Larry Memmott's Blog

This is one of our family traditions, everybody makes their own pizzas with whatever they want on them.

We had a great Christmas Day. For the first time this year, it really showed overnight, with huge, beautiful flakes floating to the ground. Not a lot of snow fell, but the grass was completely covered.

Tatyana gave the girls new boots for Christmas. But, of course, the girls had to choose their own. We went to Dordoy Bazaar to look for boots. They got really cut ones.

We went to a shopping center that has some places to play. William decided to ride the mechanical bull. He stayed on for quite a while, but in the end . . .

This is not the kind of thing I usually put in my blog, but it was the best set of belly laughs I have had in a long time. Highly recommended: Dave Barry’s New Years’ Column

We drove up to Ala Archa to take a walk in the snow.  It was beautiful, as it always is.

Alexandra, Christina and William came to visit us for Christmas and New Years. We had a great time exploring Bishkek and some of the mountainous areas around the city. Although we were disappointed with the light snowfall (and they missed the Blizzard of 09 back at home), the mild weather did allow us to have […]

Over the past few days we’ve been getting seriously into the Christmas spirit! The Embassy’s local employees organized a major party at a local cafe for the adults of the embassy, with plenty to eat and drink, and lots of dancing and partying. It was a blast! And then we hosted, at our house, Breakfast […]

We hadn’t seen it snow for five years, so it was exciting to see the white stuff come down for the first time in Bishkek. It snowed for two days straight, but was so warm that only a skiff of snow actually stuck to the ground. So we took a trip up Ala Archa canyon […]

Lake Issyk Kul is the tenth largest lake in the world (by volume) and the second largest mountain lake (after Lake Titicaca, which I have also visited). It is also the second largest saline lake in the world, after the Caspian Sea (so, bigger than the Great Salt Lake). It’s not heavily salty, just enough […]