Srirangapatna-Melkote Trip (mis)Adventures

Me and three of my friends (Mukunth,Vidhya and Gayathri) had been to pilgrimage/adventure(this aspect not planned ;-)) trip to melkote and srirangapatna.The (mis)adventures that were part of the trip made us think if we were cursed by the almighty.
Mukunth thorugh his group mailing skills,persuation skills,language skills and many other skills he is blessed with tried to organise a gang to people to accompany him on his pilgrimage trip to melkote.Finally he could manage only a BIG gang of 3 other people ;-).So finally after some hectic mail activity among the grp the plan was finalised.
THE PLAN
It was that we all meet @ 6.30 am @ City station.Mukunth's train was supposed to come to come @ 4.45am.I was to get up and go there and meet him and he planned to bath at the waiting room to save time and leave by the 7.15 train to mysore and get down at mandya.Visit melkote.On the way
map of srirangapatna back we planned to visit srirangapatna and balmuri falls if time permitted.
My plan was to cook lemon rice and sundal and buy some chips so we could all eat on our way.I had bought all the stuff required.
HOW IT WENT AWRY
1) I went to sleep @ 2 and set my alarm to 3.30 to cook,pack,bath and start.My alarm failed me.(Or i
failed my alarm i am not sure which one is true)I slept me b4 srgpatna temple on till 5.15 when mukunth after waiting in the station for me for 30 min called me.As usual i lied i was on my way and went there @ 6.10 AM
2)The waiting room in which mukunth was supposed to bath was closed for renovation.He had to go to the busstand to bath .Actually KSTDC has very
good bathrooms(they charge 35 bucks too)so, it was actually a blessing in
disguise.We gave that guy extra 15 bucks as deposit and failed to take it back.So finally when we were back@ the railway station it was 7.10
3)Mukunth,the munujagrithai munusami, had got three tickets to mandya by train.Vidhya and Gayathri arrived @ 7.15.When we went in the train had just left.Next train was only after noon.Another Rs 100+ muk b4 srgpatna temple down the drain.
4)Then we came to Majestic bus stand and found out that some days back all busses to mysore except Point to Point were shifted to the sattellite bus-stand around 10 km away.We got a bus to there in 10 min luckily(very rare lucky moment that day).
5)We went and got down @ mandya around 11.30 only to find that the bus to melkote, sceduled for 10.30 am had not yet arrived.They had no clue
when/if it would come and we knew that the melkote temple would be mostly closed even if by some divine intervention we get a bus.So we had to go the next stop srgpatna.We could have saved 30+ minutes and 20+ rupees had we gone by the same bus directly to srgpatna.
6)Now we went to srgpatna and enquired abt timings temple tank+melkote of the bus to melkote.It was by 1:15.We had 1 hr left.So we hurried to the temple got nice crowd free darshan took some snaps and returned back @ 1.16 just to hear that we had missed the direct bus by a whisker.(When we are on time the bus is usually late..but not vice versa..murphy's law)
7)Now we got onto a bus to some xxx cross and got down somewhere 5 km
Melkote tank(temple above) away from melkote( Its been 1 month thats why so many somewheres). From there we took a share-auto reached the temple finished darshan at thirunarayanapuram(down) and melkote.If u think our misadventures have ended u r wrong.
8)We had to take a circutious route and go back to srgpatna instead of mandya because we din have bus in the correct direction.So that added 1 hr extra to travel time.Then our Bus got repaired.We were seated comfi and calculating accounts of the expenses when we got to know we had to change bus.The new bus was full as we got enroute.Luckily we got 3 seats and had to cram in and adjust to come back to bangalore @ 11.30 :-).. It had taken us nearly 2.5 hrs more.
Thus ended our momentous ans eventful trip :-)(oru maasama eluthi eluhti oru vazhiya intha posta muduchutten he he)