Mum at Bouddha with all of the prayer flags.Mum arrived safe to Nepal on Thursday, and we had an awesome time. There was a bandh (strike) on transportation one of the days, but we used that day to help move the vounteers into their new and improved home and play with the kids. We did the classics, visiting Bouddha, Thamel, Swoyambunath, Pashupati, and the Durbar Square. On Saturday we got to visit all the kids at Papa’s House (all 140-something now, and we witnessed the arrival of three new girls! It was soooo cute, everyone ran to the gate to cheer them in!) and deliver some books, two of my favorites from my childhood: Our World and Our Universe. They’re excellent books, and the kids immediately loved them. They also loved the photos Mum brought from home of the family--a lot of you are now famous in Nepal. We said our goodbyes on Sunday night, and I think that Mum is convinced already that she needs to come back… multiply that by four months, and you’ve got what I’m feeling.
Mum braiding the girls' hair before school. 
Helping out at Pashupati Ashram. The old lady was singing while Mum rubbed her head; it was pretty cool.
Some of the boys looking at the "Our World" book Mum brought.
Chillin at Papa's on my last Saturday with the kids.
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