The three of us didn’t always go to soccer games. We also spent many weekends going to movies or plays before finally settling into a regular routine of going hiking early Friday mornings at Tochal. The fact that Tochal was only a short walking distance from our house made it convenient for all of us as they would come over in the morning and by the end of the hike as we were all exhausted I would drive them back. On the way back on one occasion that Kamyar had also brought his cousin Nima along, as we reached our house Kamyar asked for a glass of water before we took off. Ardi and I went upstairs to get it for him but as we entered the kitchen found my mom preparing kalleh pacheh. As we began nibbling away at it we completely forgot about Kamyar and Nima. A good half-hour later we finally brought a pitcher of water downstairs to which Kamyar snapped at us, “Did you guys go and combine hydrogen and oxygen together to make the water for it to take this long?”