Aziz's Bakery

Today was a rainy day, so not much construction work going on. It's still raining tonight, this is the most rain we've had in the short time we have been here. It'll be a good morning to check drainage on the base tomorrow.

We went Aziz's Bakery today for lunch. One of the local national engineers in the office wanted to take us. So we had lunch, and we'll go back again tomorrow, Aziz's invited us back. He would not take any thing for the meal, said we were with his friend. And, he said he would not take anything for lunch tomorrow. But, if we like we can come back the next day and he'll take our money. I don't know how he makes any money as I saw him refuse payment from another custormer while we were eating our lunch.

I'm not sure exactly what we ate, but it was good and so far, keep my fingers crossed, no adverse reactions. They started with the hot green tea and flat bread, while we waited for the food. We had a rice mixture that had some cooked grapes, tomatoes and some other stuff, some kind of bean mixture, a beef stew (beef and corn), tomatoes and onions and something else that none of us were sure what it was. We asked the local engineer and he said it was a kabob, it was flat like a burger and tasted like some kind of meat, not too bad. Then we finished with more green tea.

We'll see what's for lunch tomorrow. In the picture above I'm standing in front of the bakery with another member of our team and the local national engineer.