Today I went shopping down in the bellad with one of my favorite Iraqi families (Note: They're all my favorite). I popped by their flat and, after going through the ritual greetings and sharing cups of tea and water in the living room, we were off in a taxi. After getting what we were looking for, we stopped at a juice stand. There was a guy behind the counter blending fruit juices, but if you wanted some sugarcane juice, the guy out front fed stalks into this contraption, and the super fresh juice dripped out the bottom. It was delicious. Just the right amount of sweet.
I also attended a kids' birthday party today, complete with Arabic 'Happy Birthday,' cupcake decorating, and those awesomely intense candles/sparklers that would probably be illegal to market to children in the U.S.
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