
Even in the depth of winter these camels are “saddled up” and waiting by the roadside in Terelj National park most days, the owners hoping some crazy tourists will come along and pay a few hundred Tugrugs for a ride or photo op.

Back on this side of the Pacific the snow finally stopped and the sun came out so we donned snow boots and toques and ventured into the yard, here’s David getting to know Freya, our ”ney”bours horse.
Yesterday we got a taste of winter with a big storm dumping almost 6 inches of snow on us. This picture was taken around 4pm from my kitchen window and by the time it stopped snowing we had another 3 inches.

This morning we started clearing walkways and digging out, but David was not sure about all that white stuff.
Ray is now back in Mongolia, here’s a cute shot of David helping him sort through some drawings to take back.
The two weeks since Christmas have flown by - here are a few of our pictures from Christmas morning. Although David is too young to understand what its all about, he soon got the idea and had great fun opening his gifts.


He climbed right onto the huge pile of gifts - these were all for him

Some assembly required but Dad soon had the bike put together