Trek day 2: Rain rain go away!

We awoke this morning bright and early for breakfast and then headed out for our first full day of trekking!  In the morning light we were able to see the full extent of the two waterfalls surrounding our hotel.  The sight was beautiful, and fortunately dad managed to get a few pictures before the fog rolled in.  Today's trek would be mostly up!  In all we traveled 5. miles and gained almost a mile in elevation!  In all we were told that we traveled 3500 steps!  These steps were all stone and I can't imagine how long it must have taken to pave the entire trail!  My dad equated our trip to being taller then the empire state building.  I'm quite certain that I have never done that many stairs all at one time, every time that I hoped to be finished with the sets of stairs they continued to climb up and up ahead of me!  The only thing that made the steps worse was the rain that set in...starting not long after we left the lodge with a drizzle and picking up to a very steady pour.  At first this seemed nice because it took off some of the heat of climbing, but after a few hours of this I was soaked to the bone!  From this point we still had 3-4 more hours of up hill in the rain :(. By he time we stopped for lunch we were only about an hour away from out next hotel, but the rest was very welcomed and some food in me before traveling was a nice idea too!  The lunch was good, noodles and tea, but I drank the tea too fast and was half frozen from my wet clothes well before we left.  Because of the chill I was more then happy to tackle the up hill battle to our lodge, even with the rain coming down outside.  This last hour flew by, maybe because half of it I was pushing forward at a good pace just to warm up...and also probably because I wanted to get out of my soaked clothes!  
At last!! Finally to our lodge...no hot water at this one either, but there was a fire and once out of my soaked clothes and into my patron pants the though of a hot shower was even put out of my head!  I wrung the water out of my socks and underwear (quite a bit o water actually!!). And wrapped myself up in my sleeping bag with my slightly soaked book to warm up more!
This first full day of trekking was kinda lame because of the rain, but mostly because all of the amazing views I knew I was missing :(. Probably could have had a similar experience in Oregon, but hopefully it'll clear tomorrow!! If so we'll wake up early to catch the sun rise over the Annapurna range...if not...a bead start in the rain to our next lodge!! Time will tell!