Trek day 1: Kathmandu and away!

We started the day early to go out to Durbar square before we flew out to pokara.  The square was filled sry many shrines and was all a bustle because of a festival that was going to take place there later that day.  The festival was for the kumari which is a living goddess for the people.  This was the one day in the year where she came out of her house and was paraded around! Sadly we would miss this because we would be trekking...but the square was bumpin!  From there we zipped over to the airport and got onto a small porp plane...infact it was so small that the roof only allowed me to stay bent half way over.  The flight was only 20 mins, so up and down, then we hopped into a van to drive to the start of our trek!  The start of point had quite a bit less pomp than I was expecting...just a bunch of food shacks along the road and a set of stairs into a village we passed through...but we were on our way!! 9 days total...and we wouldn't see a car for over a week from now...the longest I've been on any hike thing...
We had our guide with us and also a porter to carry the pack with all of the stuff my dad and I had.  At first I felt bad for our porter, but then I realized that he could probably beat me up the mountain with that pack on!!  While mostly up hill, it wasn't that bad and the view was amazing!! Wonderful green terraced fields along the mountain side. At one point we came across a 5 tier waterfall cascading down the area!  This was going to be an amazing 9 days!  After about 3-4 hours of walking we came upon the lodge we were staying over for the the night and it was much more like a hotel the I was expecting!  I guess I was imaging a hut or something in the open :p. There was even a bathroom and shower...though after some testing we discovered the hit water didn't work...oh well I've gone over a week with out a shower before and hell this was a Himalayan trek!!  The lodge was also nestled between two water falls is quite a magnificent location!  That night we were to fall asleep to the sound of water flowing...tomorrow our first full day of trekking!