A Kazak birthday

Currently north of India (this is the extent of our navigation skills at the moment, maps are completely redundant), heading towards the Mongol border in two days time. Am having the best birthday ever...this morning the boys drove one of the cars a short distance across the kazak steppe and ran a power shower from the cigarette lighter...10 mins of hot water after about 3 days without a shower. Then a weather worn old farmer appeared out of nowhere with a herd of horses and foals. Then Ad made scrambled eggs and did all the driving over the nightmare potholes and I sat and relaxed. Now we are sitting in a russian restaurant in Astana eating horse meat (No!) and salted watermelon. One of my best bdays x x x