{"id":3157,"date":"2015-08-31T08:02:24","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T12:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=3157"},"modified":"2015-08-24T16:06:24","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T20:06:24","slug":"the-himalayas-were-breathtaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/the-himalayas-were-breathtaking\/","title":{"rendered":"The Himalayas Were Breathtaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-13\" src=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/j-avatar.png\" alt=\"by jen\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/>warm my numb fingers<\/li>\n<li>to meet a yeti<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Don&#8217;t you appreciate my cuisine?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8212; all those beautiful bullfrogs<\/li>\n<li>threatening face of a Doberman<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Himalayas were breathtaking in the moonlight, but even colder than I anticipated. I rubbed my hands together over the fire to <em>warm my numb fingers<\/em>. This was the vacation of a lifetime, and while many in my group were here to climb Everest, I had a different objective:<em> to meet a yeti<\/em>. Tomorrow we would hike to base camp, after which we would go our separate ways. That meant a celebratory feast this evening, with plenty of food prepared by the tour company&#8217;s French chef.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Don&#8217;t you appreciate my cuisine?&#8221;<\/em> grumbled Henr\u00ed. &#8220;I brought the ingredients all the way from Marseilles packed in dry ice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I, along with my fellow hikers, stared at the display of grisly drumsticks, the webbed feet still intact. I don&#8217;t know what the rest of them were thinking, but I could not get rid of the image of the frogs they&#8217;d come from <em>&#8212; all those beautiful bullfrogs<\/em>\u00a0slaughtered for their meaty little thighs.<\/p>\n<p>I was hungry though, so I grabbed one of the frog legs and took a tentative bite. Before the flavor could register, a creature bounded into our camp.\u00a0It was a\u00a0large, hairy white biped\u00a0with the<em> threatening face of a Doberman<\/em>. Well, the teeth of a Doberman anyway.<\/p>\n<p>It\u00a0could only be the yeti I&#8217;d come to see!<\/p>\n<p>It plucked the frog leg from my hand and sniffed it, then shoved the whole thing in its mouth, bones and all. Such a majestic creature! I managed to get my camera out and begin filming as it gorged itself on the rest of Henr\u00ed&#8217;s feast. When it loped off into the night I had to make a quick decision. Would I return home to sell my footage, or would I follow the beast into its forbidding mountain home?<\/p>\n<p>bonus points for using them in order!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Stichomancy Writing Prompts\" href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/stichomancy-writing-prompts\/\">about stichomancy writing prompts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/stichomancy-writing-prompt-generator\/\">try our stichomancy writing prompt generator!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>warm my numb fingers to meet a yeti &#8220;Don&#8217;t you appreciate my cuisine?&#8221; &#8212; all those beautiful bullfrogs threatening face of a Doberman The Himalayas were breathtaking in the moonlight, but even colder than I anticipated. I rubbed my hands together over the fire to warm my numb fingers. 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