Hiking up the hill

Win some you lose some.. for some reason my email is working delightfully today, but this blog is not.. however, having gone through the interval of loading these pictures, I may as well post them, even if they are in somewhat random order.

This is actually from a couple of weeks ago, on one of the many national holidays. this one was for the 3rd kings birthday i think, so Baldra and Bod, the two Mongolians who are here to learn English, Jigme and Pema (their student "siblings") and I hiked up to a monastery high HIGH on the hill. We weren't allowed to take pictures inside, so you'll just have to imagine the shock of being at a good 6-8 hour walk from Paro (uphill) and walking inside the temple to find the largest statues of Buddha that I have ever seen! They were a good two stories tall!

And the monks were super friendly, the head lama always stops at Pema's mother's house on the way down to Paro, so he is a good family friend. So I finally had the courage to ask the little boy monks (very cute) if I could take their picture...