Jaimasee, and welcome to our first days in Nepal!
Before going through an explanation of the last four days, it should be emphasized that today is a very special day for a number of reasons. First off, today marks our first blog post in the wonderful land of Nepal. Second, we are going to our first international church service today (having gone to a Nepali church service with the Vanlals yesterday), and are very excited about that. Perhaps the most interesting reason of all, however, is the Nepali national Holiday called Holi day, oddly enough.
Although Julie and I are still trying to understand the occasion, I'll tell you what I know about it. Theologically speaking, the day is celebrating the day that a particularly important devout Hindu man vanquished an evil spirit, named Holika. What it boils down to practically speaking, however, is that today is a day to grab water balloons, squirt guns filled with dyed water, and fistfuls of powdered dye and hurl them at whoever you see! Sounds more like a good excuse to have a nation-wide water fight, but that shows what little I know. Either way, it should make for some very interesting pictures later - wish us luck with that, by the way. Julie seems to think we can make it out without too much harm to our clothing, but I have my doubts.
Well, I promised pictures when we got here, and pictures you shall have! We'll start with a send-off with Julie and my parents.
Having sent our parents off after a wonderful visit, we made the way ourselves to the airport.
And then, after an airport shower and about 7 more hours of travel time, we made it to our wonderful apartment!
Julie 'Vanna White'-ing our bed, mirror, and some of the desk.
Showing off the mondo storage set-up we have!
Relaxing around our sitting area.
Me being happy to have a good ol' fashioned American toilet!
Our fickle shower.
And a lovely view from our window to top it all off.
Thank you so much for your prayers! We will make sure to write again soon. We love you so much, and are blessed by your support, even in just reading and following this blog! More for later!
February 27, 2010 at 8:00 PM
Looks like a nice apartment! Do you have a kitchen?
Love the view!
February 27, 2010 at 11:22 PM
Wonderful! So exciting! Thanks for inviting us inside your place today. Could we have some refreshments next time? :-)
Love you both so much!
Mom
February 28, 2010 at 4:42 PM
That was great, and so are you. We love you more than we can say. God is good, all the time.
March 1, 2010 at 11:56 PM
I love the blog! and the picture taken from your window is beautiful!
Were praying for you both! Have and amasing trip! I know God will use you in a big way in Nepal and he will use Nepal in a big way in your lives
- Katie & Aaron
March 2, 2010 at 6:20 AM
Mollie says hi you guys! We are proud of you.
March 2, 2010 at 7:53 AM
i like your apartment!! it looks different then on the webcam haha. and im totally jaelous of your toilet but im not complaining!! haha i love you guys and im praying for you!
March 3, 2010 at 8:35 AM
You guys are so great. God is so great. We miss you but are so excited for how the Lord is working!
March 9, 2010 at 12:00 AM
What? No squattie? :)
That last shot of the sun setting in the city is lovely though! Praying for you both and looking forward to more updates.
Faith, Nathan, and all the crazies.