To Ride Stinky

So, I went to the Bazaar again today - mostly to get some jewelry for my beautiful wife and for my lovely daughter (I scored some good stuff if you want to ask them). I have been looking at this camel every time i walk through so i wanted decided to take a picture with him.



We call him stinky the camel - i will let you all try to figure out why he got that name.



Anyway - these are not particularly flattering shots of me - you get my pasty white thighs and my hair that needs cutting - but i thought the kids would like this.



Of course the guy didn't speak much English and in true Afghan style argued with me about the costs. He has a sign that says $5 for picture with the camel, $10 for a ride - well i interpret that as $5 to sit on the camel - he interprets it as $5 for every picture that gets taken on the camera so i think i totally got robbed on this one. I ended up paying $20 for the ride and 6 pictures - but i got taken - always negotiate price before you ride a camel - i am pretty sure Lawrence of Arabia said the same thing in The Seven Pillars of Wisdom.



So sorry that i haven't written in the last few weeks - a lot has happened at work - not much of which i can speak about. I did get to fly down to another base for a few days to work with an air crew that was involved in a heavy fire fight - I love getting out and doing that kind of thing.