Sea, Sunshine and everything fine...

After deciding and undeciding a million times (yes even after I posted that I AM going) I told my parents about my impromptu plan and was all set to hear "this is stupid, you can’t go like this, where will you stay? It’s so unsafe in goa...blah blah blah", but they surprise me everytime! Dad said fine, just let me know if you need anything in goa and I’ll get in touch with some people. All I could do was stare and then hurriedly pack my bags and get out before they realized what I was actually doing.
But anyways, I came to work and managed to find a place (after a lot of surfing and phone calls) in a family run guest house near anjuna to stay and bus tickets to goa. After that frantic morning I was all set to sleep off my fatigue on the bus, which is what I did.
Woke up the next morning to the beautiful morning sun and the goan villages zooming by and it was one of those truly blissful mornings.
Brr who was near anjuna came and picked me up from the bus stop and took me to Anjuna, and I think somewhere along the bike ride was when I actually fell in love with Goa. I had never been a huge fan of the place and always thought that there were better places to go to, but was I wrong or what! Those lovely palms swaying in the morning breeze, bikes zooming past on the small village roads, and quaint little huts and houses lining the streets how can you not like the place.
The guesthouse was like icing on the cake and was exactly what I was looking for. A nice relaxing atmosphere to chill. I was told my roommate was a guy from England was he was sleeping and the others hadn't moved out yet. So me and Brr dumped my luggage there and head off to have some breakfast and explore. I must say I was impressed with the variety and quality of food you get in goa, but I guess that comes from catering mostly to foreign tourists.
We went to Vagator beach and I saw the place where Dil chahata hai was shot and mainly went for a long ride around the area - ME LIKEY!!
After a nice long nap I was all set to discover anjuna beach by myself. Oh I should mention that I briefly caught a glimpse of my roommate when he was on his way out and all I can say is cuuuteee! Anyways, I walked to anjuna beach only to find there wasn't really a beach there, just lots of rocks and small patch of sand. Beautiful nonetheless. I spent some time strolling around the area and trying to be bullied into buying some really cool but super expensive nick-knacks. What amazed me there was the enthusiasm of the locals there, no matter how much you ignored them, they kept badgering you over and over and over in that amazingly accented English (which would easily get them jobs in any American call center btw).
I settled down in this place called Sunshine cafe, which had outdoor tables in small balconies facing the sea. After a couple hours, few beers and a watching a glorious sunset I was thoroughly relaxed and a little tipsy. I had always enjoyed spending time by myself and this just reminded me how much I had missed out on alone quality time recently.
Went back to the hotel, and found my roommate sitting in the veranda outside our room. So figured this was a good time as any to get to know him and thankfully we hit it off immediately. It was great to get to know other people and hanging out with them. I hadn't realized it before but it was something I had missed since I moved to India. We here are either skeptical about 'foreigners' or so much in awe of them that we don’t really open up and try to get to know them. It was a very interesting evening and we made plans to go sight seeing in goa the next day. James (that’s his name btw, since I don’t think he'll be reading this or will mind if I do use his real name) had rented an Activa (so adorable) so we were all excited about hitting the goan beaches the next day.

Ok sorry, but this is getting rather long so I am going to break it into two parts. Part 2 coming up very soon...stay tuned. :)

Better get some work done since I have a zillion things to do.