Monday, April 23, 2012

Mandee and Levi come to Visit



Mandee and Levi arrived on Monday afternoon.

We had fun picking Alex up from school. This ger is on the playground in front of Alex's school.

We went on Many Many adventures which will be blogged about over time. 
In the last week:

We had ate Mongolian food at Cozy Nomads
We went to the Intellectual Museum
Ate at Rosewood
We shopped at Mercury Market
Picked Alex up from school
Went to Gandan Monastery
Held and Eagle and got pictures taken
Visited Zaisan Memorial
Went to Choijin Lama Temple
Ate at Millies
Shopped at the Black Market
Chilled at MB's 
Perused an Antique Store
Window shopped at the State Department Store
Ate at Millie's again
Sorted Blankets for the Mother and Child Hospital
Delivered Blankets to the Mother and Child Hospital
Visited the French Catholic orphanage
Went to the Natural History Museum
Went to the National History Museum
Had pictures taken with Lenin
Ran around Suk Bataar Square
Ordered in Hazaara
Rode bactrian camels
Visited the worlds Largest statue of a man on a horse
Drove through Terelj National Park
Lost Alex's coat in the Terelj Hotel
Had and indoor picnic at the Ayunchin Ger camp
During the picnic we ate Khushuur (Mongolian Fried Dumplings)
Played on the playground at the camp
Walked around a Shaman pole three times
Held a vulture and a falcon... and had photos taken with two eagles
Ate controversial pizza at the Irish Castle
Packed a picnic
Drove out to Saraa's Ger camp... very fun off roaring in a Honda Accord
Sampled milk tea
Went on a two hour horse ride
Ate our picnic in the get
played horse shoe
Used an out house
Made a quick trip to Computer Land
Shopped at the State Department Store
Visited the old train station and took pictures with old Soviet Trains
Dinner at Blue Sky Tower
Dessert at Monet in Central tower

Then we had to come home and pack so that Mandee and Levi could be ready for transport to the airport at 4 am. Then their flight was delayed and they didn't end up flying out until after 1 pm.
All these activities despite the insane UB traffic happened between Monday night and Saturday night. I am going to sleep off their visit, and my saddle sores for a few days and then blog about all this. Needless to say, we had a lot of fun and we completely wore ourselves out.

GOOD NIGHT!!!







3 comments:

Jenica said...

I am so happy I FINALLY found your blog even though you are back. What a fun adventure. BTW, I love the quotes by Alex. We will miss you guys, I wish that we could have had more time to catch up.

Jenica said...

I am so happy I FINALLY found your blog even though you are back. What a fun adventure. BTW, I love the quotes by Alex. We will miss you guys, I wish that we could have had more time to catch up.

Jenica said...

I am so happy I FINALLY found your blog even though you are back. What a fun adventure. BTW, I love the quotes by Alex. We will miss you guys, I wish that we could have had more time to catch up.