Deep, Thought Provoking Title: What We've Been Doing

Dec 17, 2010

What We've Been Doing

A lot has been written on this blog in the last couple of weeks, but not a lot has been written about Eva. Which is the reason people even come to this blog in the first place. So here are some pictures of three random things we've done over the last couple of weeks.

1. Animal Exhibition: The king (or someone in the government) sponsored an animal exhibition. It was kind of like a petting zoo that had a child with Goliath. It was huge, fun, but you always wondered if it wasn't a little dangerous. They had lots of animals - cows, horses, different kinds of dogs, birds, goats, sheep, and falcons. Yes, falcons. For petting. Thus the danger part.

That, my friends, is a live falcon that Eva is petting.

Lots of birds. This one even perched on Eva's arm, though Eva didn't know what to think about that.

Petting a horse. Just precious.

2. Christmas Tree: After Thanksgiving, we had some friends over and we decorated the Christmas tree. The girl was 3 or 4, and I didn't speak any of the languages she spoke: Russian, Pashtun (language of the border region between Afghanistan and Pakistan) and Arabic. But as a four year old, I know enough Arabic to have a conversation with her.

You'll notice that the bottom portion of the tree doesn't have many decorations. Which of the options below best explains this phenomenon?

A) Alison kept the decorations high so Eva couldn't get to them.
B) Eva already got to the decorations and has de-christmased our tree already.
C) I decorated the tree starting at the top, ran out of decorations, but just decided to leave it.

3. Off-Roading: I went to the desert with some friends and putzed around the desert. Its always a good time, and I usually break something on the jeep. I didn't break anything this time, but realized that the 4 wheel drive was broken from the last time we went out. Will have to get that fixed.