Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Women's Sumo???




We went to the countryside with Eagle TV employees.  We got to the place and everyone unpacked their things and then went to sit outside and wrestle.  Yep, that's what they do here for fun instead f the good old game of football, or baseball, or frizbee.  Mongolians LOVE wrestling.  They even listen to sumo wrestling on the radio, like we would listen to a baseball game.  When we first moved here, Anna was 5, and if she would walk in the room and sumo wrestling was on, she would cover her eyes and say, "Ooooh yuck, please change the channel".  Anyway back to the retreat.  All the men signed up and their names were drawn randomly to wrestle each other.  Of course Tony signed up, but he wants to talk about that on his blog. The men didn't do Sumo wrestling, they did traditional Mongolian wrestling, which is nothing like the wrestling done in American High Schools. SO all the men finish and they start asking for the ladies who want to Sumo wrestle.  They ask me if I wanted to wrestle, but have you seen the outfits they wear??? No thank You....no really they wore clothes, thankfully.  All my older girls wanted to do it though, so I got some good shots of them getting beat.  They really had no chance.  These other ladies have done this their whole life, and this was our first time.  They had fun anyway and that is all that matters.

1 comment:

dawn wilson said...

wow, your girls look so grown up!I would love to see a pic of them all!