I was not in bangalore last week, as we took a 5 days trip to mookambika temple, for mine and my cousin chakki's 'Ezhuthinirithal' ritual. It was fun as my achamma, achachan, valiyachan, valiyamma and chakki was also there with us, we all went to Golden temple budhdhist golden temple in kushal nagar, Malpe beach, St marys island, kukke subramanya temple, omkara kshetram, murudeshwara temple and then returned back to madikeri. Achan, amma and myself came back to bangalore via mysore, visiting mysore zoo. i saw giraffe, and african elephant for the first time there. rest of the 'team' went back to calcut via Kannur.