Happy Holidays! and indulge me one more time to say how thankful I am for the great experiences I had this year and the fun I have had writing about them in this blog. Ok, indulging over. This is the time of year when we come together and share our sincerest pneumonia and head colds with our close family and friends. I was on my way for travel plans to visit my parents in Washington earlier this week, but as I couldn’t manage more than lumbering to the bathroom for some nausea, I was grounded and wiped out until now. It was refreshing news to get an email from Pema this morning from Kathmandu. We’ve been a little concerned since we hadn’t gotten a reply since we left from out trekking trip to Nepal at the end of October, but he says he’s been busy high up in the Khumbu working on his lodge.