There were a couple good rapids and everyone went swimming at least once accidentally. My entire side of the raft got dumped when a shallow rock stopped us instead of bouncing us around - it was pretty scary as it was just upstream from the days biggest rapids, but it was shallow enough so that I could keep myself and one of the girls from drifting too fast and after a few minutes the raft was able to catch up to us.

We had an early lunch and then rafted another thirty minutes to Bimalnagar (the take out point). We had to wait ninety minutes for the bus, so it was shortly after two by the time we were on our way. There was a short ride to a small town where almost everyone transferred to a bus going to Pokhara (all the guides and kayakers and seven of the rafters). It was kind of sad. There were just five of us on the bus for the long ride back to Katmandu. The road was painfully slow and we got stopped for almost an hour at an avalanche. We finally got in to Katmandu just before eight. I was a little surprised to be able to get a room at the Kathmandu Guesthouse and had a fantastic shower. After quickly checking my email (there wasn't much as my account had run out of disk space and started refusing mail) I met up with the others (Chris, Bairbre, Ang, and Cara) for diner. Everyone was understandably tired so we broke up pretty early. I tried to work on my journal but couldn't keep my eyes open.