Gef and Gif, go on this trip...

Early one morning Gif and Gef set out on their moon trip. After a short fly and a train ride and a jeep drive, they reached the town closest to Kanchenjunga, the second tallest peak of the world. Gangtok was full of cheeky people who had slitty eyes and puggy noses but dressed remarkably despite the chill. All the girls had the most shining hair in the country, Gif and Gef together watched them while they walked about with shining hair and high heels. Their culture was funny, not the stupid kind of funny, but more like the fun-type of funny... I doubt you'd get what am trying to say, but thats just it, their culture was funny. Take for instance the way they greeted Gif and Gef. They wound cream silk scarves round their necks and gave them yummy red wine to drink. So you see it was funny and a lot of fun!

Gif and Gef took lots of photos at the monasteries and took in buddhist ideas of spiritualism and mystery. Buddhism as a religion in itself seemed surreal to them. The stories seemed well quite a story, tough to believe. And yet here were scores praying with utmost trust and belief in those very stories. Gif and Gef pondered on that deeply while they took the ropeway ride across the town. The ropeways seemed to be message bodies being exchanged between the mighty mountains. The ropes were thankfully strong enough to not lose the message deep down into the valley.

Gif and Gef went to the border. Now this was no silly border though the concept seemed infinitely so to the mighty mountains surrounding the border. It was the border respected and nurtured by the yellowed skinned men and women on one side and the brown skinned men and women on the other. While Gif and Gef shook hands and exchanged chocolates with both the brown skinned men gaurding the border and the yellow skinned ones, Gef developed a silly kind of neckish-fever. Neckish because it all started with a vague stiffening of the neck and then temperature increasing all over his body. Gif poked jokes hoping that by their descent he'd be swell again. But the neckish fever took to Gef for the rest of the day :( So when they went on that Yak ride by the frozen Tsangu lake atop the Himalayas, Gif half-giggled in mirth and half-worried to death for Gef and Gef barely sat clutching his wife!

Gif and Gef went on long walks by the view points and tried to click the sunrise in motion against the Kanchenjunga. They had silly fights by the coffee shop at Tashi. They snuggled tightly by the fireplace in Nor-Khill. They confessed to extreme stupidities and prided in their achievements. They ate like they possessed rubber stomachs and drank like there was no tomorrow. They sang and they danced while the snow fell about them. They revelled in each other's company and celebrated love, finally :)