Happy Holi

The story of our Holi Day.

Cam and Annika get ready for their day. They walk out of their apartment onto the street and start walking around the neighborhood. SPLASH. Just missing Annika's ear a water balloon crashes to the ground. Cam looks up and yells... RUN... Cam and Annika run and narrowly are missed by a bucket of water coming from the top of an apartment building.

Cam and Annika decided they need amo and buy colored powder and water guns. After coloring and soaking some young children they decide to play Holi with the children and go after some other teenage kids. The
day was full of coloring other people, soaking other people and being the one colored and the one soaked.

Holi day is a Hindu festival dedicated to lord krishna and pretty much all of Nepal and India, young and old, participate. (Seriously hilarious when you look up and find that an old lady was the one that tried to hit you with a water balloon. Crazy!)

This is at Patan CBR when we celebrated the day before with the children and Staff

Again at Patan CBR

One of the staff's children at Patan CBR

Our didi's that look after our apartment on Holi Day

Cam after Holi Day

Annika after Holi Day looking down at kids between drenched in water by our Didi's

Cam's Shave

Cam's first time at the Barber. He asked to be clean shaven but they did not understand. However they did give him a really good trim, a nice face wash, face massage and even cracked his back for him! Please look at the last picture and how awesome Cam's hair is styled....

Cam getting his shave.

The shave continues

Outside the Nepal Hair Cutting Saloon for Ladies & Jents

Long time away....

9 days in the wilderness. We had alot of fun kayaking the Sun Kosi River on class 2-3 rapids. The water was quite low and therefore between the fun rapid parts and some really big waves we had to do alot of paddling.

Some highlights of our trip besides the kayaking was...
- Kayaking beside a young 7 year old boy who was on a tube using a stick with plastic on either ends to paddle
- Talking Nepalese to some highschool aged village girls and then asked to come see the village of Nabugat.
- Dancing with the villagers of Nabugat
- Having village children come from 2 hours away just to meet us
- Annika talking to Cam from inside her tent and then opening the tent to find 3 young Nepalese children peering in
- Having 10 Nepalese children burst into acrobats when we started to take pictures of them
- Seeing boats carved out of a log
- Seeing visually how to rivers collide and run beside each other before mixing. One is blueish green and the other is sandy colored from the sediment from the mountain stone.

Kayaking beside a little boy!

Us with the people who took us on a tour of Nabugat

Nabugat

Nabugat School

The Canoe carved out of a Tree Trunk

The children who walked 2 hours to meet us playing on our kayaks

A nice waterfall that we had lunched beside!

Trisuli Kayaking!

Wow.... What a fun weekend. Kayaking between white sandy beaches, canyon walls and small Nepalese villages is amazing. This weekend gave us a taste of what kayaking for 9 days in Nepal next week will be like. It is so amazing how you can be amongst so many villagers and feel like you are still in the pristine wilderness because the people truly live with instead of against nature. 

Our sandy beach camp!

Hiking between local gardens to get to the river!

Finally at the beach!

Kayaking through small rapids.

There Annika goes through some rapids.

This is 'Upset' Rapid. This picture does not do the rapid justice.