Well, after waiting for months, the day finally came for us to fly to Nepal for a six week visit with family and friends. The last few trips that we had taken were either just the two of us or alone. However, having a 6 month old son this time around, we were not really sure how our travel would turn out to be like. We were in for a pleasant surprise, our son Saurya did really well traveling half the way around the world for 45 hours! He was content either sleeping or fiddling around with the TV remote controller on the plane. The airline gave us bulkhead seats and a bassinet for Saurya. He barely fit in the bassinet but was able to sleep several times for a couple of hours stretch each. He was so great on the flights that fellow passengers complimented us on such a well behaved and content infant.

We flew from Seattle to LA to Hong Kong and finally to Kathmandu. In LA our friends Jon and Jerrie and Alex met us at the airport for dinner, which was quite nice. The transit in Hong Kong was the longest at almost 13 hours, including a 2 hour delay due to bad weather there. When we got home it was well past midnight. Below are a few pictures from our flights and transits from Seattle to Kathmandu.

At Seatac Airport, about to leave rainy Seattle:

Saurya waiting for the flight to LA:

Sunrise somewhere over the Pacific, about 2 hours from Hong Kong. The flight from LA to Hong Kong was a staggering 14hrs 33mins long!!! The bulk head seats gave us plenty of legroom, however, it was still a brutal punishment for my tailbone. I do not understand why the economy class seats must be so hard. If I were to do this trip every year, I would surely have my tailbone surgically removed.

Saurya relaxing in his bassinet between naps, while I was watching an episode of Family Guy:

Lunch time in Hong Kong:

Well, it was 10AM in Hong Kong, but I figured it had to be 5 O’ Clock somewhere in the world!

Even at US $1=HGK $7.4, these were still fairly expensive wines! So I stuck to beer:

Ahhh.. Asahi beer:

We had been traveling for 26 hours by this time. Hard to tell from their faces huh? I was pretty impressed. I was more tired than either of them, coming off of a tough week at work:

A Cathay Pacific 777 lands at Hong Kong airport. We flew the same airline:

Saurya finds reflections in mirrors quite amusing:

Waiting for the last flight, the Dragon Air flight 102 to Kathmandu. This flight was delayed almost 2 hours:

Saurya relaxing at our home in Kathmandu the day after we got home!

Last week was really hectic, it was Christmas time for us, so we were all busy with festivities and feasts! Now I will go out on photographic trips in and around Kathmandu and try to post the pictures here on the blog. Internet here is really spotty, so I will do my best to update this blog as much as possible.

Pipe up and leave your comments and thoughts.

Keeping it real in Kathmandu-   Suraj