Ministry and travel documents.....

So yesterday we were told to be in the lobby around 10 to go get the girls travel documents from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. After breakfast we go ready, Sujina went to sleep but Paul, Elizabeth, Clay and Diptee went down to the lobby. At 11:30 they were all back up here. They told me that they had learned that there was a transportaion strick and that all the hired vehicles were not supposed to be working. That meant that we woulld not be able to go to our appointments nor would we be able to get Sujina's travel doc and this would set up back going to the Embassy. We have an appointment for 1:30 on Monday.

(Paul and Sujina are getting dressed. It is funny to hear him talking to her about wearing tights, and pretty shirts etc....)

So instead of sitting around the room all day we decided to go out for another adventure. Mr. Tamata told Elizabeth that Raja Kumar would call us around 3pm to tell us about our paper work.

So we set out to Thamel and Durbar Square. We wanted to show Elizabeth and Clay where we were on Sat. We walked and shopped and walked and shopped, there were very few cars or motorcycles on the road and besides it putting us behind in paperwork it was great for walking around.

We saw soem young guys playing Parcheezi, they told Paul he could play for 20$, they were very cheeky. Little did they know that Paul plays with the Wilson Family so he could probably take them!
Paul bought a very cool wool coat and I bought a very cool diaper bag, some earrings for my mom and some overalls for Sujina. It was a good shopping day. We went back to the pizza place and ate.

It was close to 3 so we decided to get back to the hotel to see what was going on. You know Murphy's Law, when you told one thing the opposite thing comes true.

We walked back to the hotel and when we came in the door Raj Kumar was there out of breath saying " I have been looking for you!,we must go now because the Ministry wil close." What??? we were told no taxi etc.... well I guess for tourist they make exceptions. In fact ther were many people at our hotel that were waiting of a way to get to the airport. There was a large bus that came around to all of the hotels and picked us tourist to take them to the airport. The bus had a big sign that said Tourist only. I guess people get very upset if the taxi drivers dont obey the stricks and will put up blockades or ever shoot at them. Yikes.....

We got a little and I mean little taxi to take the six of us to the Ministry, and we were able to get Sujina's travel documents (passport). It was very anti climatic once we got there. The other bad news about the strick was that with out all of the other cars on the road the taxi's and motorcycles could go extra fast! Not fun. We felt like the clowns at the circus, the little car that has about 25 clowns get out of the tiny car.

We then drove to the Doctors office, but that is a different story.... breakfast is calling....