New Yr celebs spanned ovr 3 days

As thr trdition of our grt college BHU, the second session every year has to start just 4-5 days before New Yr to ensure that no one is able to fully enjoy it :). Well so as usual this yr session started from 26th. Additionally this yr we had been thrown out of our rooms for hols so had to somehow adjust everything back which took 2 days to fully complete. So aftr all this hectic work and to enjoy the weekend and 31st night we were more or less roaming around for 3 days.

30th December: It was Sunday and I was able to somehow convince people to go biking(scooty'ng in my case) to Ramnagar Fort which is around 12-13 kms if we take the Allahabad Highway. But luckily pontoon bridge was operational at that time and it reduced the distance to mere 3-4 kms (out of which more than half km was on pontoon). So we reached the fort well in time even after the initial disaster of theft of wallet and mobile of one of my peers from the hostel room (but he anyhow went even with sullen face realising that his 8000 worth mobile is gone). Also we were short of one vehicle which was later arranged by a guys bro who is our senior. So aftr all the hiccups we finally reached the fort. Now it aint any big fort nor is its museum any that good but with 10 ppl around it was fun. And with the collection of real vintage(but not working) cars and weapons we as sincere CS students(pun intended) observed and compared them with their mordern counterparts(awp,cv,galil,m4a1 etc).
Next we reached a small temple on the top which overlooks river Ganga(this was my third visit to the fort and I still love this place). The view presented is beautiful (as can be seen from the pics in another post).
Next we went for boating who took 150 rs but we rode for only 20-25 mins :(. With 10 ppl on board(ppl like me also) the boat was quite unstable esp as two of the guys were afraid of the river and were quite impatient. But the ride also presented some spectacular pics(yeah yeah i am interested in pics only) which also are posted in another post.
Aftr boating we decided to return via highway to enjoy the ride....it started wonderfully (with traffic police asking for papers). Now no one was carrying the papers...few didnt even had license with them...anyway we produced the required no of license and showed them our identity cards aftr which he let us off without asking for anything(strange na). So we went towards the highway for which we travelled this long road (it was on my insistence) which was made not of coal and tar but of bricks!!!! So we had a real roller coaster ride(esp me on my little Dio) and aftr all this trouble we reached highway only to realise that we were on it only for 2 kms :( again we took a road which was full of potholes but finally reached our hostel. by 6:30 pm.
We though we had had enough for one day(it was tiring) but 2 hours later our most confused batchmate came asking for Pizza Hut. We were so tired that initially even I(am a pizza addict) refused...but pizza is pizza and esp for pizza hut how many times can I refuse? So finally 4 of us went to there at new mall JHV which is 15 kms from our hostel!!! Add it with Varanasi traffic of evening. We finally reached it to find that we are on waiting list for half an hour :( So aftr some snacks from McD we got a table. I ordered my usual pizza(double cheeze with extra toppings of sweet corn, paneer and onion) while the other three guys went for pork(one of the guy used to be vegetarian 2 months back; he still claims he is from heart :))
pizza was good(atleast mine) but bill wasnt....taxes amounted to 200rs!!!!!!!!! hell. As if pizzas werent expensive enough.
this ended our day with no meney left and tired like hell esp with class the next day.

31st December: It was Monday and we had 2 theory classes and one lab. Now the theory classes were real bore(RS & SKS). But due to electricity failure we were let off lab(which in any case isnt a bore). So we were free by 2 pm.
Now bcoz of our good proctor the New Yr fest Euphoria which was scheduled for 31st evening was postponed to 1st evening????? Now where is New Yr celebrated on 1st evening...maybe he was trying to conincide our celebrations with that of west coast of america. Whatever so we were left with no place to really celebrate New Yr. In varanasi there are no clubs or anything. There are parties in Hotels which are either too expensive or only couple entry is allowed(not possible in IT BHU). So I was able to convince some good souls to go to mall which would be atleast better than staying in the hostel. Now I had expected the whole mall burtsting with activity but the scene was different...There was public but nothing except the eating joints were open...which gave it a deserted look. Still atleast we had a good meal (me again pizza). 10 of us had come but 2 of them opted to go out early..and therefore celebrated their new yr in hostel only. For rest of us it was a real bad luck story. There was a DJ in mall premises(a local DJ) and there was a sort of small disc. So around at 11:50 as we completed our food and got the guts to dance they stopped DJ. We had just stepped on the dance floor and exactly at that moment the DJ stopped. Maybe they decided that its better to shut disc before these guys start 'dancing' and scare away the crowds(we are all inexperienced in dancing). Whatever aftr greeting each other we finally went to our hostel where we were let in without any jotting down of names as late-comers etc.

1st Jan: Am online aftr a long time so will be describing abt the 1st Jan trip only through pics...And yes I long to be in pics so most of the pics will have me somewhere.
We went to two falls...donno exact names of anyone of them :)