Day 10: The gang goes to Paris
Trip Start
Jun 03, 2009
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Trip End
Ongoing
Phakding, Nepal
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Polish Australian – skinny, spindly, wore gigantic floppy hat and ridiculously short shorts, Australian who spoke bad English, totally excited to see us every single time, Jiri to base camp in 11 days
Angry Australian couple – angry, particularly the girl because her boyfriend forced her to do the worst trek in the world, miserable every time we saw her
Team Heroic – name forced by Captain Claw aka Claw Hand, 3 Irish blokes, basically our BFFs on the trail, we would reserve each other hotel rooms but they would get a fancy room and let us shower for free, promised to be our Ireland tour guides when we come, we know they are thrilled, could not find them our last night in Kathmandu for drinks, Lindsey and Jon may in fact know each other from previous travel lives. The 3 members are:
Ken (claw hand) – overdosing on diamox because got claw hands last month in Tajikistan, talks non-stop, scared of dogs, claims he hates meeting new people but evidence suggests otherwise, also claims to hate cards but always plays and in fact is the only one carrying cards, has a tuna addiction problem, is a luddite
Jon – once represented Ireland in dance competition, the most technologically advanced as he has a facebook page, always lets Lindsey finish his dinner plate, used to call him the cute one on the trail but now its awkward because he will read this
Paul – his idea to climb so they all have someone to blame, loved his school teacher a little too much, is above gambling 10 rupees on blackjack, gave us money when ours was stolen
UK trekking team - large trekking team from the UK that as Brit would say "we annihilated up the mountain", members include: NOTE: this team does not oppose yak abuse.
Leader from Bhutan - hated us until Brittany left, thereafter unexplained touchiness occurred, loved to wear Tibetan scarves, told Brittany he felt sorry for her life
Brother from wedding crashers - the creepy one, enough said
3 bald guys - though we were loud, liked to drink, said we were their entertainment
Rat face - non-stop bitchfest, looked like a rat, God forbid you give her a chocolate mouse instead of pudding
Rat face's husband - always sitting down, lazy one of the group
Carl's twin - always congested, loved us the most, looked suspiciously like Carl from Coffee Bay
Trekking Friends - 2 couples who met on Macchu Pichu, like to drink more than they like to trek
Young boy - horrible at flirting, once taunted Lindsey about being tired to which she responded "Yeah, it must be tough carrying your own pack", sneakily took pictures of us while we were not looking
Hiking time – 6 hours
Highest elevation – 2945 m
Lowest elevation – 2290 m
Sleeping elevation – 2640 m
Cups of tea – 12
Color of local beer – white
Classes of chang (local beer) – 4 ½
White people – too many
Dzoiks (cross between a yak and a cow) – too many
Leech attacks – 1
Falls – Brittany 0, Sarah 1, Lindsey ½ (in lodge)
Cameras broken – 2
Rain – all day
Bed time – 9:00
Sarah-
Glum- hiking in wet clothes/ camera broke
Glow- hitting the highway to namache
Lindsey
Glum- hurt foot
Glow- having someone else to talk to besides these fools
Bittany
Glum- sweat rash/ we thought we in paris and people judged us/ tooo many whites
Glow- actually appreciating we came in from jiri
Comments
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this is now my favorite cast of characters.
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Ok first of all you spelled his name wrong. Its John... with and H. Why do I know this? Because I am a creepy stalker on facebook and this John character posted pictures of you girls a while ago. I have been anxiously awaiting his appearance on the Blog. I think Im even more excited now that I know he has an Irish accent...
And the camera is broken??? this makes me sad