Afghan Arrival

We go to take another plane ride today. We got up really early again and went to the airport. We got our tickets and waited in a big line so Riley could get a pretty red stamp in his passport. I thought it was a little strange that he'd wait a long time for a pretty stamp, but he seemed to think that he had to.

Once we got on the plane, Riley said that he'd never seen a nicer 737. I liked the pretty blue lights on the ceiling. It made it seem like we were underwater.

Once we landed, I could tell right way that we were in a different place. Afghanistan looked a lot different than Dubai. Instead of big pretty buildings, Maseratis, and sandy beaches this place had big concrete walls, tents, and dirt. It also smelled like poop.

We went to a hotel to spend the night. This hotel wasn't nearly as pretty as the one in Dubai. It was actually a bunch of metal containers that were stacked on top of each other.

The rooms were actually pretty nice. It was really clean and I found a bed and a table. It seemed to make Riley happy, but I was hoping for a place to spin some cobwebs.

When we were walking around, I noticed a bunch of buildings that looked like square caves. The soldiers here call them bunkers. They are for protection if bad people shoot rockets or something called mortars at the base. It made me kind of sad that people would shoot things at the soldiers. Another soldier said that they usually sit in them to get some shade, though. He also said that most of them are full of mud and cobwebs. Hooray! That made me happy. Maybe I could use cobwebs to teach some soldiers Karate.

The next day we got up really early again. I don't know why humans like to get up so early all the time. I was getting tired of it. We were going to go to the airport again to catch another ride to where Riley is going to work, but it turned out that we couldn't fly anywhere because it was snowing.

Riley talked to the people at the airport and they said that it will probably be a few days before we can go anywhere. Hopefully that means I'll finally get some sleep.