Our life in pictures. Well, some of it in Mongolia anyway.

This is a picture of the conservative party building in Ulaanbataar. Our guide showed us this on day one, cause it was near our hotel and on the way to dinner. Apparently some guys broke in, drank a lot of vodka from the mini-mart on the ground floor and then set it all on fire. There's a lot of political tension in Mongolia after the latest elections; we didn't tell our mothers, but there was a state of emergency declared for a few days, a couple of weeks before we left on our trip.

Did we mention it was a seven hour bus ride to our first ger camp? Well it was. This is an impromptu frisbee game at one of the toilet stops. Note the lack of toilets, other people, bitumen, buildings and civilisation in general. It's just rolling, grassy steppe under an enormous blue sky...

How's the serenity.

Laura found these urchins drinking beer in a cafe after we went out one night. That's not a joke. She wanted to take a photo of them, but these are street smart Mongolians we're talking about who realised that this was a slightly tipsy white woman with money in her pocket. We're still unsure about how much money Laura gave them (she claims it was the equivalent of twenty cents), but we're sure that it was enough to buy their next beer.