Why did Giselle bring me here ! Whats wrong with Germany or France ??

Despite nearly falling over on the tube we made it to the airport with four and half hours to spare. After wondering around finding stuff to make our rucksacks stand out we invested in a tag each with a picture of the tube map and a brightly coloured strap to put around each of the bags. While attaching the strap Giselle came out with "I'm going to call my bag Elvis, and together we can be Giselvis. Were like Jedward !" Amazing I thought. I have yet to think of a name for me and my bag.On the way to checking in Giselle fell in love with an airport man "I think i love him". Nothing particularly exciting happened in this bit so i'll just skip it but we made it through to departures easily enough. Our first single serving friend was made while waiting to board, a young guy who was traveling to Delhi for the first time on his own for a month, he looked terrified. We briefly told each other where we were going and wished each other good luck. Me and Giselle were overly excited about the about of stuff you get on the jet airways flights.A cushion, blanket and a hot flannel ! YAY annnddd they were showing the kings speech, 127 hours, black swan and true grit on the back of the seat screens, this was the main reason for our lack of sleep. We also got 3 meals !Once we had started to relax the captain spoke and it sounded like "no talking is allowed on this plane". What ?! turns out he said no smoking.

It wasn't just the TV's that kept me and Giselle entertained, to the left of me a strange lady had started clipping her nails (which i thought was a bit weird on a plane) she then started brushing her teeth and used her flannel to wipe under her arms (we now call this doing a Shirley after her), she was generally a bit strange. (Shirley ended up staying in the same guest house as us, Proffeser Shirley and actually seemed like a nice lady.)
We got off our flight in Dehli to change to fly to Kathmandu, this is where we were a bit scared about loosing our rucksacks as they were being moved to a new aircraft. We had to go through customs again, but all the females had to go into a private room with a security lady to get searched, this concerned me a little but turned out to be fine. Once through to departures Giselle wanted some water but we were lacking in the Rupees area as we couldn't get any in England. So we did it by card, the lady took the card and waved to follow her, so we did, it was just to another bar. The man there typed into the machine and handed it to Giselle and all seemed well. We said thanx and were on our way. It wasnt til Giselle checked the receipt that we realised that our 2 bottles of water had cost us Rs700 which is around 7 pounds. Pretty sure the man did this on purpose, oh well.Welcome to India !
Got on second plane and slept, except when we got more food YAY though couldnt eat it all as some was more spicey than my taste buds could handle. Landed in Kathmandu, this is when it wasnt really clear what we were meant to do, so just as any one else would do we followed a tour man. Had to fill in some paper work and then went to change some pennies. This is where id like to say to any one who may in the future travel to Nepal, get a visa before as the line of people was massive and we could of been there forever waiting for one. Out of nowhere a tourist man started shouting "SECURITY SECURITY" apparently a nepalese man had stolen some of his money. Have to admit none of the security seemed that bothered, but I dont know what happened because we left.
I found my rucksack straight away, wuhooo ! but yep Elvis (giselle rucksack) was nowhere to be seen. It took us a while but he was in a random pile of bags, some one had obviously decided he should be put there.
On the way to turning down lots of other people who wanted us to get in there taxis we found Annupurna guest houses man and followed him. (this is something else i would reccomend if traveling here, booking a place to stay that can pick you up from the airport even if you just want to stay there for one night.) This is where we met Shirly (strange plane lady) who had been to nepal lots of time before and does lectures, she specialises in medicene.
First thoughts of Kathmandu : OH GOD ! why am here? Saw 2 monkeys while I was in the cab and im pretty sure there is no system to their traffic (they seem to beep at anything and everything.) Have to admit I was pretty scared just generally (I dont think that having only 2 hours sleep over 2 days helped though). The weather is a nice temperature, so thats a plus.

It's amazing looking around and seeing
mountains in every direction.

Got to our guest house and said alot of namastes, and got taken to our room. Is basic but im happy with it, we have a shared bathroom which is also reasonably nice though the light seems to just do what it wants. Once we got in our room we tried to settle down and work out what we wanted to. Giselle wanted to reread the nepal book (as everything we read seems to have just gone out of our brains) and I a) wanted to kill Giselle a little bit, 'It was her idea to come here, why couldn't we of gone somewhere nice where I wouldn't be scared of everyone and everything.' and b) wanted to get out asap, I was actually scared of the thought that we would be spending the next 2 months of our lives here and wanted to try and get a nice thought into my head instead. Giselle read abit of her book, we then locked our rucksacks in our wardrobe with a bike lock (would also recomend taking one of these) then locked the door and were on our way.
We went up to the garden on the top of our guest house, it was amazing, the sun was really low in the sky and you could see all the mountains around Kathmandu, even the buildings looked pretty. (This is were I started feeling better.) I looked down and on top of the house next to us there were a few chickens who looked happy and a bird in the sky some sort of large bird of prey was flying around, Blish !
We then wondered round the streets but decided to head back and get some food from the guest house (it was tasty and cost Rs200). This is where we met and Dutch man who seemed upset by how much it had changed since he was here 20 years ago. Then went to bed. (so far not bitten by a monkey, dog or moquitoes YAY)

First shower... the light went out... shower in the dark, oh well. I'm sure theres many more of those to come

OK, I thought lying in bed it's not that bad, I can handle it.... well actually I have no choice whether I like it or not I am now here for two months. Wish me luck.


Special thanx to Kevin for sponsoring my sky dive on just giving !! I appreciate it.