new year's eve

new year's eve was a lot of fun here in ub. first my teammates and i enjoyed tacos (with home made flour tortillas) and a few episodes of "the office". then andrea, gillian, and i met up with some other people and went to the main square in town to watch fireworks and experience some of the mongolian mayhem.
here we are on the outskirts of the main square. gillian and i are holding remains of fireworks someone set off earlier. once we got closer to the center of the square it seemed that we were the only three people without our own fireworks. mayhem indeed!

the blur you see on the left side of this picture is the breath of the person who was taking it. just to give you some idea of how cold it was.

there's an outdoor ice skating rink at the south end of the square where a good number of people were skating their way into 2008.