Hey there

Have been rocking in Seattle so far ..... I went hiking to Snoqualmie falls. Why it was hard is bcoz of this ..I am not a hiker, I am not a regular gym goer, I am not even one for routine work-outs ...... but if you had been to the falls , you would have wished you were into all this. Just to escape the immense tiredness and body-aches in more than a zillion places the next day. It was not a tough hike... slippery rocks were the only danger, and you did make a few trips and falls before you could actually reach the caves near the falls....... But once you reached there you could take enough snaps, from all angles of the falls to show where you had been. :)

Later in the day, the Amazonian interns group - Shweta, Sandhya, (Namita- did not join us in the evening), Natalie, Shashank, Jack, Jason, Brendan, Neil,Jake and me .... a group of eleven hogged on Mexican food at Mama's Kitchen, and then spilled into the movie theatre for Cars. It was not in the same humour league as Shrek 2, but you should see it to see how they have put characters into cars. And the amazing job they have done of it.

Then I ended up watching Ankhen, the one with aftab, amisha and esha deol and is basically about esha being a manic depressive. There is this book , Three men in a boat and this is not my first allusion to it, where the main character ends up reading a book on self-remedies and feels that he has every disease in the book . (Try it sometime - I am sure you will too :)) Well that was quite my case with the movie.... I do not want to end up being manic depressive ....... so I think the best option will be to stay happy. :) So for all the people I have been complaining cribbing to....I hope you have seen the last of that.

So how is Seattle! well with water everywhere, its quite a difference from Tucson. Sunlight shimmering on the bay.... ships and ferries leaving every hour, Oh did I forget to mention, I did not have to move out of the apartment after all so I get to enjoy the view everyday while I am in Seattle. But somehow mountains will always be where my heart is. When you see the overhanging branches on the mud trails, green ferns all around ....such a shade of green which the freshest showers of rain could only have painted in, the crunch of sneakers on the moist mud and twigs strewn about ....... the crooked, curving roads........ wow...could anything be more inviting. That was what is Snoqualmie, Ooty, Kodai ...Darjeeling and any hillstation you can remember.