A big long train ride

Rewind back to when I was in Tianjin and we leave for Beijing the afternoon before our morning train tickets to UB. Adam, his cousin and I take a taxi to the Tiajin train station where we eat at the chinese fastfood resturaunt pictured below and find a freelance car ride to Beijing (faster than the train because we don't have to wait for it.) We stayed in a hotel for the night and left on the train in the morning.
I had thought the train ride would be over at 2pm the same day but the truth was it was 2pm the NEXT day. But no problem, I had plenty of books and of course you can move around on trains so I was able to exercise a little too. We ate noodle bowls and boiled eggs bought from the train platforms along the way. Around midnight we reached the border were they had to change the wheels on the train so that they could run on the Mongol tracks. Then they kept us up longer with the customs ruckus.
The next day we arrived in UB and were picked up by my uncle Greg. The parking lot was mayhem and the driving just as bad. There are some pictures of the intersection outside my Aunt's house to give you an idea. To be fair it is one of the worst.