Renewal

I had been feeling frustrated with things at work and just a general crankiness lately so I decided to take a "Mental Health Day" and get outside. It's been so windy lately I haven't been able to get down to the river so I decided to take advantage of the warm, sunny & calm and take Bambuul to check things out.

Panoramic of the open river.

It's maybe only 20-30 yards across at its widest.

Path down to the edge.

Of course she wanted to go down!

Mama's pretty girl by the river's edge.

Those ears! That tongue!

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Panoramic looking back toward the ger district.

Cows grazing the hudoo, with the juxtaposition of traditional country life and the "big" city in the background.

Ger district, zoomed in.

A ger in a house's hashaa (fence). This is how ger dwelling PCVs live. The people in the house are their hashaa family, usually someone who works at their HCA.

An ovoo. Bams and I walked around it three times then made a wish.

We went back a couple days later:

Gulls in the river.

Not sure what the strips of ribbon were for, but they were really pretty!