Friday, July 2, 2010

We oot.

100% correct answers to the quiz from the singular guesser, Yelena!  Who needs a lock on their door when you have a heated towel rack?? Well done, Miss!

And for all you former colleagues who I know are reading, I'm expecting a bit more commenting interaction.  I know you guys are multi-tasking....

1. Air Conditioning
2. Warming Towel Rack in bathroom
3. Sauna
4. Twin beds
5. Flies
6. A bedside console that controls the lights and electronics in the room
7. 3 course breakfast
8. In-room safe
9. Chain lock for door
10. An individual water boiler
11. Internet access

So, folks, our brief and muted tenure in Ulan Bator is ending in about a half-hour and we head to the steppe.  We're super psyched to go and have already seen where the "city" ends which is fascinating and hilarious.  Basically at the outskirts there are large, ornamental one-car wide open gates that you pass through on to a single lane dirt road that heads for the hills.  And thus, you're on your way.
 
I decided last night that Ulan Bator is more like Detroit than like Vegas, perhaps more on that during our second stop here after the trip through the countryside.  We aren't sure how much access we'll have in the next couple of weeks, but if the other smaller cities are anything like here, I suspect we'll be riding our camels past a few internet cafes.
 
Wish us luck!  Mostly with the drinking of the fermented yak's milk without barfing in front of the nomads, please.

2 comments:

Yelena said...

I'm a winner!
I eagerly anticipate the next quiz and the first shots of you guys on camels!

Unknown said...

It sounds like you are having an amazing time! Reading your blog makes me feel super insecure about my level of wittiness (0). Post some pictures when you get back into the "city"!