To the college and back

Sunday,
March 29,2010

Ms eM called me early morning telling that she is going to College Station to meet an old friend of ours. The weather being good i was in for the trip, before she even invited.
So Ms eM, S and me set out for another adventure in our Houston chapter.

The drive from Houston to college station is around eighty miles and a good one and three quarter hour drive.

The drive was absolutely beautiful with the spring melody in the air. Flowers were beginning to bloom in blue, violet and orange along the roads and it is one of the most beautiful seasons.The sky in azure speckled with a few white clouds like the beard of an old man danced above.

The lush green landscape with bejewelled flowers beckoned us in a way that we could not resist our selves from pulling over in front of ranches.
We engaged in our narcissistic indulgences clicking away pictures in abandon, not caring for the cars that honked at us,who were amused by our odd fixation. We got some picture perfect models in the form of stallions and mares who posed for our clicks as if they were professionals, and that is all that mattered to us.

I could'nt contain a chuckle seeing the behavioural pattern between the stallions and the mares seperated by a fence, well the pattern is universal and it is a hilarious watch.
It reminded me that we are so damn different, yet so same.

After a few more clicks we sped to our destination and reached our destination by evening. Well i must appreciate the fact that even though we promised Mr. M, our friend that we would reach by lunch we were able to make it by evening. Usually when we plan if we aim to reach our destination by breakfast, the odds are more that we would make it by dinner time. Well who cares about the destination as some one remarked, the journey is all that is important and we thoroughly enjoy our impromptu getaways and detours.

Mr M is one of our good friends and is super cool as a person. After a brief chit chat and armed with Starbucks coffees we were on a for a guided tour of Texas A and M University.
We were informed that the university was the second largest in the US in terms of the campus and it housed around forty five thousand students.

The campus was super cool and we enjoyed the evening stroll across the campus. We went to the library which was so well equipped and had such a charm,i am sure that even a person who is not interested to study would be motivated to take a book and read in this environment.
The labs looked very well equiped and the recreation center was buzzing with energy with every imaginable game being played.
It was unfortunate that we could'nt get into the stadium which was huge and was hosting some event.
However, we did manage to get a few clicks under a tree where there was an interesting folklore. A new bride was posing for pictures under this tree too,probably as part of the folklore.

Mr M and S managed to get a group of uniformed students to pose for a picture with them and it did turn out well.Ms eM and myself gave a miss on this one and chose to rest on a bench.

As we walked across the campus we found different groups of students engaged in various interesting activities. I was particularly impressed with the group of kids playing frisbee with music behind them, they had set up speakers in the open ground and the music was pure amazing.

We then met up with Mr A, a colleague of ours and then went for dinner at Rosie's PHO.We ordered different dishes Japanese,Vietnamese et al. but when it arrived it all looked and tasted almost the same.

After dinner and a souvenir picture, we bid adieu and headed back to Houston. This visit has taken a few years off my age :)

It is half past one midnight, and i better crash now. I wonder what tomorrow has in store.

Another manic monday!