Suddenly there was a flurry of activity all around the hotel. I was sitting on the bed doing whatever I was doing, when Gideon poked his head in from the balcony and said get out here, now! I could hear other people exclaiming from their balconies and the sound of quick footsteps around us.
The mountains were making an appearance. And it was breathtaking.
We are spending a couple days in the foothills of the Himalayas in Nepal. A place that was never on my bucket list, but when work decides to hold a conference in Kathmandu, one doesn’t argue! We arrived a few days early in hopes of catching a glimpse of a few snow-capped peaks, along with some fresh air and quiet away from the city. It’s not really the right time of year; we’re just at the end of the rainy season and its steady, pervasive cloud cover, but worth a try, especially if we don’t think it’s likely we’ll ever get back to this part of the world.
Well, it’s been pretty cloudy, to the extent that it was hard to see out past the end of our small balcony from time to time as we are literally sitting in the clouds, but for a brief space on Thursday night, the clouds parted just enough to get all the guests excited and all the cameras snapping like crazy.
And then we got doubly lucky to get a beautiful sunrise the next morning, the cover photo for this post. It has made these extra two days and the long, windy road through the mountains worth it!
Let us begin 