Summer vacations!!!!

We three the "Troublesome Trio" had the best childhood days anybody could have dreamed of. Onam, Christmas and summer breaks were eagerly looked forward to.........the first reason being no classes and second being loads of fun and play in the colony. The Onam vacation was filled with days full of games.........some time putting up floral carpets in one of our houses. Christmas was dedicated to the choir practices for X'mas and New Year mass...hence mainly in the church and the rest of the time practicing these song so the X'mas vacation was dedicated to these.

The long lazy summer breaks were ones eagerly looked forward to.... getting up early so that we could play shuttle before it became too sunny......visiting the houses in the colony after that ...... climbing walls and mango trees ....... plucking the unripe mangoes and having them with salt on the terraces.... ripen mangoes when they were available. Lunch’s in one of the houses in the colony........cycling, small picnics in places near our colony....... pickle tasting sessions(Neets mom used to put delicious pickles and we saw to it that they did not last more a day or two) birthdays, evening get together .....Oh those carefree days when the only tension was when will we be called back home :)

There used to be lazy days as well when we used to end up sitting in one of our homes talking nineteen to a dozen and emptying the kitchen of the home we ended up being......

I still remember one of the vacation not long after we shifted into the colony all the kids in the colony were bored and hence came up with an idea of helping the aunties and uncles in the colony...... we planned to get the daily grocery what they required every day from the nearby supermarket... of course we expected a fees of Rs2 (cheap nah but think of it divided between like 5 of us) for every delivery made... the sweet uncles and aunties that they are they used to give us a daily order of milk and bread just to humor us... we even had this initiative named 'We Help'..... we who were lazy when our mom used to ask us to go for errands were ready to get grocery for the whole of the colony.....remembering those days brings a smile on my face ... what all we end up doing when we are kids.....

These vacations hold nostalgic memories of both happiness and sadness.......these are memories which are treasured in my heart and bring back a smile whenever remembered fondly.