Trip to Panchgani (October 9-11, 2010)
The Panchgani Trip was special for 3 reasons - this was Aarush's first holiday trip with family; the family went together for a trip after almost two years and it was Aarush's Aunt's bday. Aarush is not new to traveling, we travel between Pune-Mumbai every two months. We had also made a short trip to Kolhapur to visit the Mahalakshmi temple, when Aarush was 6 months old. Nevertheless, this trip was special because Aarush now understands and reacts to new things, new environment and new people. We planned to leave early. But when u have a baby in the house, everything revolves around his routine. Since outside food is still no-no for Aarush, we prepared his day's meal in the morning. We reached Panchgani at around 2.00 pm. We stayed at Hotel Ravine , located at the Sydney point, facing the Krishna valley. The scene we first saw outside the hotel window was breath-taking. The afternoon sun lit the mist in the environment, the nature took over a