HAPY Farmers of Spaceship Earth

We started off strong! Our guide Suresh and his daughter Sonika leading the way, the sun was out and about, we were hydrated. We walked for about 2 hours and stopped for some lunch - DalBat power 24hr (we later learned the second verse, up on mountain no need shower). Everything was going great. The trek was going to be easy, until, we got to the 37th step. I absolutely could not catch my breath! Going up those steps was so difficult and we only had about 3,150 left. We walked up those stone steps for hours, literally hours! But we did not give up. There were people that stopped at Tea Houses along the way, no longer able to continue the climb. But not us. No, we were determined to get those stairs out of the way on day one. We did not want to wake up the morning of day two and have to face them again. So we climbed. We climbed until we couldn't climb anymore, we climbed until the sun started setting, and at that moment Ulleri came into view. One hundred steps left, taking a break ...

We arrived in Kathmandu which was meant to be our next destination... however, upon arrival, we decided to only spend one night here. We booked out flights to Pokhara the next day. Yehuda was brilliant and being that everything was delayed at the airport he kept asking the ticket counter if they had extra room on the flights that were boarding. We got on a flight and they had given us THE BEST SEATS! Front row, loads of leg room, and the side of the plane with the view of the Himalayas. We got to our hotel (which has been incredible) went to the spa, found some nice vegan places to eat, and have started prepping for our trekk!

After spending a month in Israel hanging out with family and friends, we finally decided it was time to leave. We had an awesome Rosh Hashana at Racheli and Jonny in Beit Meir. We did a few hikes around the moshav, had yummy food and finally met Major (who is gigantore)! Spent first days of sukkot with the Rubins and Kafkas, hanging out with the family, having delicious meals, jamming in the sukkah.  After that we headed to the Moshav Moddim festival for some music, art and good vibes. We visited Tequoa, met up with our friends Yocheved and Shmaya and went to a private Yosef Carduner concert. We went to Dani and ChanaMirian at their new place in Maale Amos and spent the afternoon with them and their kids. After all that we could not wait to get back to our home away from home at Yael and Ohad's house. We basically spent the rest of our time hanging there. I joined the gym with Yael. We went to the beach. We hung with the girls who are basically little people at this point. It's...