Day 12 &13

Today we went back to the Colombo church for service and a quick meeting while the accounting guys were there then spent the rest of the afternoon packing and getting ready for our trip to the airport. We met up with Ap David who returned from the northern district of Sri Lanka. He said that its quite a depressing area because during the war the south pretty much destroyed anything that was the Tamils and they all live in tent cities. The conditions aren't the best.

We headed to the airport at 11pm because our flight was scheduled for 2:10am to Bangkok. It was a pretty full flight and we arrived on time for a 3 hour wait. The Bangkok airport is one huge mother of an airport. There are lots of shops and "duty free" stores but probably not the best prices. Our flight to Nepal was on time as well and I made sure that I was on the right side of the plane because I was told that if its clear then you can see Mt Everest. So I got to my window seat on the right side of the plane but I'm sitting in the first row in the back section of the plane. The seat is right at an exit door just past the wing so THERES NO WINDOWS!! I could look out the window that was just at my head but was mostly for the seat behind me. That was OK until the lady closes the blind. So my only option is the exit door in front of me but I have to get up and lean over to look out. So my kind father in law came back to visit me and tells the stewardesses ( just a side note: did you know that stewardesses is the longest word that you can type only on your left hand ?...but I digress) and they come and get me and more me up to a window seat in the section in front that has no one in it. There's only 2 problems 1. is that its directly over the wing! The only thing you can see is the wing and bits in front and back of it 2. About 2 mins after they move me the guy that was sitting there returns….. So back I go.

The weather was clear but the Himalayans are pretty far away and they only appear as we're descending into Kathmandu. So here I am taking pictures out of the port holes in the side and the back instead of being strapped into my seat. It's not my fault because another lady that was taking pictures told me to go to the back of the plane because you could see them better. I took a bunch of pictures but I'm not sure how they'll turn out.

I just checked the pictures and I got a picture of Everest! I only know that because the picture is pretty high res and I was able to zoom in.

We hit the ground and went thru the totally whacked procedure at the Nepal airport and headed to the hotel. In Sri Lanka the roads were filled with all kinds of Tuk Tuk's. In Nepal its filled with all kinds of motorcycles. I've never seen so many on the roads and the smog is pretty bad too.

So after a nice supper and close to 40 hours awake sleep came quickly…..