What’s up what’s up! I’m back with another radical blog post on the first day of our Annapurna expedition! I left off last time by describing our first 2 days in Kathmandu and what thinking about what might happen during this adventure. Well, now I am on that very adventure that I’ve been wanting to go on since I was small!šš Yes, I did climb Kilimanjaro, but this trek will last up to fourteen days while the last trek was only six days. Also, the environment is different and there seem to be more people than Kilimanjaro. We started off today by waking up at 4:00 am, which, thankfully, is the most boring and dull part of today. We got dressed, brushed teeth, and did all that stuff before meeting Ganesh and driving off to the mountains. So note that from this point on, we are going to be living in huts and that today was the last day where we had good service and reception before the trek was up, so I have mixed feelings about this. The rest of our day consisted of driving to the location, but some interesting stuff happened along the way. We stopped at a cafe on the mountain that has a very nice view of a lake. There were two very cute puppies there that we petted a lot and they are very sweet. They kind of reminded me of my cousin’s new dog, Chloe. They’re both very young, playful, and they even look the same. It made me miss Israel a little bit and realize how big Chloe will be the next time we see her. I had a very good pancake there that looked like some ordinary dough but actually tasted pretty good. After that, we drove to a village called Beni Shahar. We switched jeeps while we were there and got a new driver. We drove for some time before reaching a very peculiar construction site. There was a massive traffic jam of jeeps that blocked us from moving forward and there was another line preventing us from moving backward. We got out of the jeep to get a closer look and we saw construction workers implanting a pipe into the ground! Surprisingly, it didn’t take them long to finish implanting the pipe, but it was really interesting to see the construction process and how everyone around us reacted to the scene. After the experience, we continued forward to our first stop on this journey. We went to a small settlement called Syange, where we spent the rest of the day and played a delightful game of UNO. Dinner was also good and late at night, we slept for the mighty trek ahead of us.
Chapter 5 of”The Legendary Sandwich: A Trixie and Bruno Tail “:
Chapter 5
āAre we there yet? Iām hungry. Huuuuuuuuuuunnnnnnnnggggggrrrrrrrrrryyyyyyyy!!!!!ā Trixie whined at the poor cat trying to find the school.
āQuiet! We donāt want Pierre and Boris to find us, although theyāre probably already onto us. But thatās no excuse!ā Bruno whispered back to the clueless dog. āDogsā he sighed before he finally found the school. The building was basically a gigantic hallway with brick walls from the outside. Unfortunately, it was secured at the front door was locked and there was no way in, or so Bruno thought before he looked up and saw an open window. Bruno did the impossible and lifted Trixie up to the window and she climbed into the school in ten seconds. Bruno followed her in and closed the window to make sure that no one else would come in.
As he made his way inside, Bruno realized that they were in the school auditorium because the entire room was filled with rows of black, identical chairs and there was a high ceiling. Suddenly, the pets heard a clamper of feet heading their way and the pets had to hide somewhere safe. Dozens of students arrived and sat on the seats, where Bruno was hiding underneath one. Trixie was hiding next to him. The lights dimmed and a film started to play on the auditorium screen. Bruno saw this as an opportunity to escape as he whispered to Trixie to follow him and escape the crowd of kids. They quietly snuck out of the auditorium and they located a janitor cart with a towel covering part of it. They climbed into the cart, with the towel keeping them hidden. They were there only a few seconds when the janitor came and began pushing the cart around the school.
While Trixie and Bruno were being wheeled around the school on the janitorās cart, Pierre and Boris found the school, following the petsā scent. āAt last, we have located the pets and the location of the second clue. Now, we just need to find a way inside the school.ā Pierre stated with an evil grin. As he looked around, he found the window that the pets went through, but it was shut courtesy of Bruno. He found a sewer hole, but it was too small for Boris to fit in and probably didnāt lead to the right place. āBoris, help me find a way in,ā Pierre said. The two searched for a little bit before finding a large enough window slightly opened on a side of the library that they could get through.
The cart traveled slowly around the school. It stopped in classrooms and dirty bathrooms before finally reaching the library. Bruno expected to find nothing, but on the highest point of the tallest shelf, Bruno spotted another clue stuck to the wall! āOk Trixie, you stay in here while I get the clue from the shelf ok?ā Bruno whispered to his sister. She just snored in response but Bruno clamped her mouth shut before anyone heard. There was also a class in the library, so Bruno had to put his bunny-hunting skills to the test in order to make it to the top of the shelf and back without being seen or heard.
Bruno, like a ninja, darted across the room in a second. If someone had seen him, they would have only seen a blur. Bruno hid behind one of the bean-bag chairs on the floor in order not to be seen. There were many of them on the floor that could hide a big animal like Boris. Bruno then darted and hid behind a bookshelf. The teacher thought she saw something, but ignored it and went back to teaching the class. Bruno faced the side of the shelves with books and thought about how he could make it to the top without being seen. With the first clue still attached to his arm and the map in the cart with Trixie, Bruno climbed up the shelf with extreme caution. It took him ten seconds to climb up to the top of the shelf, but he made it up with no casualty, unlike Trixie. Or, Bruno thought so.
As Bruno stuck the second clue on his arm and started to climb down, a white blur darted up the bookshelf, knocking down many books with a loud thud, and pinned Bruno down. The blur was Pierre; he had been hiding behind a chair the whole time and now he was trying to take both of the clues from Brunoās arm. Bruno fought back as the two cats engaged in a brief battle that was interrupted when the teacher grabbed a ruler and started to swat both cats. To make matters worse, Bruno looked at the cart where Trixie had just woken up and saw Boris come out of the shadows and push the cart away into the hallway, with the map and Trixie still in it.
Bruno successfully dodged the teacherās swats and punched Pierre off of the bookshelf where he was beaten and swatted repeatedly by the teacher. Then, Bruno did a high ninja jump over the teacher and ran into the hall after Boris while everyone was watching in awe. Bruno caught up to the dog and swatted him with his paw, claws out. Boris fell down and let go of the cart as Bruno got on the top of it. Pierre ran past his fallen comrade and jumped onto the cart where Bruno was. The two engaged in a highly dramatic fight on top of the moving vehicle while on the bottom shelf, Trixie was fantasizing about the sandwich. Unfortunately, the two cats never finished the fight as the cart was heading towards a large window at the end of the hallway. The cart crashed into the window and the cart and all three of its passengers flying out of it into the rocky, tree-covered terrain beneath them.
