July 24, 2016
Quick one, here, at least in terms of words. We've done a lot of traveling over the past two weeks, including a 22-hour bus ride to what turned out to be a mostly abortive attempt at a day camp, then a 22-hour bus ride back home, followed two days later by a trip to a nearby lake, Uureg Nuur (Nuur means lake). Had a lot of fun on both adventures, and we're looking forward to seeing friends and family very soon, but in the meantime, here's some pictures.
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| Taken while we waited for another car to catch up to us on our way to the lake. Looking east. |
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| Looking west. |
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| Looking south. |
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| The storm eventually did catch up to us; this is what it looked like nearer to the lake. |
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| This was much later in the day, closer to sunset. I tried to get the clouds as much as possible because they looked like something out of a painting, brushstrokes and all. Alas alas alas, we were in a car, and most pictures came out blurry. |
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| My CP's family's ger. One of them, anyway. |
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| A mountain near that ger. |
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| As we left the ger pictured above to see some of my CP's family. DOUBLE RAINBOOOOOOOOW. The end is so damned close we thought it might be worth it to check for a pot of gold. |
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| Some of my CP's family -- they were really amused that we wanted to take pictures of them shearing sheep. |
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| Our picnic site near the lake. |
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Looking left from our picnic site. Look at how effing blue the water is!
It was crystal clear, unbelievably cold, and slightly salty. |
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| To the right. Storms threatened most of the time we were there, but we thankfully made it through the day without being rained on. |
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| Pensive Emily. |
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| A small portion of Paul's soum |
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| Sitting by the river in Paul's soum |
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| That same river the next day, after a looooot of rain. |
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| Our dog posse in Paul's soum. They followed us everywhere we went. |
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| Tomato, rudely awoken. |
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| Tomato complaining loudly at the thing that awakened him. |
Also, the UK left the EU. What the... what? What's going on out there?!
These are all great pictures. So happy you two are able to be out and about after a winter of discontent! Wish I was coming to see you.
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