New York girls and the Kite Runner

   I would like to start off by telling a story about a girl and some cheese.  I thought it was a funny situation, I hope you do as well.


   Last week I went to dinner with Sarah and Scott, a married couple I met at church.  Sarah is my age, Scott is a couple of years older and they've become my good friends since I came to Kuwait.  Oh yea, Sarah is from NY, not that its a bad thing to be from NY, but someone from TX would never make this mistake.

   So we went to dinner at Tumbleweeds, a "southwest" styled restaurant in Kuwait city.  Sarah orders some chili con queso and i ordered, i dont remember what they were called, something as an appetizer.  What I ordered was like the ingredients of an enchilada, but stuffed in little cup shaped chips.  Well, it was more like rice paper than chips, or that really thin stuff that's sometimes used to wrap egg rolls.  Its wasn't bad, weird, but ok.   So the waiter brings out the queso, my appetizer and shortly later our food which we enjoy.  Sarah hasn't touched the queso since it was brought out, which i thought was weird, but it didn't look like very good queso so i didn't say anything.  It had the look and giggle of cheese from a can, with a couple of pieces of pepper. 


   The waiter brings the checks right after Scott starts eating the queso.  Sarah looks at hers and tells the waiter she never got her chili and would like it taken off the bill.  The waiter then looks down at Scott with a confused look, which Scott and myself are also both giving Sarah.  But the chili con queso is right there was his reply and Sarah just looked confused.  It turns out that Sarah had thought she was ordering chili, with a little cheese sprinkled on top and not the great mexican dip chili con queso. I laughed for a while and promised Sarah that if they ever came to Texas, I would take them to a real mexican or tex-mex resturant and order some real chili con queso, or we could get some chili.



   I also finished reading The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini last night, and while a pretty sad book, i would say it was a worth while read.  Basically its about a guy who goes back to Afghanistan to try and makeup for his cowardice as a child.  His dad and himself fled Afghanistan and left behind those he had betrayed.  15 or so years later, he is reminded of his past and given the chance to make up for what he did.  Next up is Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen, but i did just get in a couple of programming books about PHP, MySQL and Ruby on Rails, so who knows if i'll be reading or playing around with those.