Choibalsan, Mongolia

Choibalsan City Sign - "Hot" means City

We got home from Ulaanbaatar, this evening and I wanted to put some of these pictures into the blog, so I left Dad to unpack and do a load of laundry!

Our Mission Conference was really good.

We learned that Choibalsan is the Branch furtherest away from Mission Headquarters.

The Mission Pres. again said how thankful he was for all his "Countryside" couples, there are 5 of us, we are the Grandma's and Grandpa's to these members.

This picture was taken out of our apartment window.
Choibalsan has several ice skating rinks, they love to ice skate.
It was interesting to watch them build this rink, they carried buckets of water and just threw it out where they felt it was needed.
It is very uneaven, but they still skate and play hocky on it, and there is Mongolian music playing, which is nice, since we have no CD player to play anything.


This was parked out side of our apartment.
The best place to shop, and their idea of a mall is called a "Zaah" they have everything from meat to vegatables to used plumbing supplies. There are lots of small booths and vendors, and if you buy too much or something too big, you can hire a horse and cart to take you home!


They have playgrounds all over the city, each apartment complex has a playground.
You can see the kids playing all the time, even in winter.
This Ger and people are especially well taken care of.
It is located at a kindergarten, about 4 blocks from our apartment.
Isn't it so cute?