Trip to Madison, WI

Hmmmm Hmmm
The weekend which went by was a long weekend and i drove to madison,
Wisconsin and met parsa, Shyam and J Venkatesh (J).

Friday July 2nd - Saturday July 3rd
I started from Lexington, KY at 6.30pm on friday. i dropped my friend
off in Indianapolis, IN at around 9.30pm(200 miles)...ate some dinner
there then drove to chicago (3 hours drive - 200 miles). reached
chicago at 2.30 am, met paru, ate her awesome food (Vegetable soup,
sambar, potato curry, chips, lime rice. cheese cake, chocolate
brownies and ferroro rocher for dessert!)

Then me and paru started to madison at around 4.45am and we reached
madison at 7.30 am (200 miles). Crashed in the bed...woke up at 12pm
types. Parsa had made channa and so had chappathi channa...left to
gurnee at around 3pm. Gurnee mills is a very big outlet mall in the
US...its abt 2 hours from madison...Hanged out in gurnee till about
7.30pm then went back to madison to see the july 4th
Fireworks...unfortunately it got cancelled due to the rain so we went
for spiderman 2 instead....totally hilarious movie....they must remake
it in tamil with rajnikanth and it will be a runaway hit! got back
home and went to sleep.

Sunday July 4th
got up late...went to the lake. we got some coffee and brownies and
were sitting by the lake and having them looking at the ducks. god
that was soo good...very calming! then just went around campus..went
to capitol building. the campus is bounded on three sides by lakes. so
the whole day we were just walking
around campus. then drove through the arboretum and then finally ate
dinner in a greek restraunt. Food was very ordinary...what ever i
ordered...tasted like hot breads puff filled with spinach! anyways
then just went back to parsa's house and took some more snaps. then we
left madison at around 12.30am and
reached chicago at 3am. went to sleep.

Monday July 5th
Got up at 12pm. took bath and went had some coffee in a nearby place
and left to meet my uncle who stays in the suburbs of chicago. stayed
there till 5pm and left chicago at 5pm. came to Indianapolis at around
8.30pm...ate dinner.and left indianapolis and arrived here in
lexington at 2am.
so that was pretty much what i did....was an awesome trip....only
thing like any other long weekend...it just wasnt long enough!
* drove some 1400 miles this weekend...aint it awesome?

* Must have spent around $150..not sure yet

* got myself a ralph lauren tshirt and trousers at gurnee....i guess the first
branded clothing i bought in the US

* Credit card bills....wonder how i am gonna pay them back...makes me think
"what would a graduate student do without credit cards??"
(Statement Copyright:Parvathi Srinivasan)

* I realized its soo easy to move around with a McNally US atlas...while
coming back from Madison i traced my route in the map and came here..didnt get lost
woow map reading i guess is my new found passion...its pretty cool!

* This trip i realized an important thing...when you go out with your college friends
do not try to see places....just sit beside a lake or beneath a tree and talk about
the good old days...the mistake i did last time when i went to chicago...i learnt
it the hard way...whaddya say paru?? This trip was awesome fun...i wanna do it
again and again and again!!

* One thing i still havent figured out yet is the passion women have to keep their
bathrooms clean!!!! can somebody explain that to me???? i know a girl who spent 50
bucks on bathroom accessories like floor mats etc.??????