Our apartment was located right downtown next to the massive State Department Store, which is a throwback to the Soviet days when it was the only store in town. Today it houses a several different vendors on each of the many floors and you can find just about anything so it's still a good place to go and shop, but it takes a little while to find what you're looking for. Before we headed out to explore the city for the first time, Zaya warned us to be careful crossing the street. We thought it was a nice, motherly thing to say until we actually tried to cross the street. We think that cars may actually have the right of way in Ulaan Bataar, because we never once saw even the slightest attempt to slow down for pedestrians. On the contrary, it seemed as though cars would actually speed up and aim for them. Crossing the street was like playing a live game of Frogger, where you'd cross one lane, stand precariously on between lanes as cars rocketed past you on both sides, and make a break for it once you saw another opening. We only saw two or three intersections with traffic signals which nobody paid attention to anyway, so the rest of the time we'd just crowd in with a bunch of other people and hope they'd go for the weak ones.