Two days ago while we were in the aimag center we picked out some furniture, haggled out a price with the seller, and requested a few repairs and changes before we came back on Monday to pick everything up.  As it often is, though, things in Mongolia are not as straight forward as you would hope.  Upon arriving in the store we found that none of the repairs had been made and a very surly saleswomen who insisted that we said we would come back on Tuesday.  Now keep in mind that we spent over $500 in her store, so it seemed very strange that she was so rude to us.  She even argued with us over changing our mind to buy two chests ($130) instead of the one ($100) one that we had originally picked out.

In the end we got a lovely new table, four stools, a kitchen storage unit, and 2 storage chests in and onto our jeep, made nice with the saleswomen, and even got her to smile.  Shopping here is certainly not like shopping at Ikea.

Our kitchen cupboard i.e. our entire kitchen!