A family picnic transformed into a bachelor party - disaster turned into blessings.

Once you decide to meet your old friends, nothing can stop you and that is what happened with us. It all started with a proposal to have a family picnic, with friends and their families staying nearby. Everyone was excited, but just before one day, couple of friends backed out, and things went south. Even advance was given to the cook and vendors, but they being known, agreed to adjust them later. But we could not control our desire to meet and decided to go ahead and hold a mini bachelor party instead.

The Chausath Yogini Temple was a tantric shrine, dating back to 9th century CE and is a perfect place for our picnic as it's located just 20 kms outside the city, having a rural ambience. It consists of 64 ( Chousathi in our language) female idols (yoginis), most of which are broken. They are believed to be 64 forms of Goddess Durga, representing eternal power, who existed on her own and created everything by will. This kind of temple is rarely found anywhere else.

The area feels pretty blissful with a beautiful large pond outside, adding coolness to the environment. This is how you can experience the difference between the city life and rural life in such a small distance.

Now let's move to the fun part.

Having limited number of people, we decided to have only rice, mutton, salad and our friend purchased the mutton from that rural area only, as he stays near to this venue. In the interest of time, his wife started the cooking at home, and he brought the mutton half cooked. On his way, he saw fresh fish being caught from the river, so picked up a big one.

Being a great organizer ( I can barely do this), he loaded everything in the car with a gas stove to cook here.

Unfortunately he forgot to check the condition of the stove - the way it was burning, he felt it will take couple of days to finish cooking and that is when the fun got bigger.

Our generation won't give up easily, isn't it ? Teamwork in action and we managed to put on a chullah and the excitement doubled, because food was now supposed to taste better. Next time, we will have some firewood instead of this gas stove - initially it was difficult but after adding ghee, it caught up nicely.

Leaving our friend in charge, we went inside the temple and captured some nice memories.

Look what was ready by the time we came back - river fish fried on firewood - mouthwatering and tasty - one can only imagine, if experienced.

For the first time, we tried INDRI - sponsored (forcibly) by one of friend as it was due for his Creta - of course he happily accepted, it always feels great to be a giver among friends.

Next couple of hours were pure fun, away from all the stress - we were so happy to not spoil the entire plan, and enjoy the day to the fullest. Once you plan to meet with friends, there is no stopping.

Imagine how that would taste ?

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Here is a short video capturing these golden moments - these memoirs are valuable than anything else - they will serve as medicine to keep our memory in tact at old age.

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