All About Afghanistan ... things

On the weekends they have these bazaars where you can buy things from local Afghan vendors amongst other useful and usual stuff like cell phones, watches, etc.

I purchased some necklaces and asked Jen to choose which one she likes.

Jen here- I said, "None, thank you though."

Gee, I can't understand why she doesn't like them. Don't they look alluring to you?

(Jen here- the necklaces above remind me of a hospital floor -enlarge pic to see shiny detail- and the one below -with all the color- reminds me of something our girls would make. They're cool enough, but I'd rather spend my money on new clothes! Like I said to Drew, "You're my Afghanistan souvenir." Doesn't get much better than that!)



the girls love to play dress up, so I bought these traditional Afghan dresses for them



Since we're on the subject of Afghanistan things, this is the perfect place to post pics of my favorite meal so far- a traditional Afghanistan B-B-Q.

I'm too sexy for my black hat
(Jen here too, can you tell?)


it cost $14 and was worth EVERY penny


above is a funky rice dish
but below ... come to daddy!
REAL meat = heaven


and for the after-dessert treat, traditional hooka
(smoking a pipe of flavored tobacco- I did NOT take part in this)

(btw-these women are on the Bulgarian surgical team)

the best thing about the meal, next to the meat, was that I did not get food poisoning.

I suppose though if one had a negative reaction to the hooka, finding Kleenex to handle the mess would be no problem because they sell this -

Mansize tissues: only in Afghanistan!