Khovd

This past weekend we flew to Khovd, about 1300 km. to the west of UB.  From the plane the land looked much like the mountainous regions around Helena, flat places between mountains.  It is pretty sparsely populated with just a few Ger camps close to some of the rivers.

It seems that Khovd has almost as much air pollution as UB.  In the evening the smoke was thick as the people must get their fires going to heat their Ger for the night and cook an evening meal. 

The people are just so kind and friendly and cute!!

These looked just like our elk
and mountain sheep

Copies of stone drawings taken
 from caves in the mountains close by

On our way to the airport we stopped at a little museum.  It had lots of relics from the past, 

old costumes, 

and some areas showing the native animals.  One of the Sister Missionaries really liked to get her picture taken.

Cal spent a while last night with one of the Pre-Missionaries (he does all medicals for their mission applications).  He is 18 years old, finished 2 years of university and is studying to be a computer "Hacker" - he assured us it is a good kind of hacker.  When Cal found that out, he asked him if he knew how to download videos.  They proceeded and maybe it is downloaded but when I looked it was David Artchulata singing Silent night and a bunch of other stuff.  We have a steep learning curve!  If the fireworks are there, good, if not or it is something that shouldn't be, don't look!!

Life is good and all is well (except that I have another cold!)