The Grand Wedding!

We are back after attending the Prince of Pattambi's wedding reception in the capital of his kingdom.

Trips, Pooja and I left from home by around 12.30 PM on Saturday afternoon. We drove drove and reached Pattambi at 11 PM that night. The Prince was in the hotel where we were staying. Met him for a very brief period and just damar crashed.

The next morning at around 10 AM Trips came and woke us up saying the reception had been advanced and it was in the afternoon itself. So we got up and started getting ready at a good pace.

When I was in the bathroom, I heard a loud orchestra of conch shells and drum beating in traditional kerala style. That was the arrival of the Prince to the stage. We got ready and went to the hall. The Prince and the new Princess Sharanya were there attired in suit-boot and saree
respectively.

There was an elephant parked outside the hall decorated in gold the kinds i've seen in mysore dashera functions. So we suspect he either rode in to the hall on that or was going to leave on that !!

The praja that attended were from far away lands and places. The whole of Pattambi was definitely there. So were people like Ankur who had flown in from Jammu for the occasion.

We had a full scale mallu lunch. After the lunch we were so stuffed - we wanted to take a walk in Pattambi. So we asked people around there whether there was anything to see in Pattambi. One uncle's jaw dropped and said you have already seen whatever is there to see in Pattambi. We decided that it was a stupid idea and so left Pattambi by around 1.30 PM. Drove through the greenary of Kerala's Palakkad district.

Some comments on the drive part :

- The contrast in the green levels of Kerala and TN were sucha contrast. The moment you cross the border, the trees are gone! The thick lush greenary is replaced by shrubbery all around!!

- Had fun driving on the highways with zebra-crossings ;) .. Not a joke!!

- The four lane highway from Krishnagiri onwards is cool. But the people driving on them are as stupid as they were!! Slow trucks spewing smoke and taking a good 1/2 hour to overtake the guy in front and thus causing a convoy of vehicles to be formed behind!

- On the return trip, we stopped at Tiruppur - the T-shift capital of India, Did some cool shopping of T-shirts that were meant to become Banana Republic and Sears branded - for 70-80 Ruppes :))) .. that was really worth it!

We have a photo taken at the reception. Will upload it tomorrow.