A Brief History of the Bags...

A brief history of the bags...Upon our arrival in Chennai late Friday night we loaded everything into the hotel shuttles, checked in, and made a very large pile in the foyer. After a short nap Mr. Robert from FFC arrived on Saturday morning and loaded everything into vans. We thought that would be the end of it. Bags were on their way to FFC where we would all be re-united later that day. What we didn't know was that the bags were taken off the vans and loaded on to the roof of an inter city bus at the Chennai bus terminal. The bus broke down somewhere between Chennai and Coimbatore. What to do? At one stage there was a plan to send a truck out in search of the broken down van with 24 huge suitcases and duffle bags on the roof but that idea was abandoned as nobody really knew where the break down had occurred. Cell phones and blackberries hummed… Then, some good news from the bus company, the bus was fixed and on its way. “Two hours time” was the promise around mid afternoon Sunday. At about 8:30 pm the bags were still not delivered and the new best estimate was – wait for it – “two hours time”. Mr. Robert and Mani the FFC driver had spent the entire afternoon and evening waiting for the bus to finally arrive in Coimbatore. We went to bed Sunday feeling a bit discouraged at the prospect of having to put the same clothes on again Monday morning but when we arrived at FFC for breakfast, lo and behold, the bags had arrived. Following another delicious FFC breakfast of dosas, idly, dal, pb and j, we finally unpacked our bags!