Groundhog Day

In many of the tourist shops in Kathmandu they sell a t-shirt that says "Same Same...but different". That pretty well sums up today.

We feels like we are in the movie "Groundhog Day". We got up, and headed to the airport for the third time, past the same cows at the side of the road, past the same dog lying in the middle of the intersection, past the same street hawkers, and pushed our way through the crowd (we are getting better at it) to get to the ticket booth and then waited for our plane to be called.
Today the weather was sunny and clear in Kathmandu and our porters, who are patiently waiting in Lukla, said the weather was also good there. However, by the time our 10:30 flight was ready to leave (at about 2:30), the winds had picked up and the airport in Lukla temporarily stopped accepting flights and eventually closed down at 4 pm. So, since we arrived in Kathmandu our daily experience has been sitting at the airport from about 8 am to 4 pm munching on spicy cheese puffs and drinking malasa tea and commiserating with other disgruntled travellers .

What we have realized is that the flights run way behind schedule, the earlier flights seem to get out each day, and the later flights are essentially on standby. Today, we raised a bit of a fuss with the airline manager and he has "guaranteed" us that we will be on the second flight tomorrow.
We shall see..