Carey Eubank Wedding: Gift Registry & Ideas

Carey Eubank Wedding: Gift Registry & Ideas
As we prepare to pack and store all of our belongings to move to Nepal for two years, we are realizing how much "stuff" we both have and thinking about how to down-size. We know for many, giving a gift is an important gesture to support and celebrate marriage. If you are wondering what would be appropriate or helpful to us as we start our new adventure together we have some tips and ideas to share:
First off, gift cards that won't expire for two years would be excellent and allow us flexibility to get home and decorate our kitchen and home building off of the things we buy in Nepal.
For Nepal, there are a lot of things that have been recommended to us to bring:
We need flannel sheets! Apparently, there is no central heat in buildings and the winters can get quite cold. We would love things to help us keep warm: a heavy-weight down comforter, warm wool socks, down booties (we have a lot of sweaters & down jackets already), and other such cozy things.
Despite the cold nights, the growing season is year-round. Most folks have an outdoor (for us, it will be a patio or roof-top) garden where they grow fresh vegetables, flowers and herbs. We would love it if you would like to give us a "garden kit" with your favorite seeds for us to grow fresh in Nepal.
The other big recommendation is that we bring mountain bikes for all of our commuting purposes. The roads are crazy and the pot-holes are big, so front suspension mountain bikes are the way to go. Shannon will have to put aside her road bike and needs a new mountain bike, so if you'd like to make a contribution to a bike fund that would be an enormous help. We plan to outfit our bikes with racks, panniers, a good light system long cable-locks and a basic home-repair kit. Once we get used to the traffic mayhem, we will be riding most everywhere.
We plan to do as much traveling as possible while we are in Nepal. During the school holidays, we want to go on treks in the Himalayas, go white-water rafting in Nepal, and fly to Southeast Asia to explore. If you'd like to support us on this two-year working honeymoon adventure, we'd welcome your support and promise to send cool pictures of our adventures and travels.

For more traditional ideas, we have a limited registry set up at Macys (macysweddingchannel.com) and at the Greenhouse in Bellingham (1.800.446.0104). We mostly need good cookware to last the rest of our lives, a good set of kitchen knives, and nice silver-ware to replace our chipped-up hard plastic hand-me-down current cutlery. Also, Shannon's Grandmother, Ellen, left her some of her fine China when she passed away. Shannon would like to re-establish the set, and plans to use it as everyday table-ware (why not?!). The problem is Lenox discontinued the "Olympia" line in 1984, after making it since 1952. If you are a good internet bargain shopper, and can find used pieces to match, we need bowls, platters, serving dishes, and basically everything but dinner and salad plates. We have the ivory plates with the simple gold decorative rim. They are very plain, and as we've discovered no one makes new China that is ivory or has gold trim anymore! Lenox: Olympia in ivory with gold.
Both of us love pottery and any hand-crafted pottery pieces would be welcome! We are planning to get rid of all of our kitchen wares (except the China plates), and would love to re-build with earthware. We need things like platters, serving dishes, mugs, a tea-pot, plates, bowls basically anything pottery! There is a great pottery shop in Bellingham, called Mud in Your Eye Pottery, plus earthware is easy to find at most outdoor farmer's markets.