Two last things!!!

First...my hair cut. There are TONS of places to get your hair cut in Lhasa - from tiny little shops to bigger salons. A said I needed to look for a clean place and we walked around and found one that looked good. I asked for a hair cut and they indicated no problem (there is a bit of a language barrier here :). They said 30 Yuan, ok? I said OK - that's only 2 GBPs :) So snip snip snip...with the largest pair of scissors that I have ever had my hair cut with - they were as big as the ones the tailors in India use! An 8 inch blade, for sure :) And then we were done and I was ready to pay and go when they said they were going to wash my hair...that's a good idea, I don't have to walk around with little bits tickling me, so off I went to have my hair washed in the back room (A was reading magazines in the waiting area). Then it was back in the chair for what I thought was a bit of drying then a comb and I would be out of there...but no, it was time for a massage :) It started with ahead massage and then moved to my neck and face...then it was thwock thwock thwock (startling A from her magazine :) as he did some noise making with his hands on my head. Then it was my shoulders and back getting the massage treatment and then even down my arms as he did a twisting motion all down my arm and then on each of my fingers. Ah, lovely. What a great haircut routine! :)

And for item number 2...we did say that there is a bit of a language issue here :) We went shopping for all sorts of things at a massive grocery store, including shampoo and shower gel, which we are out of. I found a bottle of Olay Body which looks like the stuff my Mom keeps in the shower and I love to use when I visit. We checked the smell and it was decent...a very helpful sales girl tried to get us to sample it, but we didn't think we needed to sample the soap :) A opened a couple of bottles of other things, to give them the sniff test, and ended up covered in lotion when the bottle, obviously packaged at a much lower altitude, released it's pent up pressure :) After our ride A got the first shower and commented that the new shower gel wasn't foaming very well...and you needed to use quite a lot to get the coverage (it wasn't that we were that dirty from our ride :). SO I go in for my shower and try to use it and I suddenly realize that it's not body *wash* it's body*lotion*! They could be a little more specific on their bottles....but it was good timing, as we both caught the sun on our limbs and have a bit of sunburn and lotion is just the thing to make it feel better :)

Later!!!!