while the girls were away.

christina and dechen took off for the netherlands for two weeks of stroop-waffles, family and heineken... that left me to an empty-lonely house, so the only way to cope was getting into the hills for some hiking. myself and two woodstock colleagues headed up to harkidun, around a 7 hour drive north of here and spent a few days wandering. it was great to get away, to see the amazing villages and we even got hit with a snow storm!

titu with harkidun in the background

carvings on top of a temple

another ornately carved temple

kutty and titu on the trail back under fresh snow

the village of gangar, where we were snowed in two winters ago with greg

the girls are home now, pretty amazing how much that little one grew in two weeks!

i also wrote an article for our school website on our trip, the link is http://woodstockschool.in/News/Spring2010/April/100405.htm