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Things I Never Expected To Do or Say; Volume I:

• wear shoes in the shower every day
• make flashcards to study Russian while sitting in a Korean coffee shop
• wonder if those are yaks that we are passing by on our horses

• check for bedbugs
• repair a deadbolt lock with a pair of nail clippers
• try not to be too obvious when watching other diners at a restaurant to see how they eat their food; chopsticks or spoon?  with or without rice?  soup or beverage?
• drink a big bowl of homemade fermented horse milk in a neighbouring herdsman’s ger; smile as I finish the whole thing as it would be rude to refuse or display distaste

• ask Marc,”What animal’s bones are these in this stew?” and get a post-tasting response of “I don’t know”.
• have a picnic on a mountain in Mongolia on a Wednesday
• be surprised and pleased that the shower has hot water
• tell someone we met 2 days earlier that “We’ll meet you in Seoul”.
• “I’m starting to like these little, dried and candied fish.”
• be enormously pleased that not only does our room have a TV, it has one English channel and the show on that channel is ‘Banned in America: The World’s Sexiest Commercials’, hosted by Carmen Electra
• wear my long underwear in July
• be recognized as Canadian just by the lululemon logo on my sweater.  Twice
• discover a new definition for ‘The Middle of Nowhere’

• watch music videos for the four hours between 3:00am and 7:00am at the Chinggis Khan airport in Ulaanbaatar, the best of which was Tom Jones’ “What’s New, Pussycat?”
• enjoy tea and cakes with jam in a tent on the Mongolian steppe
• wear an orange belt

• milk a horse
• ride a bus with an attendant
• be grateful for instant coffee
• think that $3 is a lot to spend on lunch
• not bat an eye at spending twice as much on Happy Hour
• come this close to buying a wee camouflage outfit for Scarlett
• visit North Korea, if only 2 ft. across the border while inside a building
• meet a fellow WestJetter while on a tour of the DMZ (really, what are the odds?)
• wake up to the sound of galloping horses
• download Mongolian rap music from a Ukranian-American named Buby who teaches acupuncture in China
• be in possession of Roubles, Won, Yuen, Tugruk, and USD at the same time
• see such a view

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