Another family visit

Today we went to visit another one of my wife’s sisters. We sat and talked and had a great time. Somehow the conversation changed to toilets. Most toilets here are in-floor toilets, so we had a good laugh at the differences. I guess it all depends on what you are used to. My little 3 year old had to go to the bathroom when we were there, she walked in the bathroom and said “this isn’t a bathroom” when she saw the toilet. That was pretty funny. We had a great lunch called zereshk polo. It is rice with some sort of red berries and chicken. The local rice here is excellent, it tastes totally different than the rice we get. After lunch we decided to go to some parks. One of the parks we went to was a famous park called Azadi Park. This park is huge and has several sections including a small amusement park for kids. It was a little bit of a walk to the park so we past a lot of local shops on the way. One of the pizza places we passed was a Godfather’s Pizza with the same logo and sign as the ones in the US, I snapped a picture of it.

When we got back to the house some more of the family had arrived and it was time for dinner. We had a dish called Bademjun, kind of an eggplant stew with some lentils, onions and a little yogurt on top. It was excellent. Every meal here is big and they go out of their way to make sure you have enough to eat. Luckily the food is all pretty healthy so hopefully I won’t gain too much weight.

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