December 28, 2000 - December 13, 2001 14 Days in Nepal Tengboche
Here's another picture Andrea wanted me to take. This is some sort of prayer wheel that feeds off the water from the stream. The stream flows past the bottom of the wheel and that in turn, causes the prayer wheel to begin spinning. What was interesting was that these things were seemingly in the middle of nowhere. They obviously took some time to build, but they were all alone in the mountains. It looks pretty old, but it's hard to tell. As an aside, it was nice finding thigs to take pictures of because that meant we got to have a rest!
	Here's a picture of some prayer arch or something. We wanted our Sherpa to get out of the way, but I don't think he understood. And he was the one who "spoke" English. He's also the one who invited us out to play pool that night at Namche. He's also the one who asked for a 500 Rupee advance to bet while playing pool. He's also the one who lost his money playing pool. That was really bizarre. We were in some bar and they were playing Dire Straits and Bob Marley while people drank and played pool. Andrea and I just warmed up by the fire. We were like, "Where are we?!" He was a nice guy though. I called him "Chachi", but not to his face. Only Andrea knew his real name.
Here's a very interesting picture. This was taken once we finally got to Tengboche. We relaxed for a while, had some lunch, and took some pictures before we decided to make our way back. Anyway, if you look at the mountains towards the upper left of the picture, you will notice a black speck. This speck was not on any other photos I took, so it wasn't dirt on the camera. It also couldn't have been a plane or helicopter because we were nowhere near any airports. And plus, the angle the object is at is very suspect. I'm not sure what it was, but look at it zoomed in and judge for yourself.
	Tengboche was great because we had such a great view of the entire range. And the land was flat, almost like we were on some sort of plateau, so it was a perfect place to take pictures. This picture shows Everest on the left, Amadablam on the right, and even the little area where we had lunch. I ate a lot of soup while I was there. I liked ordering potato soup and a side of rice. Then I'd dump the rice into soup to create my super-hearty grog. All of our meals were relatively inexpensive, just a couple bucks here and there.

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