Date Night Manali-Style

Checklist

Ambience
Full moon
One day cricket - Austalia v India
Kulla hat
Scarf
Armritsar bus station 200 rupiah check shirt

Pre Dinner Snacks
Pepsi Vintage 2013
Crisps
Yak cheese
Kashmiri apricots
Haldiram's nuts

Dinner upstairs in the hotel dhaba (restaurant)
Booth seats facing the television, remote control and the gallery of hotel boys
Australia wins the cricket with a 6 on the fourth last ball of the last over
Plastic plates
Pink lentil (malka) dahl
Jeera aloo (cumin potatoes)
Plain rice

After dinner
Deluxe room at The Apple Bud Cottages
Chocolate
Cup of tea
2 sleeping bags, 1 blanket
6 degrees C
TV movie
... and we're done.

But we are in The Himalayas and wake up to this every morning.