Town And It's Adventures

       So going to town really hasn’t been that exciting lately. We’ve had to go in many times because our outfits haven’t fit right, but that is just annoying, it doesn’t make our trips to town exciting. Today was an exciting day! Chantel and I needed to get passport pictures taken for our Nepal visas. We found out this could happen in Hili, so that was our first and only stop with a translator. This picture place looked a little sketch. I am very glad we had Shuma with us to translate! We found out that four pictures cost 45 taka, which is a ridiculously good price, it’s not even $1 USD. In America you have to pay at least $5 for two! Anyway, the front room of the place was tiny and mostly filled with a desk on which sat a computer and equipment and which three guys were sitting behind. They told us to go through a door which led to another room. This room had only a stool (where we sat), a chair (where the photographer sat), and two photographer like lights (which were extremely bright!). Chantel took hers first. They are very specific with how they have these pictures, your head has to be perfectly straight and no smiles. Well they told us no smiles at first, but Chantel could not keep a straight face, so the photographer gave up on that!! When we were both done, we were told ten minutes, then Shuma told us that is really twenty minutes because they are Bengali!! lol

       After that Chantel and I separated from Mrs. Waid, Kerri, and the children they brought with them. We went on our own to the tailor to retrieve our outfits and then we went wondering to find the other stuff on our list. It really was fun. We didn’t go anywhere new, but we learned that we really did know our way around Hili. We first wondered around the clothes shops and stopped in a nice one to look at shawls. We both found a couple we liked and got them. Then we wondered around more.

        When we had first got to town we saw an elephant. Well we again saw this elephant as we were wondering; another little one had joined it, so we decided to wonder towards them. I had forgotten how small Asian elephants are until I saw these elephants, they were cute! When we got close to the elephants, their trunks came towards us and so we petted them. Chantel got some elephant snot on her hand and jacket! Then the men that were leading them wanted some taka, but we weren’t going to pay for having elephants sniff us, so we tried to walk away. However we were situated in such a way that the elephants had trapped us practically. We had to jump over the sewer in order to get away from them. It was definitely an adventure!