Hi you all!! I’m back with another blog post for you today about our COOL and exciting trip up the Annapurna! My day started off by waking up at 6:45 am and getting dressed/brushing teeth(you know, the usual, boring stuff). However, instead of starting to walk and going to breakfast two hours later, yesterday taught us a very important lesson: Be prepared! So we met with Ganesh and told us that the hike to our next destination was the same as day 1(spoiler alert: It actually was!) and that it shouldn’t be as difficult as the last two times. We ate our breakfast, which consisted of tasty Nepalese bread and an omelet, and started our hike for the third day in a row. Just so you know, I find this new method a lot easier than before because I felt rushed to the point where I couldn’t do much to prepare and felt like I always needed to move. Now though, I feel like I can enjoy breakfast in peace without being rushed or stressed, which is a very good way to start off a trek. We walked for two hours until reaching an apple orchard about one-third of the way to our destination. As I said in my last post, the apples here in Nepal taste amazing and the apples at the orchard were no exception to this sweet rule. Along our walk, we saw many cool things. There were many loose, iron bridges that we crossed. They were unstable and it added an extra sense of danger and excitement to the whole thing. Also, the wind was blowing very harshly to the point where I wore a sweatshirt because the wind kept giving me many goosebumps. Two hours later, we visited a small village that had a restaurant. We ate on the ROOF of the place where the view was amazing, but we got hit with a freezing cold😖❄. I forgot to tell you about one of the greatest foods we have had in Nepal: Nepalese bread. I can’t quite describe it, but it was like eating hardened Pita, which is a type of fried dough made usually in Israel. To give you a sense our how good it was, we are having it every day for breakfast! I ordered momos, a typical Nepalese dish, and once we were, we continued for another 2 hours. There was a group of hikers that are constantly playing loud music that disrupted the serenity of the mountain scene. It felt disrespectful to nature and the other hikers. We finally arrived at our destination and I ate rice🍚!!! We rested for the whole rest of the day and, personally, today was probably my favorite and most exciting day!

Chapter 8:

Chapter 8

It took Trixie and Bruno a long while to get to the top of Bear Peak, not because it was far away, but because they had to watch their backs to see if Pierre and Boris were following and because Trixie is very lazy and hates exercise. Once they finally reached the peak where Ella had left another hint that said, “It’s at the top. Get ready for the long climb!” Trixie started to sniffle and whine but Bruno poked her and she started to run up the mountain. It took them three hours to get to the top, but it was worth it as they got a spectacular view of Boulder and the fifth clue was stuck to a tree which read: “Yay! You did it! Now, look at your other clues and see if you can see the location of the sandwich!” The pets got the other four clues to decipher the secret. Bruno couldn’t find anything at first, but then he saw that the letters “c”, ”o”, ”o”, ”k”, ”i”, ”e”, ”j”, ”a”, and “r” were bolded. Wait, they spelled “cookie jar”!!! “That’s where it was located!” Bruno told Trixie and they rushed down the mountain toward their house.