Uzbekistan

I voyaged out solo this morning to get breakfast for everyone. Usually at Airbnbs we are prepared with some oatmeal or cereal, but we weren’t today. We had a long, lazy morning of drawing, playing cards, and playing hide and seek. Millie was noticeably tired from her late night and curled up on the couch.…

What. A. Day. I’ll start at the end and say that we walked 17k steps today, according to my phone. We had a lazy morning where Millie drew and Nick and I attempted to do some research about our next stop. She has new thing where she chooses scenes from her books and then recreates…

Transit day today. We got up at about 7:30, had breakfast, and then called a car to head to the train station. Our train left at 11am which is the perfect time. Late enough not to rush, early enough not to need to fill the time. This time we were able to get tickets for…

Somehow this morning was even worse than yesterday. Millie woke up at 2:30 in the middle of another nightmare. She got into bed with me and Nick got into her bed. It took her a while to calm down and she would only stay calm if she had full contact with my entire body, preferably…

We had a rude awakening this morning by a tiny intruder in our bed at 5AM. She violently cuddled us until 6 but refused to go back to sleep. She cried when we wouldn’t let her see her iPad, and then eventually passed out from 7 to 9:56AM. We woke her up to make it…

We had a lazy morning packing up and then headed to the Tashkent train station. Our sweet Yandex driver spoke barely any English but we managed to communicate that we were from Texas. He searched on YouTube and played “Texas music” for us in his car. He was able to say “rock n’ roll” and…

On this trip we seem to have four general categories of days. 1) transit 2) rest & recharge 3) tourist attraction 4) rambling through a city. It’s been a long time since we’ve had a #4 day, so it felt extra sweet today. We had an excellent morning. Millie woke up without nightmares, crawled into…

I couldn’t get to sleep last night for some reason, and was up until 2:30. Then Millie woke up screaming at 5AM. She was convinced that a spider had crawled on her face and she was in a real state of panic that we’ve only seen once or twice before when she has had bad…

Long travel day today. We had another breakfast buffet at our airport Novotel. Good news: the tire didn’t deflate any more. We dropped off the car and gave them a heads up. We were pretty early, as always, and hung around the Muscat airport until our first flight. Millie couldn’t wait to have her Friday…