Sunday, July 12, 2009

Naadam.

Great news! Paul called me last night (1:38 a.m.)!
He told me some great stuff, about how he's eating great, catching lots of sweet bugs, etc.
He also let me know about a HUGE Mongolian holiday that was yesterday... called Naadam.
It's also called "The Three Games of Men"- so obviously my man had to participate!
The three competitions are:
WRESTLING
HORSE RACING....AND ARCHERY...
and Paul WON the archery competition! I said "did you have bows and arrows?" and he said "No.. we just threw a rock a bottle, and you know how good of an arm I have..."

I was also quite happy to hear he didn't wrestle to protect his shoulder. I wonder if they did any horse racing...


So I'm very proud of him! And mostly happy I got to hear his voice and know he is alive, safe and happy!

And by the way... we are HALFWAY through these long four weeks!

1 comment:

Mindy said...

Oh, dear. Those pictures are great. Jason and I watched a documentary about a river in Mongolia and these massive scary fish in them. We thought of Paul.