A festival that we will celebrate this evening and a memorable trip…!

Think back on your most memorable road trip.

Hey…

I hope all of you are doing well…!

It’s a Tuesday and the second day of hard-work is upon all of us;

I’m happy for today because on top of being a Tuesday we are going to celebrate a festival called Lohri today;

What is Lohri if you might ask…?

It’s a panjabi festival celebrated to make the end of winter, in a sense as the days start to get longer(I mean the daylight);

It also marks a new year for all of us, and we honor the staple crops like wheat (which is a basic necessity in all of the Indian households) which is sown at the year end and gratitude is expressed to Mother Nature for letting us plant and in return expect a good yield…!

What happens during the actual festival is that we purchase peanuts, popcorns, rewdi, laddu(s), gud patti, and many more things the day before or the same day;

(Well most people don’t purchase it on the same day as the footfall is too much and a lot of time is wasted…)

And we light a bonfire(well not with butane or any fluids that can help us catch fire easily; but with Kapoor(camphor), because it’s a cultural event that happens…!

We use dried up woods that we can buy or take out of our stock and arrange them in the form of a pyramid and using matches we start the fire and only use camphor to bring it to full flame…!

And when that happens we gradually take turns around the fire, usually 7 times while we put the peanuts, popcorns and rewdi in the fire as an offering to the fire G0d and asking for their blessings in our life by keeping us energetic and away from foes all around the year…!

A lot of chatter happened on the festival today;

Well, I’m going to make an upload later this evening capturing all that happens during the festival…!

Coming back to the prompt

Most memorable road trip

It was the year 2021,

And a friend of mine planned a trip up north in the mountains somewhere;

At the end it was me, my sister, my best friend, my best friend’s friend and one of my cousins;

We had such a blast there, it was because all of us were naive and it was one of the first road trips that we did;

We went to Ambala and got a car(with a driver) that drove us to Narkanda, a place that was the most beautiful and that was one of our first trips together and the first time I saw snowfall…!

It was memorable so much so that we invented a drink which we continue to drink the whole trip and still remember to this day…!

We took green apple rum, because that is what we found affordable at that time and we took Mountain Dew;

And we downed drinks after drinks until the bottles were empty, and we also had a bonfire there which gave us warmth from the outside too…!

A trip that still lives in the back of our minds every time we remember it…!

I’ll see you again this evening with upload of the festival…!

To good times

Cheers 🥂

Love Waakiye 🤍