Why this Yelagiri??

This year, we have a lot of holidays occuring either on Fridays or Mondays. Our first leave was on 26th Jan - thurday. We decided to take off on Friday and plan a long weekend trip. We decided to explore Yelagiri Hills, near Bangalore for 3 days. Dad and V decided to drive upto the hills and I took up the responsibility of booking the hotel.
We booked a cottage at Peter's Park in yelagiri hills. Google maps helped us drive upto the resort smoothly. The resort was indeed beautiful. We had booked a 2 BR cottage and got a parking place beside our house. The place was warm, nice and the staff were quite friendly. Little one seemed to be the most excited person and I found it hard to stop her from running around here and there. First day after reaching the resort, we had lunch, a small nap and then went to the Boat House. We took a walk around the lake and then met an uncle.
After dinner we roamed around for sometime before retiring to bed. The next day after breakfast, we decided to go to Swamimalai temple, a small trek from the foot of a hill. We didnt realise it was a tough trek and all of us started walking the path. We met some trekkers who just came down and told us that the entire trek would take atleast 3 hrs to climb up and then come down. Then we decided that just the two of us would walk up the hill. My parents and Aditi went out sightseeing other places - Nature Park and Murugan temple. The trek was quite tough as we didnt have proper shoes and our clothing was also not very apt, but we kept motivating each other and managed to reach the hill top in about 70 minutes. After clicking a few snaps, we started climbing down. I tripped twice and got my ankle hurt. We did manage to pluck few sprigs of avarekaayi (hyacinth bean) while descending.
The same day we managed to drive down another 100 kms to a place called Sripuram near Vellore. We visited the Golden temple there and it was very beautiful. We opted for the special darshan and managed to complete the darshan in about an hour and half time. We were also able to avail special puja and prasad due to special darshan ticket. We saw the lighting of the temple at 6.30 pm and then started back to our "picnic home" - thats what my daughter called our resort home at Peter's Park.
My feet were swollen after all the walking and I just decided to have a light dinner and just slept off. Next day, we met Mr. Peter's family at his residence, went on to Silk farm to see mulberry cultivation and soon headed back to Bangalore. On the way we had lunch at A2B. Overall it was a short and sweet trip - well deserved break from our hectic routine.