Weekend ( Oct 14th - 15th)
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So over the weekend, I just visited both major and minor places. So, on saturday a lot of bangalore folks enthusiastically (???) went to a few places in and around napa valley. Napa valley is one of the world famous vineyards. So u get to taste a different varieties of wines here. Apart from that, u can in general get to see a very beautiful and scenic place ( chk photos ).

We didnt directly go to napa valley. We also visited a couple of other tourist attractions. The first one was petrified forest. Here, we get to see some trees turned into stones. This happened mainly because of a volcano and the effect of its lava. The sicilon is supposed to have replaced the plant cell. It looks pretty good on the whole. I also saw lot of red wood trees. The stem and the branches were brownish red in color. It was small loop of such remains, and some models of some bears and other etc etc stuff. Not of major interest though. This place was visited by R.L.Stevenson, and there is a land mark here attributed to his name. Not worth it for 6$ entry ticket, but ok.. different experience. Got to see some stuffs, which i had never seen before. I wouldnt advise anybody to go and visit this place.. It is just one of the tourist place which u visit if you r going to some other place and this is along its way. Its not a major place, to go and visit.

And then, we went to a place called OLD FAITHFUL GEYER. Mother nature has been giving them 8$ per person for seeing an offshot of warm water once in every 40 minutes. (Check photos). Water raises to some serious heights.. some of the photos have captured it!! Its too good to believe that it is natural. I was not there to check the authenticity of the place, I was thr just to take some pics and enjoy the scenic beauty of nature. The place has some cool backgrounds. Apart from that, just to keep the tourists interesting, they had a variety of goat called fainting goats.. these goats just faint if they get scared.. They dont look any different though, and ofcourse we didnt want to see them faint. There were some lamas.. and some time pass stuffs.. Ok spot, similar to the previous one. Not a must go, given the choice between the two, I would advise you to choose the place depending on whether u have a cam or not. This place has some really good PHOTO POINTS...

And then we headed towards, napa valley. Thanks to my extreme interests in taking a photos, I asked my colleague to stop the car in the middle of the highway and took a photo at an extremly beautiful spot!! Chk that out! Its really cool.. then it was more and more beautiful stops coming... Visited a place called PEJU WINEYARD. It charged 7$ for 5 wine tastings. And had some cool types of wine bottles and wine glasses. Boring inside the building.. Outside .. just went to the vineyard.. walked across the grape plants.. took photos.. some of the photos are amazing.. and then we headed back.. Now the group was split into 5 each and one half went to treasure island and other went back to home coz .. satish who planned this trip had to meet his friend for dinner. So we went to treasure island.

And you knw what, words cant describe this place. I have taken some photos with the help of bharath! thanks to him, he was able to use the complete potential of my camera and take some amazing snaps!! Its looked like some of the posters.. check out the last few snaps.. they look like posters.. chk out.!! I was extremely happy for going to this place...

then on sunday, chitappa picked me up.. i visited his house.. spent some time with ganesh little .. ate good lunch.. i also went out for shopping. i visited walmart, walgreens and others. chitappa was extremely happy on seeing my camera and he told that it was very good buy. We had some camera specific discussions. I also bought a rechargable battery.. and then had a typical afternoon.. just chking mail.. had some fun.. and now i am heading back.. i think i will be going for some bhajans.. have dinner there and then go back to my room at park place!! tomo is monday.. and back to same routine...
catch u later