a crazy lady and duck

Today our wee family went to town to get a new charger for my cellphone which had gone bust, possibly due to a few uncoordinated attempt on my part to connect the charger to the phone. Oops.

We were so proud that we found what we needed, all by ourselves, without anybody who knows the language better than us - so naturally we felt invincible and wanted to take it to the next level - going to the market by ourselves!!!

As we walked around looking at the different stalls, a lady came up to Alia (she (Alia, not the lady!) was strapped to me in her carrier) and "kissed" her face.
They don't really give babies kisses here, they just sniff their face.... Anyways, that was not weird in and off itself, Alia gets loads of sniffs here, she does not usually mind.
She has excepted that she is a cute, white baby in a culture that likes cute, white babies, so she just rolls with the sniffs.

The lady asked for Alia's name and I told her, no harm in that right?
We just kept on strolling through the market when I heard someone shouting Alia's name.
Sure enough the lady was following us and saying something I did not understand (happens all the time these days) plus Alia. It kinda freaked me out so we decided to get out of there.

Our motorbike was parked a little ways up the street so we walked in that direction and the lady was still following us. Not strolling anymore, but walking fast, we got to our motorbike, jumped on and as we were about to pull out of the parking space, the lady came at Alia with an open safety pin and tried to poke her with it.
Erlend and I realized about the same time what was going on (Alia never did, thankfully). We both stretched out our arms to keep the lady from poking Alia and screamed NO and we drove off as fast as we could.

Hm, written down it might not sound as dramatic, but I for my part, do not have a huge desire to go back to the market any time soon.

After such an 'eventful' afternoon we needed some chill time, so dinner with friends at a duck restaurant sounded like a good idea. They have the best duck in town and Alia is already a fan.

the duck restaurant comes with live music

 who would not wanna sniff some of that cuteness? :-)

This concludes another day in our lives which all the good, the bad and the crazy!