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| This is not set for black and white |
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| Winter Wonderland |
GABBY - We woke up to a winter wonderland outside. There was already a good 2 feet on the ground
and the snow was still falling steadily and heavily. We took pictures from our balcony of the
scene before us. In the pictures it
looks like we set our cameras to the monochrome
setting of black and white, but it was just the contrast of the white snow and
the dark mountains, valleys and buildings.
Ben went downstairs to talk to the front desk, seeing as we were
planning on moving to the Tiger Eye in Old Manali today. Well, that certainly wasn’t going to happen. We were legitimately and officially snowed-in
in the Himalayas. There were no buses,
no cabs, and even no tuk-tuks that were braving the weather out there today,
despite the crazy mentality of many Indian drivers. Ben was informed by the dude at reception
that the entire valley had lost power during the night. The hotel did have a generator, but they said
that they would only turn it on sometimes and for not that long. They provided us with a space heater seeing
as we would be in our room for the majority of the day and would get pretty
cold. We discovered that space heater
had about a 12 inch heating radius, which was disappointing and pretty much
ineffective. Our day was spent playing
cards, sipping on red wine, writing, and watching movies (when the generator
provided us with electricity to charge it).
We took scalding hot showers, which felt nice but made me feel a bit queasy
afterwards. I laid down and took it easy
for the rest of the night, not having much of an appetite for dinner.
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