Monday, August 10, 2009

Cape Cod.. the unplanned but an awesome trip

I was busy (yeah literally busy) watching Orphan on my laptop. I wanted to watch this movie from the time I saw the trailer in the theatres. I some how have a fetish for the horror movies.. the bhoot ke pichure... :D.. And my phone rings... Movie pause... It is my friend, who had just in the morning passed his driving test and was eager to enjoy his new found freedom. " I am at the car agency.. this fellow is giving me all kinds of deals.. tell me fast which car do u guys want".. I am like hold on dude, whats going on.. He is like lets go for a drive somewhere.. I said but where.. Dont worry man we will plan something after I get home.. I fall into a category who will set off on a trip at the slightest cue.. so this temptation was sufficient for me. We had to convince another friend and after much GD we finally agreed on hiring the car. Now where to go.. Multiple choices...
Cape Cod which is a 3 hour drive, Lake George in New York, where would stay for the night and go to Six flags the next day... Finally it was decided to go to Cape Cod which is place in Massachusets with many beaches... Wrote down the directions and off we were

The drive started smoothly, but not for a long time.. After about an hour or so we got caught up in the traffic.. For some unknown reasons the freeway to Cape Cod is by no means free.. on weekends.,.. Awesome traffic.. bumper to bumper... That took most of our time... And then we heard a grumbling sound... It came from our stomachs pleading for atleast a Mac D burger.. which is the by the way Garibon ka khana now... :D So the next exit and we got into a Mac D, burger in our stomachs and back on our way.. The break worked like magic.. as once we resumed on the high way the traffic was pretty much smooth.. and away we went on our merry way..

On the way we were joined by a family driving in their American tumtum (please visit my orkut profile for pics of Cape Cod and You will understand the tumtum) which was a old model convertible.. They were all cosily stuffed in the car and our dear uncle, was driving as if he was a Schumi in Ferrari. Zigzag, broom and he drove siftly moving between cars.. We were wondering whether the car door would come off, the mirror would fall down... Nothing of that sort... Old is Gold was true...

Our aim was to reach one of the beaches and catch the sunset, but we wanted to go to the farthest point of Cape Cod, the last point in that direction before the huge mass of ocean.... We ignored the smell of the lobsters coming from the many restaurants as we neared Cape Cod, but a resolution in mind that today we are gonna try the lobster, while coming back... The sun was slowly reclining back in the horizon and preparing to say hello to the other part of the world. From bright shining yellow, to orange and sinking fast.. and we finally made it to the beach before it turned red and kissed the ocean in front of us...

The beach was amazing... people had come in for camping on the beach... There were camp fires on the beach.. We have heard of beach weddings.. Well we actually got to see one.... Two beautiful brides... :D It was a small wedding, but it was beautiful... The beauty of the place was amazing. On one side the sun was diving and the other side the moon was rising up.. Amazing... As it grew darker, the camp fires started glowing brightly and we could just see the silhoutees of people around it... I am going to do camping on a beach for sure.. probably next summer.... And then the very familiar sound of mosquitoes on our head indicated that it was time to say , ye bye to the beach...

Now time to fulfill the promise.. We stopped at a restaurant named Moby Dick for eating a lobster.. Well it is quite a costly item, so we decided to best share it and just have a taste of the lobster than to make it our dinner... I am glad we did it... The lobster arrived in its majestic glory all set in the plate.. with butter.. it was quite big... Asked the waitress, how to eat it as we had no clue where to start... She said she started of with the tail moved on to the claws and then something something and she did not like the middle stomach portion and all.... We had got a clamp like thing to break open the claws of the lobster.. I had high expectations, but one bite and phusssssssssssssssssss... it was just a boiled mass of "maas"... no meeth. mirchi... Somehow we started our journey as the waitress had described, toiled through the tail, forced our way through the claws and by the time I ripped open the stomach, we just could go no more... My advice, dont even think of eating the stomach, even if you dare to try a lobster. To our amazement there was chinese family who was devoring lobster after lobster with quite ease... We considered giving ours to them... :D.. Our hands were smelling of lobster. We order a cake to change the taste and we resumed back..

Reached late night into boston to the familiar scenes of girls coming out of pubs.. Early morning we were supposed to drive to six flags.. but alas that trip never did happen.. But no regrets...
Cape Cod was amazing... the nature is awesome...

2 comments:

  1. nice yaar
    very good structure....
    thought i was there the whole tym listening to desc...
    btw if u really want good lobsters go to saffron spice in mumbai....
    they open it up too...

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