..sushma didn't get too deep in the water...she did manage to keep company with rishi......but we had jet skiing and parasailing in mind ..but ...later tht evening it became v cold...so..ditched that idea ...now virginia beach is a city thriving on holiday crowds...so the town council pays talented guys to come and do street shows....various kinds...now there was this duo who had music and were busy flingin balls of fire rythmically....awesome it was to watch them...there were musicians too...well..we had to get out soon...so moved on and drove off to williamsburg where we'd crash in our hotel rooms.....the drive back was awesome ....now ..we all remember the fotographs floating around where there is a bridge across a water body which turns into a tunnel under the water body....well..we drove in that!!!!..awesome it feels....we drive on a real long bridge ...then suddenly we have a tunnel....and whoop...we go into it....then pop up to another smaller bridge...awesome feeling...reached the hotel rooms really tired ..then had some home made food......end of day ...
