visit to Thiruvannamalai

we are planning for a long time to visit thiruvannamalai,but due to some reason or other it got delayed ,finally we made it on last friday..
yes friday is Good friday and i applied for an optional holiday in my office.
all of sudden around 9.30am we (myself and my hubby) thought why dont we go to temple today.?
Its for tonsuring aswath's head.

My husband went for booking the tickets as we really dont believe in stepping out of home with out reservation.he called me around 10.00am from the booking counter as one ksrtc bus is available at 1.00pm and rest of the buses were starting after 9.00pm.Intially i had a hesitation how can i do the packing in 2 hrs ,but still i said yes , go ahead and do the booking.

In the mean time i started packing ,first its aswath....staring from cerelac,NAN,his diapers,dresses,flask with hot water and the list goes on and on.

since its a saturday we had brunch and left home at 11.15 and took an auto .reached majestic safely.
my husband bought a one litre water bottle and my favourite tamil magazine aval vikatan. aswath was watching here and there ,and he was totally enjoying the horn sound of buses and people moving here and there.

we spotted our ksrtc bus and it started sharp at 1.00 pm,even though its half filled.i packed a box full of rice for asu's lunch at home.

now the fight started between asu and me,he dont want to eat and only thing he wanted to do peeping his head outside of window although its very dangerous .for us its dangerous and for him its a sort of enjoyment.

Finally we decided not to force him,bcoz if we force him our dresses will get spoiled ,what else Vomit...
i took my aval and started reading and after an 5 hrs journey we reached thiruvannamalai.
we checked in Hotel arunachala for A/C double room.

Then once again we started feeding aswath ,thank god the we got all local channels and ads were coming every now and then,bcoz asu will eat only on seeing ads.

Then around 7.30pm we just walked around the temple and bought some ballons and cassettes .
came back and had dinner.slept well.

Next day morning we had coffee and went for tonsuring his head.First my husband got his tonsuring get done,then its asu.
he cried a lot and we both are not able to control him,finally we got him a car which is his favourite toy and he started playing with that.

we came to room and i gave bath to him,and dressed him and started feeding him with idly which we ordered.as usual he didnt eat idliies then once again with the help of sun tv ad i gave him some ceralac to eat.in the mean time my husband came out finishing his bath.
Its my turn ....

The we got dressed up properley and went to restaurent to have breakfast,but all of a sudden we decided not to have breakfast and we both had some fresh juice.

we went inside the temple with archana items which we bought in the petty shops,first we had the darshan of ambigai and then sundareshwarar.
for sundrashwarar darshan we were standing in the Q for 15 minutes,and we were allowed to sit in the area before karpagraham for 5-6 minutes and we had a good darshanam of the arunachaleshwarar.

The darshan was really good and we came outside and brought some murrukkus and adiraasm and came back to hotel.

we dont feel like eating any heavy lunch ,so i ordered for curd rice ,my husband ordered for
Bissibelabath(ellam namba sambar sadam than) but unfortunately he got Biriyani:-)
still he had that.

we checked out at 3.00pm we decided to take a bus before 4.00 pm as its a 5 hrs journey to banaglore.

we got a Tamilnadu state bus at 3.45 and my husband took 3 tickets instead of two as we know we need some extra space for aswath .Even if we book the entire bus also it will not be enough for him....
some how we reached bangalore watching gilli and thalaphti which they screened .

we enjoyed the trip on the whole and it was quite memorable.