Sonia for Sarah:
"Nov 11, 2021 Dingboche, Nepal 7:47am
Yesterday someone told me I was making this all sound too easy and they wanted the real deal. I'll give you this but this is all little stuff that I'm really just literally taking in stride. But here is what I told her yesterday:
- I'm not sore at all (of course this changed as some hip soreness bugged me last night). Just taking the treks slow and steady.
- You'd hate the toilets and I have to carry toilet paper everywhere because most bathrooms don't have it. (Also you aren't supposed to flush toilet paper, so it goes in a bucket...plus, you never know when you may need it roadside!)
- Bedrooms are not heated.
- I've worn the same pants for 3 days now. I have 2 clean shirts left for the rest of the trip only because I've reworn the others at least twice, already rewearing socks.
So that's my quick and dirty of the behind the scenes stuff.
Trek to Dingboche
We left Tengboche and came across a woman holding a child. They were more than happy to interact. Always great to be able to have these interactions.
We also have a goofball, Travis, in our group as we came around the corner of the trail. We're a bunch of goofballs and all the laughs are such a great part of this adventure.
Next up was another suspension bridge. Gold star to whoever counts up how many of these we've crossed so far!
The mountain views on this trek are endless and we could see Ama Dablam getting closer over this leg.
One of the little villages I came across this little girl. I took one pic but put my phone down and spent a couple minutes with her. Such a sweet moment that made my heart smile.
Amanda had a great eye and caught this sticker inside a doorway from The Weary Traveller in Madison! How neat is that?!
So now this yak attack...there were yaks that came down of the mountain and decided they wanted to do the trail with us...sort of. They didn't want to move. Check out what happened:
It was a little scary and after a lot of hilarious!
Next up we arrived in Dingboche, first stop....HEAT!!!
Yesterday our hike took us above the tree line. That leaves little to block the wind so an extra layer was needed. Note the trees disappear:
A couple of us went out and walked around town for a bit. Lots of stone fences, minimal buildings, and many people leave this village in December until weather warms up and tourism returns.
I found peanut butter at a market! For some reason I've been craving it. I didn't buy it...yet - haha!
Here's a pic of a market we stopped at, just a mix of everything!
Next up was sunset. The color was just spectacular to see with my own eyes.
Sunset on Ama Dablam
Sunset on Lhotse
Another cool thing...I took this photo thinking it was clouds rolling in. Turns out it wasn't clouds. There was an avalanche and it was snow.
Next up we were waiting to go out at 10pm to check out the stars. Absolutely STUNNING!! On top of that I was finally able to capture night sky with my phone. I'm a cell phone photographer and all my pics are done on my Samsung Galaxy S21 (basic model). Still plenty of room to improve but I'm impressed with these:
Night sky w/ Ama Dablam
Jupiter shining bright
Oh, I forgot to mention that while waiting for 10pm to roll around I learned how to play a Nepali card game called Dhumbal. A few of us hung out in the dining room and played it for a while. I need to write down the rules before I forget. I've got another gold star for anyone who can put the rules in the comments on this post!
Today we hike up Nangkartshang Peak to 16,677 ft. That's 2,207 ft of elevation gain. We'll come back to here for the night. As we stand right now, before today's hike here are our stats I added up last night!
We're two days away from sunset at Kala Pattar. Y'all will be probably still be sleeping with sunset being about 5pm here.
Base camp is 3 days away.
Any thoughts, prayers, positive energy you can send would be appreciated. The hardest, most amazing part, is yet to come.
Lots of love to you all!!
-Sarah"
The dealer deals 5 cards to each player anti-clockwise. The minimum number of players required is 2 and maximum is 5, but sometimes 6 or 7 players can also play, with certain house rules. The Dealer turns is taken in anti-clockwise direction.
ReplyDeleteThe goal is to reduce the total count in the hand to 5 or less. Ace is one, two is two, etc., and all cards over 10 is counted 10.
The hand-count can be lessen by lessening the number of cards, by discarding the following sequence cards: pairs, trips, quads and straight flushes of 3 or more cards.
If no sequence cards are in the hand, the player can discard any one card.
After the sequence cards are discarded, the player withdraws a card from the deck, or from the last discarded card. The player must withdraw one and only one card. In his turn, the player cannot pass the turn. i.e., he must discard card(s) or declare a Jhyap. This continues until a player has a hand-count of 5 or less, then he declares a jhyap and if no one counter jhyaps, gets x or no score for that hand. All other players gets score of their hand-count. If no cards are left in the deck, then there is no Jhyap. Everyone gets a score of their hand-count.
If the player who Jhyapped is counter-jhyapped, 25 points is added to his count and added to the game score. i.e., if he has a count of 3 when he jhaypped, and someone else counter jhyapped him with 3 or less, he gets 28 for that hand.
The cards are dealt again for several hands, until all players get out by scoring 100 points. The player who stands until the last wins the game of jhyap. i.e., the only player who does not reach 100 wins.
I love reading these! You are doing so great, sis! Keep it up girl!!
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