Happy 2009!

I'm still in Kathmandu with Cara! It looks like she will be finished replacing the required visas for India and Nepal today, meaning we should be heading back to meet back up with Jamey and Anthony either today today or tomorrow depending on the bus schedule to the border town.

Cara and I had a low key New Year's celebration. We spent the morning in our hotel room watching movies (three to be exact but who is counting...) and eventually ventured out to get some sweets (we've become experts on the bakeries in this area). We're staying in the tourist area of Thamel, which was packed and smelled of BBQ (which now reminds us of the smell of burning human bodies because we visited Pashupati, a Hindu temple where people cremate the dead on the side of a river and anyone can watch.) so we headed back to our hotel where we spent the rest of the evening trying to beg for food from the group of Indians staying at our hotel. We successfully received a small plate each of curry and Cara had the misfortune of witnessing the cook dump the rest of the curry in the trash can without offering the rest to us. What a shame.

On a side note, I made it into a "Best 25 Music Videos of 2008" list. Last December I helped work as a production assistant for a New Pornographers' music video. Half way through production, Kurt Braunohler, the director and star of the video, and Kristen Schaal, also the star of the video, asked if I'd like to put on a unicorn suit and be in the video. I couldn't say no. The video, which is called "Mutiny, I Promise You" is half-way down the list, which is linked at the beginning of this paragraph and also here, where you can watch other videos from Kurt and Kristen's video series "Penelope Princess of Pets", which I also helped out on and make a cameo appearance in episode 7 (roughly 2 minutes and 18 seconds into the episode...). Just for the record, in the music video I am the unicorn at the beginning of the video, I'm not the unicorn that is dancing with the band.

I hope everyone had an enjoyable New Year's Eve and wish you all the best for 2009!