Lunch and more Volleyball

The top picture is another of the paving contractor, they are working the subgrade for a new section of road we are paving near the airfield.

Yesterday we ate lunch with the contracted Afghani equipment operators. They haul gravel, spread the gravel, tear down old HESCO barriers (dirt filled barriers) and maintain the gravel runway. The pictures are from a previous lunch, but yesterday's lunch was similar. We call it a "parking lot" lunch. The food is cooked in the operators storage yard in a conex container and they serve it on the old airfield steel mats. They set up a table and benches for us, so we would not have to sit on the ground.

They invited us to lunch and a game of volleyball following. However, we were wise to their strategy and respectfully declined the volleyball game, but graceously accepted their food. They fed us so much for lunch we could hardly move, there was no way we could play volleyball. They put 5 plates of food in front of each one of us. One of our guys offered to feed them lunch on Friday and to play volleyball. They caught on to our strategy and declined as Friday is their day off and he was offering pork chops (they don't eat pork).

The operators must not have eaten as much as we did as they still played volleyball, the middle picture above. Most of them wear the traditional clothing, even when playing volleyball.