Saturday, it was still snowing when we woke up, we had breakfast and started hiking at 8:30, boys still wearing their shorts! It was a short hike to Dingboche (4400m), we arrived at 11:00 but our bags in our room and had lunch, we played cards as normal. At 14:00 the ground started to tremble, Laura thought it was just a helicopter flying low, Sangam said it was an earthquake and looked as if he was just expecting it to stop, but the building started to shake too, that's when he advised us to go outside so we followed just as quick paced as Sangam and the rest of the guides and porters were going. When we got outside we heard an almighty roar of an avalanche but it was too cloudy to know which direction it was coming from. Everything went back still and everyone was left looking at each other not knowing how to feel, Sangam said at the time "that was a big one, about 45 seconds". Laura wasn't scared, she just couldn't believe the feeling of such power and force of earth under her feet, and Ben, he thought it was awesome, all the boys did, they felt their first earthquake and heard their first avalanche. We continued our card game back inside until we felt the aftershock which had us running back outside, being outside made us cold so we decided to lie in our room again, in the covers and watch a movie, Laura decided that we had had an earthquake and an aftershock so that was it, earthquake should be over, so we watched 'Catch Me If You Can' except we were interupted by a third tremmer which had us panicking out of the covers, putting our shoes on and getting outside, this is what made Laura scared, no relaxing just in case you have to move. We managed to finish the end of our film then we went back to the restaurant for tea, we walking in so chirpy, still adrenaline in our viens from the rush of the 2nd aftershock, this is where we were made to realise how naive and young minded we had been, Sangam told us that the earthquake we felt was 7.9 and had killed hundreds of people in Kathmandu. We sat in silence eating our tea whilst Sangam and the other guides huddled round the radio, shaking their heads, we would ask Sangam what's happening and each time he would say 'very bad news' followed by numbers or people dead, injured, houses destroyed and what towns including Namache Bazaar but never any news from Everest. We found some wifi to contact home as we felt it would have made world news and didn't want anyone to worry, then we went to bed feeling confused and guilty, we had never felt such devastation right infront of us, it felt like a dream.