Shopping Trip

I managed to get out for a brief shopping trip yesterday. We stopped by a nearby grocery store, which was an odd experience. What a random cornucopia of items arranged in a random order. I did manage to find ice cream (from Turkey) which I was pretty excited about.

Then we stopped by a produce stand, which was lovely. It seems this country only has about six vegetables (tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplant, carrots, okra and bell peppers) but the fruit was quite lovely. We bought a few kilos each of tangerines, grapefruit, black figs, nectarines, carrots, and eggplant ... for the bargain price of 25,000 Iraqi dinars (about $18 US). I thought the stand rather picturesque, and snapped a shot. I was tempted to get a picture of the box in back that read "Washington Apples", too. That was one well-traveled box!