Good grief, it’s hot here! I went out shopping yesterday with Brad and Mike and thought we might melt! I had several errands to run: taking things to be framed, picking up photographs, just odds and ends. I took this photo below of the naan (flatbread) shop – the guy squatting on the left is placing dough in the tandoor (oven) and geez, talk about hot. It hurt just to pause to take the photo and buy a couple of pieces of bread!
The naan shop
Making naan
We had a few things going on this week. John and I treated ourselves to sushi one night; spent Friday the 13th at a happy hour given by the agricultural attaché, followed by a going-away party for our friends Charlie and Andrea; shopping outing to the tailor with John; shopping outing with Brad to the tailor and to Saad Brass; happy hour at the Club with friends on Wednesday – keeping busy!
I gave a visa presentation to the Ambassador and other interested folks on Thursday – it was fun. Visa stories are always interesting and entertaining and everyone seemed to enjoy hearing about the work we do in the section.
I went back to the dentist for my crown. He’s so good (Dr. Malik). He actually has a lab in the office where they make the crowns. He wasn’t happy with the color, so he brought the tech up to look at it – 15 minutes later, the tech had re-fired it and the color was perfect – pretty amazing to me. He’s going to do a couple more for me before I go; crowns are very inexpensive here compared to the States, so I’m going to take advantage of that before we leave.
There was an attack on the airport in Karachi last Sunday, so our security posture here has changed a bit. I can’t drive my car, so am back in Motorpool for everything.
LJ is in the hospital for a few days – her blood pressure dropped super-low. Luckily her fabulous housekeeper was there and got her to the ER quickly. We’ve spoken several times and she sounds good. They’re running tests and keeping her a couple of days for observation.
These fabulous trees are blooming in Islamabad right now – they are gorgeous. The blossoms look like bunches of grapes.
Amaltas tree