- happiest moment of the day was at 5 in the evening when dotter and I sat at the counter cutting beans. She talks like a big girl, amuses me. She doesn't want to hurt me, and makes every effort not to. They play a lot of games at camp which totally reminded me of the kinds of games we played when young. Freeze, and tag and stuff like that, simple games. And she is so excited to teach them to us. I spent most of my tween/teen summers reading a book a day. Pathetic but it was fun in its own way, lost in the magical faraway land.
- transitioned my stuff to my coverage, phew! 2 more days to go. Felt good when he said ' oh man you are doing so much'
- trains run scarce on Sunday's in UK, and car rentals close early. Thanks to tripadvisor I booked a leg of our car rental, now we can explore all we want instead of relying on spotty public transport! One more leg is yet to be explored and nailed.
- last night dotter read a long book, I was a bit impatient, 15mins of book reading extended to 40mins, way past her bed time. I am proud of her for not giving up and finishing it till the end but not so proud for having been taken for a ride by dotter with just 10 pages just 5 pages etc
- I saw this well dressed indian, confident, calm and composed, he exuded this aura, I felt confident and hopeful looking at him when he smiled. FYI he was an old guy likely in his forties so no crush or anything. I want to be like that. I was. Recently I have forgotten to be so.
Just a note - Took our backpacks out to pack and I was instantly transported to Katmandu, the day we landed after the unfinished hike to Everest Base Camp. As a side note, after packing for that trip packing for any trip is a walk in the park. I mean seriously. Anyway, so we landed and our amazing guide had called ahead and asked our luggage that was stored with the company to be brought to the airport. Newspapers had reported epidemic in the city due to many deaths and we didn't want to get into the city. We wanted to get the first possible flight out to Delhi. Our guide helped transfer stuff, a lot of repacking was done on the sidewalk, all my stuff out for people to see. Finally squeezed everything in the bags.our guide said ' everything is okay now, you don't have to rush out of Nepal' then it struck me, we were kind of escaping Nepal wanting to get out ASAP, but this guy our guide, literally our savior at whose mercy we were the previous few days was going to be right there, and face the disaster that struck his country. How would he have felt that we were literally fleeing his country?
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