Annapurna ho!!!!!!!!!!!!

So, after spending the last two days in Pokhara Codie and I are ready to venture forth into the great (kind of-sort of) unknown of the Annapurna mountain range. We checked our trekking ability earlier on this trip outside of Kathmandu an I realized that $6 hiking boots from a vendor in Thailand will fall apart after three days (seriously...both pairs no longer are attached to the soles without the expert stitching of Nepali shoe repair employees). Codie realized the painful lesson of hiking with a pack in flip flops for a day, and we both ditched half the junk we brought on our first excursion for this length of our trip. We are heading up ten days to the Annapurna Base Camp (that's where the real hard core people keep going to the top...we are not hardcore). It's not Everest but there is snow and it's far. We're excited to exist on a steady diet of Dahl Baht (Lentils and rice with seasoning) for the next few days and to really get into the Nepali mountain range.
Pokhara is a Nepali tourist town with a great mountain view but we managed to beat the crowds today by renting bikes and boats and rowing out in the lake to watch the sunset as devotees hired boats to visit the island's Hindu temple. We didn't go to the temple but we did rock out to the sounds of Tibetan monks singing Nepali pop songs from the boat close to ours. Check back with you in 10 days! Happy March!