Weekend Hues, Weekday Blues

We had a great weekend.. Good friday began with a journey to Alibaug. The place is called Saswane, a sleepy village 20 kms from the main village of Alibaug. The place was hot, the desert sun charred the entire farmland to reduce it to plots of black ash. As we tried to grapple with the heat, the caretaker informed us that there is power cut everyday for 8 hours. Ahhh!!We spent the first day relaxing, the four hour journey had exhausted us. The men poured their poison in plastic glasses and dived into the so-called pool. (if it could be qualified as one.. as it was as large as a duck pond.) We went for lunch in a popular restaurant called Vaibhav... since it was three in the afternoon, we had to settle for whatever was available. The fish thali was yummy! The lunch and the heat had an effect on me as I contracted a high fever and spent the rest of the afternoon tossing and turning in bed as my cousins and friends dashed off to the nearby Saswane beach.When they returned, they informed us that the beach was nothing but a sea filled with oil slick and black mud... Yuck!The evening was spent in darkness because of the powercut and we amused ourselves by talking about our encounter with ghosts and such other phenomena. The next morning, we woke up and took a walk on the beach and we were greeted by the obnoxious sight of locals relieving themselves on the beach.. Eeks!