Only 5 more days!

It is incredible that I am only 5 days away from the biggest adventure of my life. It's like an out of body experience when I start to talk about it with anyone and let me tell you I'm telling everyone now. Before this week I would talk to people about it when they would ask me but now I find myself bringing into every conversation. I was in wal-mart trying to find another memory card for my camera and the sales associate walked up to unlock it for us he hadn't even said anything when I just blurted out that I was going to Nepal and that is why I needed so much memory for my camera. He was stoked! He gave me a fist pound and told me that I was awesome! Let me tell you I felt really awesome!

This weekend has been really great actually, my family and I went camping! I know... why on earth did I go camping a week before I'm going to be backing for a month in the Himalayas? It was worth it though even though family bonding can happen anywhere there is something special about being stuck somewhere together. My parents had gotten a "new" 1970's motorhome complete with shag carpeting and wanted to take it out on its first trip. We didn't bring any extra cars so once are camp was set so were we, which made us hang out the whole time. We went on a family hike that was a good 4 miles and I felt on top of the world and we were no higher than 7000 ft, so I can only imagine how I will feel in the mountains in Nepal. Of course we stopped for a few photo ops on top of the hill we climbed and my brother and I climbed a tree together. I feel better knowing that I did something like this with my family before leaving them for a month, just makes me feel closer to them. It did snow on our camping trip which was not expected, we had planned to go somewhere warm and changed plans last minute so instead we got snow! Waking up to snow on the ground when I had packed shorts and flip flops was not a great feeling but it certainly made it an adventure. I am feeling less and less nervous about going to Nepal and more and more excited, I feel more ready than ever! I just can't wait to get over there it feels like it has been an eternity since I found out I was going and now it is only 5 days away...It's crazy how time works like that, but I know as soon as I get there it will fly by so I'm enjoying waiting and experiencing every moment.