Tajikistan

In September, we had the opportunity to visit Tajikistan. The next few posts will hopefully give you an idea what it was like.

We went in order to visit Matthew's brother and his family. Aaron, Jen, Ella and Silas have lived in Tajikistan for 4 years. It had been a while since we had seen each other. In fact, this was our first introduction to Silas.

Here are the cousins looking smart.

Here we are picnicking at a reserviour near Khujand.

The cousins got on smashingly! Here's Ella leading BG through her town.

Miriam and Silas had a stormy relationship. One minute they would be competing (with tears) for the same toy, the next minute they would be laughing together. But that's a two year old for ya!

Ella and Oliver rode together on this ride at the amusement park.

Miriam has never sat so still.

We met a few interesting people that made our time in Tajikistan special, like the family that Aaron and Jen lived with when they first arrived and the man who helped Aaron learn Tajik, but noone was more endearing than this young lady. She babysits for Ella and Silas sometimes, but she is far more that a babysitter. She has a place in our hearts and prayers.
Here we are all together. Oh, yeah, did we tell you that the American football made the whole journey? Crazy boys, they couldn't put it down!