Our Visitors Sue and David

 

It has been very exciting to have our second lot of visitors, Sue and David (Ben's Mum, Paige's Grand Parents) come to visit us here in Mongolia. They stayed for a week and they were able to see many of the sites in the capital city of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar.

Every day we were out and about seeing a site and experiencing daily life in Mongolia.

Traffic played a big part in the visit, it was no surprise to see how bad the traffic was and the lack of people following simple road rules here. Mongolia is a developing city but with the rich culture and history experienced here by visitors many are left wondering how will the city develop in the future?.

It was wonderful to share our daily life with Sue and David in Mongolia and to give them an insight to this interesting country.



Paige with Nanna Sue

Sue and Paige with one of the costumes from the Mongolian National Dance, Music and Cultural Show

Paige, David, Sue and Ben

Paige and an eagle

David holding an eagle

David, Sue and Paige next to a Camel

David at the Chinggis Khan Statue

Turtle Rock at Terej National Park

Paige at Terej National Park

Paige, Sue and David walking around an Ovoo

David and Sue at the top of Zaisan Memorial

Sue and David visit Paige's class room

David and Sue at the gates to the Winter Palace of Bogd khan

Sue and David at the Grandantegchenling Monastery

Sue and David spinning the prey wheels

Undra, Mishel and Paige

David and Sue at the Government House

The flags of Mongolia inside the Government House

Bernadette and David at the Beatles Monument

Visiting the International School of Ulaanbaatar



David, Sue and Ben at ISU

Bernadette and Ben at ISU

Paige (far left) performing at the ISU 20th Celebrations

Paige on stage

School paper cake for the 20th year celebrations


 

 

 

Car Stickers

Left sticker is for the car check and pollution sticker, right sticker is for the registration

As we have had our car for a year in UB it was time to change the stickers on the car.

One sticker is for the registration and one sticker is for the pollution charge and good working inspection.

Every year each car on the road here must up grade the stickers.

With anything it takes time to do, first I had to arrange the registration sticker where you go to the office, pay the money on one level then take the papers up to another level, get the two documents signed and stamped and then you are given the sticker, cost were all of $60.

 

Next I had to take the car to the inspection workshop where waiting is something that has to be done in line for nearly an hour before you reach the inspection part to find the car is looked at for a whole two minutes to ensure the car is of good condition. I had to laugh as there are some many cars on the roads here which have easy spotted defects with lights, pollution and falling apart that I wonder how these cars pass this simple test. After the inspection and the $10 is paid then you receive the sticker.

 

Its so important to ensure all the documents are correct for the car as if you are pulled over by the police they will make sure they give you a hard time as it seem expats never get off lightly.

Our Visitors John and Margie

It was very exciting to have our first lot of  visitors come and stay with us here in Mongolia. In September we have our second lot of visitors coming as well.

John and Margie, Paige's Grandma and Pa arrived safely and over a number of days we showed them around the city of Ulaanbaatar and then travelled into the country side to show the them what I call the "two faces of Mongolia". The city and the country side are worlds apart and it was really nice to be able to show the two sides to the country we are living in.

John and Margie in Sukhbaatar Square

Margie, John and Paige

John, Margie, Paige and Ben at Gandantegchenling Monastery

Paige and Margie 

The big Buddha at the Gandantegchenling Monastery

Bernadette, Ben, Margie and John at the top of the Zaisan Memorial

John, Paige & Ben knocking at the big doors to the Winter Palace of Bogd Khan

Margie and Paige in the car

Margie with baby Mishel

Margie trying her had at making Mongolia food

Home made Mongolian dumplings

Undra explains about the Mongolian flag

Tsengun and Paige

Mugee, Undra, John and Margie

The traffic we had to pass on the detour on our way out to the country side

John holding an eagle

Margie and the Camel

Paige & Margie in front of the Chinggis Khan Statue

Ben, Paige and Bernadette 

John, Margie & Paige standing in front of a Ger

Paige & Margie walking around a ovoo

After walking around the ovoo three times clockwise Margie throws a rock on the pile