Elephants are cool

Elephants are huge! Specially when they are 3 feet away..

Today we went a trip to the Royal Zoo in Kathmandu which was not so bad.








The coolest part was when they took out a huge elephant for a bath.


I would like to see that happen in Norway, with kids 3 feet away. You can ride the elephant for aprox 25 nok, or rent it for an our for 450 nok. It has been seen around town with a scared tourist on top. :)







Other than that we're getting used to the heat, and humidity. The kids are doing just fine, still enjoying all the new sights.

More pictures from the trip and the first few days can be found at http://picasaweb.google.no/lasse.storholt/TurOgFRsteDagerINepal

Finally here!

So we arrived yesterday, after 20 something hours of travelling. The trip went great, the children seemed to find something to do all the time, and all the flights where on schedule. We had to circle around Kathmandu for two hours because the pilot did not see the runway.
There where other flights that landed while we where circling, but we heard later that Qatar Air was a little stricter regarding seeing/not seeing the runway before landing. :) No problem for us, we got two extra hours of sleep, and landed safely.

Yesterday everyone was a little tired, but ok, and today after 12-14 hours of good sleep we all feel better. Filip felt a little quizy this morning, but seems to be doing much better now, after starting eating and drinking again.

Kathmandu traffic is something that has to be seen, if you are used to the traffic in Norway. You can see some examples of it on youtube, just search for traffic kathmandu. The kids thought that cows in the road was cool, and they quickly got used to everyone honking all the time.

More later, getting ready for barbecue with our new nice Norwegian neighbours.

Leaving tomorrow!!!

So, the house is now quite empty, and we're ready to go. We're going to miss all out friends and family here in norway, but we're certain that this was the right choice for us to make. The children are looking forward to seeing how Nepal is. Ada asked me this evening 'do the flowers in Nepal smell sweet?' :) and '..are there more flowers in Nepal then in Norway?'. I think she will love it there as soon as she gets some new friends at her new school. Filip ofcourse does not understand what he will experience yet, but the last time he was there they threated him as a semi-god because of his smiles and blond hair. :)

Ok, time to fix the last things before we go. We will be online soon i think because the house we're staying at the first weeks has internet already set up. We will probably move into 'our' house in mid July.

By the way it seems that there is some progress in nepal regarding tje new goverment, welcoming news for the worlds youngest republic http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-06/26/content_8439007.htm