hows it going? well i tried a couple time to write on the blog since the trek and each time the computers connection dies. here we go again!

so were in katmandu! the trek was amazing. loved it. first day was ALL UP! ugh. not even kidding. i counted 3704 steps. it was like switch back stair cases! oh and in the rain. we arrived at the top, shivvering and shakin. cold and exhaustion. only to find that the power was out so there was no hot water or fire (wood was wet) that sucked so we went to bed under a foot of blankets tried to survive. we woke the next morning to suny skys and sam with the sniffles and a sore throat. after a couple cups of chai and boiled eggs, we hit the trail. it was a slow day (more up) but luckily we didnt have far to go. we wanted to stay in a village called gorpani. we arrived at about 2pm. we were just in time as it started raining right away. well it rained and rained all the day long until dark came and then it started snowing. luckily we found a nice guest house that had a giant indoor fire and we didnt move more than 4 feet from it all day. we woke the next mornign to the bluest skys we've seen since canada. blue blue blue. amazing. full sun which made the snow blinding. i got sunburnt, even though i had 2 bottles of sunscreen in the pack a meer 4 inches from my head. funny it reminded me of laughing at my dad when he shows us picture of him climbing some glacier in africa, squinting into the camera, with sun goggles on his fore head... he went snow blind for almost week. haha. well anyways, that day was AMAZING! we agreed it was definitley the best day of the whole trip. just increadible. the fire from the day before, cleared sams cold and the short day left us rested. after a couple hours we arrived at the peak that we were heading for and were shocked! huge mountains! the himalayas! these are mountains. and still not a cloud in the sky. well we continued hiking and it was great, so good we decided to keep going and to tomorrows hike today. good idea at the time. i think around hour 8 we stopped looking at the forests and views and started staring at the ground, desperate not to break an ankle. haha. but it was worth it and it was still an amazing day. the last day was pretty uneventful, except for the sorest legs you could imagine and miles of downward stairs to climb.and when we finally finished we jumped on a bus (on the roof, cause thats the most fun) spent the next hour dodging low lying power lines and tree branches, until it started raining agian and we got wet and cold. anyways. got home hot shower and that was the end of an amazing trek. loved it and are stoked to come back some day and do a bigger one! with a jacket next time!

now were in katmandu for a day or two and then we fly to bangkok to see josh and ali! that'll be fun. anyways, love to all. ill try to get picture up tomorrow. computers seem pretty good in kat.

love you all

hey everyone! whats new? im sorry if this whole, me not blogging regularly is getting old. its hard to blog! you have to write about your days, all the time and remember not to offend anyone, write but not about your feeling (cause thats gay!!)... oh, well so much for not offending anyone. oh and blogging is like writing to a friend that never write back, if that makes sense.

so we did it! we are not in india!!! thank freaking god! we were soooooo burned out on indian the end. now i know, in four or five years ill be talking fond memories about it, but holy crap india is exhausting! but we made it and are now in nepal! nepal, for everyone who hasnt been, is mellow for the most part, the food doesnt make you feel like your going to blow up everytime, and the people are beyond kind. soft spoken and polite. and they dont stare like they're expecting monkeys to fly out of your butt at any minute, ok im done. this blog has nothing to do with any friend we had or we made in india, you are all great and we love you all. it was just the rest of india that had it in for us. we got in to katmamdu a few days ago and that was a tonne of fun. a little pricey but still great. now were in pokhara. arrived this evening and its beautiful. wrapped around this great lake with a buddhist temple (i think its buddhist) on a mountain top on the far side and a hindu temple in the middle of the lake on an island.

were planning a five or six day trek starting the day after tom and that should be great. get our ass's handed to us on the hills and our knees on the down hill. but ill write when we get back hopefully be full of stories and such. oh and ill try to get soem pics up. these computers dont seem to like my memory card still.

love to all
LUKE and SAM

hey everyone hows it going? sorry for the delays in the blog. im begining to suck at it. its just that the computers suck in this country... well especially in calcutta. i tried the other day and the computer kept freezing and stalling. like 4 times. and any of you that know me,might know i have short patience for computers. and before that, this stupid key board kept falling apart. my sweaty fingers (they usually sweat alot) plus the gummy keys (some clown tried taping hebrew letters to the keys and it all fell off, except for the tape glue) made the keys keep sticking to my tips and comming right out of the key board. it was weird.

so here it is. finally found a computer place that doesnt frustrate me. as you might have guessed were now in calcutta. from the last post sam and i went from rishakesh (after some very shitty days. sam got blasted by a fire hose and i almost my ass beat up my a david hassalfor wanna be, just to start). so we left rish and headed to delhi for a couple days, which was really nice. went to the zoo and saw bengal tigers, and leopards and cows... yes they had cows in the zoo! cows that were exactly the same as the cows on the street, outside the zoo, eating garbage! i dont know dont ask. oh and it was the holi festival. that was crazy. for those of you that dont know thats the festival where the police turn a blind eye, and from morning to 2pm sharp, all hell breaks loose. the idea of the festival is to smeat paint on eachother and have fun. it really was a lot of fun. we were warned against going to delhi for it, as they get quite rough, but we had a flight to catch. so, it was crazy. we went out for about 20 minutes and came back with thick paint, head to toe all over. wet paint, powder paint, paint in water balloons, paiont in water guns, everything. it was nuts. most the locals were either piss drunk, or high as a kite and stumbled around laughing and hugging eachother and everyone. it was crazy. sams head actually looked like a rasta flag, she oozed green even after showering and shampooing, over and over. only problem was the locals got a little frisky and inappropriate and tried to cop a feel from sam. i think at one point she had two guys down on their knees holding them my the back of their hair. funny... kinda. they would pull the, hand full of paint smear from the side of the head down the cheek and neck and "accidentally" grab her boob. those guys were actually sneaky. other knobs would just grab her boob. thats when she went king foo on them and we headed home. but luckily, at 2pm the cops came out and started hitting everyone with bamboo sticks (that seems to be their solutions to most issues) who tried anyting. it was funny, at 2pm everyone not participating seemed to just come out of the wood works and start business like it was early morning. but the colors in the streets were very cool.

so now were in calcutta. pretty cool city. an old colonia city, with beautiful buildings and architecture. we went to mother teresias grave yesterday and that was very cool. today were going to explore the city more and maybe boogey down to this very impressive old grave yard from the 1790's. great big mausoleums. very sweet. anyweays. well try for pics soon. but not promising anything. these indias computers seems to eat photos off the memory card. were heading to nepal in a few days and gonna trek and suck for 2 weeks, then thailand! very excited. i think were both burning out on india so it'll be great to move on and eat lots of momos and tea.

anyways. lots of love to you all.

oh and new pics are up. i put up one of a cow/cat! serious. so sweet.

hello everybody. i trust everyone is well. things are going well here also. today is my last day of yoga and i feel great. my body hated yago around day 4 to 5 and a half, but now i love it. i can actually put both palms on the ground and am inches from touching my fore head to my knees when bending over forward! solid... dont worry sam has safely extricated herself from the wall. we started our massage course yesterday and that was also fun. now its revenge for us afetr he massaged us. im pinching the shit out of the teachers feet and sam got 8 fingers in HIS crack!! hey hey. the massage were doing is auyvetic massage. its a traditional indian healing practice originating from kerela way down south. the massage, essentially, is like having dr J Fox give your an active release session ALL OVER YOUR BODY!! ettienne will know what i mean by this. its the worst pain you can imagine for his 15 minute lessons, only these last almost 2 hours. but when you leave, holy cow its amazing! your looser than you ever thought you could be! you like jello! in the practice the teacher massages a buddy of his, then samand i massage him, quite funny cause he has a little smile and repeats "YES" in his deep indian accent. then him and i massage sam then me. only, he squeezes too hard, as i do, so poor sam lies there in fits of agony. neither one of us will let up becasue we assume its the other making sams face contort like that. and when i get massaged, he squeezes the hell out of my left side and sam the right, now sam is super gentle, so when we leave sams limping and im walking in circles! but its great and well both be experts so sam can massage all of you.

much love

LUKE and SAM

Don't Touch Me!!!

Okay so I thought that getting stuck under my legs was bad the other day - but then last night came and I got imprisoned between my legs and a wall ... so yoga is gooooood. I can't feel anything below my earlobes but I've heard all that stuffs overrated anyways ... (Luke says to tell everyone that new pics are up ... please view - hee hee) Life here is very nice. Learning lots about my body and how to be aware of all my parts ALL the time. At the moment I am 'aware' that I cannot sit up straight or look over my right shoulder - - but I think I'm well on my way.

Love Love ...

hello everyone, hope you are all well. sam and i are doing great. we are both getting our yoga on twice a day in rishakesh. the days are flying by. we each have 2 hours in the morning and 2 hours in the evening. we are both more sore than we've been in a very long time. honestly every part of either of us hurt. kinda sad actually. but its great. havent felt anyting but the hard seat of a ghetto bus ride in a long time so a little butt kicking was far over due.

when we're not in yoga, here in rishakesh, sam and i spend the hours reading, walking, getting custum pants made, and a lot of drinking chai in shaded streets under the towering mountains, watching the sadus, and cows walk by... the cows are much more interesting, they actually have personality here, they beg for food, come up behind you and sniff you if you're buying street food and hope for a snack. very interesting compared to the cows of home. the cows here have free reign. they are holy and they know it. they'll lounge in the sun, actually pulling off a very convincing cat impersonation, and make the cars drive around them, usually with an angry indian shouting some hindi swears at the before roaring off. quite nice days. anyways, thats about all for now. take care.