P.S.

Today Mer and I went to this "basement" climbing gym and turns out: it's awesome. There are five bouldering walls within four rooms, some of which are connected. It costs a measly 200 rupees ($3) a day or 3000 rupees ($42) a year to climb there whenever you want. The manboy who owns/runs the place built it in his ancestral home. He must be rich because most Nepali's would need to rent or live in this space. Also, it's right in the middle of Patan (south of me) and the land value is shooting up up up there. He also said he has a "party" space upstairs and invited us to come hang out there after he finishes climbing a mountain he claims is harder to climb than Everest. Who knows.

Mer had never been climbing before so this is what she thought she would be doing:



We bouldered for about an hour and I pretended I knew what I was doing. Here's Mer knowing what she's doing:



Cute.