Woohoo!!! We are going to Nepal :)

It's not that we don't like Lhasa...we really like it here, but it's time to move on. We have been frustrated with permits and guides and finding people to travel with and we have finally got it all sorted! We met a very nice French fellow while we were perusing the boards and the four of us (me, A, the Frenchman and his German girlfriend) hooked up later this afternoon, talked about what we wanted to see on the way to the border and then approached several agencies. We selected the best offer and booked it - we depart on the first of June on a 4 day trip to the border, taking in Everest Base Camp.

While we were finishing up our booking another couple, from the UK, came into the agency looking to go to Namtso on a two day trip...this is also something we have been wanting to do. We hooked up with them and chased down a trip and we are off to the lake tomorrow morning, heinously early. We will be offline for a couple of days but we will be back with more photos :)

Now we must go get a shower!!!! (the hot water is only on from 7pm to 6am) and get our stuff packed to meet our fellow travellers tomorrow morning at 6:15!!!!!

P.S. to celebrate 6 months yesterday we had ice cream and cake in the afternoon and then we treated ourselves to a really fabulous (but not expensive) dinner at a French restaurant. We shared the 8 Treasures salad (which was like a mezza) and then A had a vegetable au gratin and I had a ground pork stuffed tomato and we washed it all down with Great Wall red wine. It was delicious and reminded me of home....

Goodnight!