hello!! we're back from our Annapurna Sanctuary trek--10 days total. we went into this with HUGE expectations and got so much more than we could have imagined! because of clouds bringing in the rainy season, we didn't see the peaks from our lodge in pokhara until the morning we were leaving on the trek. nice tempting taste of what was to come! the first day was hot. lots of hillside walking--lots of villages--wasn't bad until the last stretch of stairmaster hel...

namaste! after 8 hours on a bus, we finally made it to Pokhara Nepal!! it's only 200km away from Kathmandu but we stopped 8 times for breaks so it took us all day to get here. it was hot and matt wished "for a diaper full of ice cubes" but no one was selling any. Milan, our trek guide, met us at the bus station and took us to the hotel we've been staying at. we got the penthouse (very different from US penthouses though...) with an AMAZING view of t...

hello!! or namaste as they say here in nepal! (cheesy.......) we arrived in Kathmandu last night and spent today exploring the city! matt got up early and watched the sunrise from the roof of our building with a couple of the locals doing the same from theirs while i slept in... we ate breakfast in the garden of our guest house (hostel/hotel) and then took off toward Durbar Square (old kings house, the living goddess, market). all of the children here take their...