We have found out that the trick to climbing is to take small steps. The porters are slow but steady. The first few days we were fairly aggressive in our walking speed however we soon learned that we should take our time and take many small breaks while walking up the hills.  We often have to stop and hop off the side of the trail as a large yak train goes by. The four of us keep up a good pace and have not had any major issues so far on the trek. We all have slight colds from the weather chance except for Simon who stayed in Katmandu for a week before going on the trek. After a 7 hours hike we arrived in Thame and it was getting very cold and windy. We set up camp and the town had many rock fences and looked like Ireland.  When we arrived in Thame, it was a fairy new town.  When I say town, it probably puts the wrong mental view in everyone’s head.  The town is 4 or 5 houses set up as guest lodges for people doing the treks.  These lodges rent out plots of land for people doing tent camping.  The tent camping treks are actually more expensive that lodge treks, because you need the extra support staff in your group.  When we go up the trail our cook staff has gone ahead of us and is waiting for us half way up with lunch. So far the food has been much better than we had expected.  There were several baby Yaks next to us in a stone fenced in area.  We went over to see them and a small Nepalese boy came over and started to chase and play with the Yaks in the yard.  One of the baby Yaks ended up hopping over the rocky fence and ran down to the nearby river.  Shawna and I decided we should go back to camp before we got blamed for the missing Yak baby and did not want to have an international incident over the missing Yak.  We later learned the small boy lived in the lodge we were eating in, and soon learned that he was well known for his mischief in the small village.