The past couple of days has featured lots of packing and goodbyes. Yesterday our friend Nurbol treated us to lunch at Arvin, the local Mongolian restaurant. Ashlee was right, I totally jinxed myself the other day when I said something about eating my last Mongolian meal. I got a traditional Kazakh meat dish -- and I have been paying for it ever since. I have found it a lot easier to say goodbye to Mongolia when its food keeps me up tossing and turning all night and running to the bathroom every 20 minutes.
Anyways, the weather was gorgeous in Olgii today -- a perfect day to fly. Brian, Sabit, and Nurbol accompanied us to the airport, which was nice because we have over a hundred pounds of luggage. The flight itself went smoothly and we made it to our guesthouse fine.
Since I was still feeling a bit under the weather, we kept it low-key this afternoon. A simple lunch at Cafe Amsterdam before closing our bank accounts at Khan Bank. Some nasty weather rolled in after lunch time and it has been raining ever since -- which means that tomorrow the city, with its complete lack of drainage, will be riddled with small rivers and lakes. Awesome.
Here's some pictures from this morning.
Olgii's airport. This year they finally started paving the runway.
The US State Department only approves of one domestic airline: Eznis.
A shot of the dirt runway during takeoff.
Flying out over Olgii
Downtown Olgii. That's my school square in the middle.
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