Virginia City and Butte

With my thesis hardly having any progress but another week passing like always, I was excited as usual about the weekend. Weekends do really make me feel happy for some reason. But unlike the usual weekends, I wanted to do something much better than just watching a movie. A friend's call invite for Friday night's dinner to have Poori Chole at her home was probably the ideal beginning to the weekend. It couldn't have started better. All dressed up and prepared to have fun we first finished a rather early dinner. Renting a car and planning to goto Chico hotsprings was our initial plan. But it so seemed a little late to start for Chico as they close around midnight. Having rented the car before thinking where to go seems to always click well because we ultimately decide to go out somewhere not wanting the renting to go waste. After a few minutes of waiting for another friend to join and an hour of discussion, we decided to leave for Virginia City, Montana. Its supposed to be a haunted city. Sounded fun to me. Started around midnight, drove for two hours and reached the city. It was pitch dark with not a soul to be found on the road at 2:00 am. Our plans to find a motel thereby dimnished and some scared souls in our vehicle ordered us to get out of the city. We infact were driving around that place for half an hour before we chose to drive back in the direction we came until we found a motel. We did and I checked in first. Then showed some inborn Indian nature and allowed the other guys in the car to sneak in secretively(obviously illegal it was). We were five friends in a single room. After some fun in the night, we all went to bed. Checked out of the hotel the next day at 11:00 am. Started off to Virginia city and the scenic drive was great. We had no idea until then what we had missed the previous night when we drove into the haunted city. After some shopping, wandering and real fun at this place we started to Butte. Thanks to the American guys who knew the shortcuts and told us the way. This was another good drive. We randomly pulled over at a place where it had recently snowed and the snow was fresh to play with and so we did. After that short break of stoning each other with snow balls and capturing some memories on my camera we set off to Butte to complete our journey. We first drove around the city which was a little bigger and seemed more developed than Bozeman. We again decided to have an early dinner at a Chinese restaurant in the Mall and ended up listening to Indian music while eating. That was fun again. Now came the exciting part which was nothing other than me driving back to Bozeman. Exciting it was to me but scary for the others. A few mistakes to start off with freaked the guys with me. Just the ideal start..hehehe.
With some guidance and confidence from a friend navigating, I somehow came over my nervousness and drove till Bozeman and were in right time to return the rental vehicle. Oh!!! Did I forget to mention?? The rental vehicle was an SUV. Ain't that cool?? The short one day trip taught me more things than just driving in the interstate. It made me learn how wrong I could judge some person. Anyways, I should call the whole trip a successful and fun trip more because of the spontaneous and instinct based decisions that clicked really well for us. Obviously I was and am excited. Hoping again for the next weekend to come soon. Hoping the assignment and exam due this week will go fine. I shall as always hope for the best things and here I blog..