End of Ramadan

Once again i have waited far too long to update this. I think I recently wrote about Ramadan. Well, I fasted the entire month except for five days. :) I explained most of what happens in my town in my Ramadan post of last year. We broke fast at the second to last call to prayer, basically at sunset. Then most people went to bed at their normal time and woke up at 3:30am. There was a drummer who came by to wake everyone up. Most people had real dinners at this hour while I, on the other had, tended to have a snack like a smoothie or yogurt and fruit. I just couldn't do the full dinner at this hour.
I broke fast at someone's house almost every night of Ramadan. The photo below is actually from one of the houses that I went to. The break fast meal was usually bread heavy and very sweet. Everyone breaks fast with a date and then digs in :) At this particular fdr(breakfast) there was also hard boiled egss, shebekiya(honey covered sweet), a few kinds of moroccan bread, "berber pizza," cake and many other yummy things. The meal is always accompanied by sweet mint tea or coffee. After the bready meal, everyone gets a bowl of soup. The soup is called Harira and is usually tomato based and has chickpeas, pasta and sometimes veggies. The soup was usually my favorite part. Though, everyone has the same basic meal it was really interesting to see how each house had slight differences. I really enjoyed Ramadan despite the difficulty of fasting. Ramadan ended on the 20th of september so now we're back to normal eating schedules, hamdullah.