Got up about 7:00, blue skies outside, went up to the rooftop of the lodge and the mountains were clear. Woohoo! I knocked on Wayne's door to get him up.
Tried to have a shower, only cold water, so didn't. Wayne went off to get a motorcycle. As I was waiting, another girl, Lyla, from San Fransisco, was inquiring from the hotel dude about getting a taxi up to Sarangkot, so I invited her to come up with us, and ride on the back of either my scooter or Wayne's motorcycle.
We left about 8:00. She had to ride with Wayne, as my scooter wasn't powerful enough for the two of us.
As we rode up, we could see clouds building around the Annapurna range. By the time we got up there, most of the range was in clouds. Foiled again! If we had been there at sunrise, a couple of hours earlier, we would have seen them all, no clouds.
We left at 9:45, and drove further along the highway to a Buddhist Monastic School, then to a Tibetan refugee village with a beautiful monastery. Of course, all the Tibetan refugees were there trying to sell us their jewellry, fabrics, and trinkets. The Tibetan people are so friendly, and so polite, and if you say no, they don't bother you any more.
Got back to town about 11:30, I dropped off my bike and we went for breakfast.
Back to the hotel, I showered and wrote in journal in the garden. Remember the crow in the tree with a bone of some sort, he was picking meat off of it, and another crow kept trying to get it from him, but the first crow wouldn't let him near it. Another girl was sitting under the tree, where the crows were, and the crow dropped the bone, almost hitting her, but definately startling her...she jumped and let out a little scream, then moved to another spot. Quite funny. Also, remember the bat that started flying around the garden, and a crow took chase. It was the spectacle.
I sat in the garden and read all afternoon and hit the internet.
About 6:45, Wayne and I went to scope out restaurants, and decided on the Busy Bee Cafe. I went back to the hotel to leave a note for Lyla telling her where we were, but she was back from doing what she was doing, so I grabbed her and we went all had supper.
Once again, a beautiful evening, mountains in clear view in the setting sun hours, so we decided that we would take a taxi up to Sarangkot very early tomorrow morning, if the skies were clear when we got up. We got back to the hotel about 9:30, and had the hotel dude arrange a taxi for us, for 5:15 pickup from the hotel.
To bed about 9:45.
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