Final days in Nepal

Namaste!

Thanks to everyone who sent birthday wishes and those who called Laurence on Friday... it really means a lot! I know it is very hard for Laurence to have his birthday so far away from family and friends, and especially from his other half (literally!) Harry! So me and a few volunteer friends decided to throw him a little surprise birthday party in the garden of our hotel and then out to our favourite spots in Kathmandu. There were balloons, a cake with candles, jazz, mandolin, a lot of fun and jokes and I think we all had a very good. And just last night we went back to our host family's house in Panchmane with a couple of friends for the second party for Laurence - this time joint with Sujan who's 21 in a week. This was a slightly different party from what we're used to, for example there was still daal bhat and we went to bed at 9.30pm but it was very sweet and fun! So all in all I think L had a good birthday although we will still have to celebrate with everyone back home!

So now we're into our last week in Nepal - we only have 2 and a half days left and we're already thinking about when we can come back again! It is quite strange leaving this country as it has been our home for the past 6 weeks - we even have a family here! But we're also very excited about going off to Thailand and lazing around on beaches without any plans or responsibilities. I don't know why we even bothered bringing our guidebooks with us - we havent looked at them once so far!

I think we'll finally go around and take pictures of Kathmandu in our last few days. We've already used up 10GB of memory cards in just 6 weeks - I dread to think about sorting through it all later! I don't think there will be much more to report in the next few days, so we'll make this our last blog from Nepal (for this year at least), and then we will post something from Thailand as soon as we can when we get to Bangkok - Friday or Saturday depending on how quickly we get settled in.

Lots of love from us both.
Namaste!

Rozzi and Laurence
xxx