Thanksgiving in Nepal

Too bad they don't celebrate Thanksgiving everywhere in the world! Most of the day I was like "oh yea- it's thanksgiving?" Ironically though- we did spend the day celebrating and with family and with exchanging "thank you's!"
We visited one of the 7 refugee camps here in Nepal. They are all people from Bhutan who got kicked out about 18 years ago. Julia who works with refugees from Nepal that come to America organized for us to come visit here, bringing gifts from their family members in the US to them here in Nepal. THEY FED US SO MUCH FOOD! So yea, it was a feast. I cannot write enough about how amazing it was to visit here! I will post more about the refugee camps later- we have been visiting them all week.




These were some of the family members we visited
We walked around and visited their schools and some of their different places of prayer and temples. To my right is the hindu priest that gave us a blessing with Tikka (the red dot on the forhead-each of us our first time) and put leis of marigold around our necks- how special!


This was taken in a classroom for adults learning english- many of them will be resettling in America. We sat in with them for a photo. I was thinking.... how awesome would that be to have class sitting barefoot indian (ha ha ha) style in a palm branch hut- I love that- call me crazy. I think I was born for the islands, I'm still very fascinated by tropical life.
Cheers! We had some beer to celebrate on the rooftop resturaunt of our hotel.... and our most expensive meal yet- over a thousand rupees!!! Which is equal to $20 US dollars. Tina threw it all up too, what a waste. Just kidding Tina I love you!!! I'm glad your better now!