Beach Party

Weighing all options for a week-end bash

Wet Morning: Unseasonal showers took us by surprise

A beach party is in the offing, most likely next weekend. Coinciding with the Diwali festivities, this would be a departure from our routine celebrations in the Garden or at best, in some fancy restaurant nearby.
Moreover, it shall be the first time that members of the Club would be meeting in the evening over tea and snacks – unlike our regular breakfast bashes in the morning.
The venue and date has been tentatively fixed for Juhu Beach on October 27, Sunday. A final decision will however, be taken in the next couple of days after arriving at a broad consensus among members.
The idea of “doing something different” on Diwali came up this morning when several options like China Garden, Tiwary’s and Kailash Parbat were discussed. These were found to be either ‘unaffordable’ (given our budgetary constraints) or else, ‘unpalatable’ insofar as the food on offer is concerned.
It was generally felt that being an evening get-together, we should no longer be restricted by having to choose from a counted few eating places in our neighborhood that open early in the morning. Basically, we ought to be combining the party with some recreational activity (having music, games, etc.) like a picnic of sorts. Needless to mention, participation in the outing shall be limited to members only.
The only foreseeable dampener to our plans is the freaky weather conditions prevailing at present. The monsoon is supposed to have long left us but even today, we were subjected to a continuous drizzle all morning, effectively forcing us back into the China Hut for the exercises. In fact, we have been having the ‘light showers’ since yesterday and there are no signs of any let up.
Should it continue to rain next week-end, our bhaji by the beach will go for a toss. Let us hope this does not happen.