Wisconsin Dells: Noah's waterpark

Noah's water park at Wisconsin Dells is one more place where I really enjoyed a lot. I had been with 4 other families knowing that water parks, resorts are the places to visit if you are in a group. A good decision!!
This is supposed to be the America's biggest water park. yes it was indeed big!! :)
This had many waterslides, pools and many other attractions!(other than those who came to enjoy there :-D)
The best waterslide(the narrow one) was the one shown below: The Point of no return!

The best coz the angle at which it starts with is almost 90' to the ground. Infact had a funny incident at the top. With all confidence and assuming it to be an easy one, went at the top, But but.. when I sat to slide, my confidence was really shaken. I infact came aside to pull my level back. In the mean time, I saw a couple coming at the top, seemed to a married couple and around 45 years of age! yeah yeah.. they both came and sat on the slides. The lady gave a count 3..2..1 and thats it, both were at the end of the waterslide in the next moment. They were great!!

What best can I see to boost my morale :)
The next minute even I was at the end of waterslide after a successful act!
Check the video for better feel of it!

St.Louis: The Gateway Arch

(The above photo is not doing justice to the structure being discussed :-D)

The Gateway arch in St.Louis, Missouri is a wonderful engineering structure. Its 'Wonderful' for the reason being that this was constructed during 1968's time. And during that time, the stainless steel structure was shaped up without any highly sophisticated techniques. Its 630 feets high and at the same time having the foundation of the same dimension.
The best part of it is the train inside this structure which takes to the top of it. At the top, windows are provided to have a look at both the sides of the city. Its a great view from the top.

Bahai temple

Its been a while, didnt post anything new in this blog. So to keep my interest going, I decided to write about the places I visited recently( instead of giving the blog, the 'outdated' tag).

The first place I visited after coming to this new place was the Baha'i temple at Wilmette. This is one among the 7 Bahai temples around the world. Similar to the one in New Delhi, India. This house of worship has a unique and interesting history. And infact the structure too has a well explained reason. I like the quite serenity surrounding these houses of worship.
The visit was during the peak winter, so had a really tough time entering the house in the windy cold weather.. But the efforts were really worth at the end.

Silence

Many of you might have read great quotes about silence and about being silent... those may be really worth noting down.

Ok.. forget about those boring stuff..
Listen now..

Today, I was just sitting idle at home with no better work to do. So started browsing, wanted to read some good articles. So 'Google' came into picture immediately.. So what's the keyword for the search??

Tried 'silence'.. I got many results which took me through boring articles and blogs.

But, something interesting struck me, words of my mom. She always tells me the tale.. I guess the first one in my life I suppose :)

She says, when I landed on this earth, there was a complete silence in the hospital room with doctors and nurses staring at me. As a sign of normal condition, I should have entered this boring earth(.. to make it a very interesting place for others to live) but I was silent, no crying business, no movements.. I guess that was the first shocker I gave to my mom(And an indication of what is next in her life ;-)).

Docs had to literally hold my legs, hold me upside down and pat on my back!! (it must have really hurt me..Idiots!). You know even I am bit stubborn, couldn't give up my silence soon. They continue that annoying thing(and a source of scary thoughts to my mom I guess :-D) for few mins. Realizing that, things will be really serious if I continue my stubborn nature, I gave up!! yeah I finally gave it up... I started crying :-((

I guess that's the only cry anyone would feel happy and relieved listening to!

But.. But.. see that was the best entry one can have.. Don't you think?

I really do think so...;-)

Quarter century!

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were?

Hmm interesting question..
I would say, a little younger than what am I :)

Yesterday was yet another day with umteen thoughts in mind. The MIND, which is ON all the time turning the same pages of thoughts again and again, and sometimes new pages!!
But having said that, I should say, the day was bit different. It was my b'day and thanks to my friends who made it really exciting and interesting.
As expected, I received calls, msgs and mails from the near and dear ones! (Expecting things is really not a wrong deed, and especially from your closer ones.. Not at all :) I really missed everyone this time :(

Coming to the interesting part..
Contrary to what I had assumed, this b'day was made special by my friends who work in my company. Due to an onsite assignment, I am not celebrating my b'day in my country with my friends. But this didn't stop my friends to make me feel good on this day. They cut the cake in my absence and sang the b'day song. And that's not it, they recorded all this along with their messages to me(.. and how can I forget the naughty suggestions/advice) and sent the VIDEO. How else can a person be made to feel special!!!

I take this as my gift and this will remain the best one ever received :)
(The gift which really took great amount of trouble to be packed n delivered;-) .. my frnds know it better :-D)

Thank you friends(Sridhar, Hema, Raghavendra, Anuji, Uday, Mahe, Deepthi and Sandhya), you all really made my day!