Night out @ Intercontinental kabul afghanistan

Monday morning…. I would usually hate this day if I were in the states, but right now I don’t hate it… Mondays are like Wednesdays for me, but this doesn’t mean that in 2 days I will be off, instead its in 3 days, I will be off! Ahahahahaaaa! Well yesterday after work I went home, and just laied on my bed.  It was too hot to do anything else.  After an hour or so of laying there I got up got ready again and took my son to the doctor.  A few days ago, after giving him a bath, I had found a round soft ball/knot under my sons rib cage, so I freaked out a little at first, but then I was ok… So we decided to go check out a doctor who works in the French Hospital here.  He checked it out, and found out that its nothing big.  He said that he is low on Vitamin D, so we need to take him out in the sun more often, at least for 10 minutes a day.  He also told us to go across the street to where the nurse is, and ask him to give him a shot of vit. D.  I had never heard of a shot of vit. D, it was my first time, but doctor knows best! J So now I have decided to take him outside the house to the yard every day for at least ten minutes when I get home from work.

After we had seen the doctor, we decided to go to the Intercontinental Hotel, for dinner, since I had heard so much about them.  The hotel was not that far from the doctors, so when we got the taxi and asked him how much he stated its 100.00 Afghani.   We said that we got here for 170.00 Af from Darluman, which was more further, he said no he can only do it for 100.00 Af. So we went in the taxi.  The hotel sits up on a hill with a beautiful view at night time.  You see the stars closer, and all the lights around the city, I LOVED IT! 

So we get inside, and it looks so nice.  Very elegant(for AFG LAND).  We go in, and I find out that they have live music, which was interesting.  So the waiter asks how many, we say 2, so he takes us to a table for who, and we sit.  He asks us for soup, and I say is it a buffet? He says yes, so I tell him we will go and get it ourselves then, he says ok.  So I look around and see all kinds of people.  Turkish, French, British, American, Indian, and of course Afghan.  It felt good being there.  My husband is sitting down with my son, so I tell him I will go get food for myself then you can go, he says ok. I go there and see lots of food, they were tasty, not bad, but of course not as tasty as a good old home cooking from my mom. . .  Later on after we had dinner and we were having dessert I noticed that there were more people coming, but they were Afghans.  There were a group of Kandahari men, which to me was a little scary.  There was no room for them so they decided to go out and eat in the patio, so it was a relieve for me!

After we eat, we get up to leave, and on our way out my husband notices the doctor that we took our son to, so I look back and see him, looking at us… We stood there to pay, and the guy says its 4900.00 af which is almost $60!!!!  I was like WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT???? IT WAS AN EXPENSIVE DINNER!!!  More expensive then the states!!!  Good thing I had a $50 bill on me!!  Or else who know what would of happened!!!  Ahahahahaaaa  My husband couldn’t believe it!!!  He was like good thing you had that $50 bill or else I would of dropped on the floor and died!! Ahahahaaaa  I said its ok, we didn’t know we thought it was $10 per person…  Finally we got home and I decided to just go to sleep because I was tired and hot….. I don’t think I would go their again, UNLESS some one else takes me, like my job, or my boss who had mentioned taking me and my husband there once, ORRRR if and WHEN Im loaded with $$$.