Trip to Heaven, via Hell

Thanks to the efforts of Ramesh, Srinivas and Co. for arranging a wonderul,
exciting and thrilling Amsterdam trip.It was 7 people , Ramesh ,Selvi, Srinivas , Sushma, Chinna, Tapan and Myself.

I added the word thrilling because of the events went on during our flight from Munich to Amsterdam by KLM Airlines.
Everything was fine when we started from Munich. Just few minutes before landing, it started. There was smoke in the
cabin. It was becoming more and more intense, as time went on. Smoke alarm went on and emergency lights activated. Passengers on board were tensed and there
was no proper explanation form Pilot. It was announced that as soon as we land, we are asked to get out immediately. It was really thrilling and exciting. Most people worried, but truly speaking, I really enjoyed. Later I realize that it was an unusual behavior that I didn't bother a bit about the things went on during the flight. May be I was optimistic, that we almost reached the airport, so if something goes wrong, rescue operations would be so fast. So there was a good chance of survival.

Funny thing about the smoke is , that it was there in the cabin only for few minutes, but it was there in our minds for next two days. Anyway it was good experience, I enjoyed it.But the sad thing is Ramesh got smokophobia.. :)

We spent two days in Holland and the two days we had huge difference in weather conditions. First day we can't walk without jacket, second day we can't walk with jacket. Tulip garden was wonderful, but crowded. It was my first visit to a beach in Europe. It was quite good.There was a big chess board in the park, I played against two kids from Holland and I lost :). They were pretty good, but still I enjoyed the game. It's not the out come of the game, but playing game itself is a pleasure. I realize that after playing that game.

There was some festival going on in the city center. There was an amusement ride, its a big rotating arm with 10 people attached on both ends. It was my long time desire to ride on such things. Now I got a change in Amsterdam, and that too as a physicist, when I see the acceleration is 4.5g , I can't stop my self doing it. It was a trilling experience coming upside down, form the top to bottom with 4.5g acceleration and then suddenly pulled back just before hitting the ground. I had the feeling that my shoos are going to flyaway. I could fell the blood flow in the body while acceleration. It was a fantastic experience. In the beginning I was scared, but later I just closed my eyes and rejoiced. I tried to guess the motion of the arm, by closing my eyes and just feeling the acceleration in my body.

This trip created wonderful memories, which would remain in our minds for long long time.........