The Bachelor’s party….

The second team on the August 2nd weekend was Dheeraj, Anil, Shivraj and Vijendra

Turns out that this is to be Dheeraj’s last outing as a bachelor .. he is getting married the next week

So before we proceed any further, On behalf of Arun, Rakesh and the entire team at Bethel, Let me Wish you a happy and prosperous married life.

The run up to the the day was quite eventful and is the subject of a another post ..

Anyway, Dheeraj had comfirmed to come on the weekend and Dheeraj and the folks left Bangalore on Saturday morning, Dheeraj seemed to be familiar with Coorg and he had said he will be coming to Kutta. Arun received them there and since they wanted to do rafting immediately, they went to the Rafting site directly. We were not able to accommodate them in the batches that were going that day (we had booked them for the next day)

The made their way back to the homestay and proceeded for lunch and then to the trek.

The next day they went for Rafting, they had one of the best Rafting experiences ever, the waters were high and they even managed to flip the raft. Ashok who was their guide lost the paddle and had to go on a futile search for it.

Dheeraj ,Anil, Shivraj and Vijendra thanks for coming, I hope Bethel was the kind of place you were looking for.

Their photo album can be found here

Here they are at the rafting spot..Left to right: Vijendra, Dheeraj, Anil, Rakesh(host) and Shivraj

The flipped raft at the rapids

Google sites

Anyone try Google sites ( http://sites.google.com )? It is a pretty nifty tool to get online, I was able to make the complete replica of our site in about 15 minutes.

It is easy to use , gives some nice templates, I just chose one. For the next sites I am going to build.. this is where I will come to prototype…

Check us out on Google sites

Relative quiet …….

This week we had two teams, Manjunath/Pattabhi and their team (total 8 in number — Manju, Pattabhi, Vishwanath, Shailesh, Ravi, Vinay, Sunil and Avdooth) and Dheeraj, Anil, Vijendra, Shivraj (team of 4)

We were supposed to have Barath and his team of four, but they canceled at the very last minute and went towards Madikeri. Barath was very apologetic for the last minute change of plans — My take..Well it happens!! I just hope the next time they come to Bethel

We had Krishna and his team of ten who had come down for rafting and also Vijay and his wife

Pop quiz..

Does a shareholder proxy battle between the Yahoo board and billionaire investor Icahn impact a nondescript homestay in Coorg ??

Oh yea it does, If you were very observant you would have seen that all images and even the slide show that you see on this blog are from Flickr..a darn good site for photos (I would strongly recommend the site, it is a true Web 2.0 site for photos, the API’s it exposes and features they provide are far far better than the other sites).

Flickr it is owned by Yahoo, all it takes is some guy deciding to do make a change or a cost cutting resulting in reduction in the services levels and .. my website (http://www.bethelestate.com) is impacted !!

I’m already considering alternatives..any suggestions ..?

Did I say 8…

Well did I say Vineeth will have company of 8 people…you forgot the surprise element, the plan was that we would have a group of 8 guests.. instead we had 14 guests turning up..

This was one relaxed group..they had come with a clear purpose.. relax and enjoy. The spent the entire time joking and pulling each others legs and relaxing..they were also a foodie group.. they thoroughly enjoyed our cooking and made the most of it too..

The rains that Coorg is so famous for, have finally arrived, last week Kutta was in the news for the inches and inches of rain it received, Bethel which is up in the hills got even more, you can now see springs coming from the ground right in the estate

Barapole river is now nearing the danger mark, rafting will be one thrilling affair, anyone reading this..head to Coorg and raft NOW. It is going to be an experience you will never forget.