Saturday evening @ palace hotel

For the Saturday evening meeting with school friends, for a change my suggestion for bungee jumping at palace grounds was actually taken – we did go there… Ok just kidding… but we did go near palace grounds atleast – to a really neat place Palace Hotel.

Sunil, Muralidhar and myself met at 11th cross and then drove over to the place in his H U G E Scorpio. We roamed around quite a bit before we found it and went inside. We had to hold on to a table and then drag some chairs ourselves.

It was very peaceful with some cool breeze, we sat on chairs out on the lawn with a small elegant fountain in the center. Though the lawn was mildly illuminated, the night was quite dark in the surroundings – which was quite comfortable and only added to the ambience. The hotel was an old beautiful monument by itself – and as someone had remarked – was definitely one of the last places of its kind in Bangalore. It was the kind of place where nobody was ever in a hurry, least of all the waiters.

Shailesh and Avinash joined us later… and some drinks and gobi manchurian etc later it was almost midnignt. The waiter told us a strange thing – it seems a major family group along with kids too had hogged for over Rs 1000 and had cooly pushed off. No doubt he was quite chargrined (it wasn’t the first time) – he kept saying “how can we not trust even a family group” but he seemed to be pretty cool about it.

Shailesh wanted to have dinner as well but somehow he got vetoed out by the other family man – and so we left for home.