I WANT TO PACK MY BAGS...

My husband left for a short vacation with his friends today morning. They had actually planned Goa as a ten member gang but this morning they were just three, on a road trip to Yercaud, Salem. I had a winning smile pasted on my face when Goa trip got cancelled. He got the drift of it, for sure. And Yercaud was done on purpose to wipe out that smirk. 

I had gone on four days break to Isha Yoga Centre Coimbatore for doing my advanced programs in yoga, consecutively in 2018 and 2019 April. Those eight days were a total cut-off from my routine. I was not even available on phone with no communication allowed during the program. My hubby had stayed away from work and taken care of our kids. So Yercaud is his claim to freedom. `And maybe I will switch off my phone too', he had announced just before leaving. A bait that I am not going to bite into. 

But happy I am that he gets this short vacation once a year. A friends only trip with no family to drag along. I happily bid him bye. For one day I want to have vacations with my girl friends too.  

My two besties and myself have been dreaming about that day for too long. Their children will pass out school in one year. But my kids being still small and pint-sized, my wait could turn long. 

Only yesterday I saw an ad in FB on girls' only vacation to North East India and spoke eagerly about it to my hubby. But he gave such a gloomy and dreary picture of such trips that I had second thoughts. I remembered my female ex-colleague, who went hopping on a European trip last year, all alone. Including Paris and Budapest. Had I even thought of it, my husband would have scared the shit out of me with the stories of possible terrorist attacks there.

But go I will. With my besties. Maybe we will take my daughter along too. My son can stay back with his father. To start with, we will choose nearby destinations and then take the long roads. And then maybe hop onto a plane and sail over the clouds. Or take a cruise over the blue waters...and maybe one day I will pack the bag and take a trip all alone..