Puppet's in Holon

This photo was taken on the bus ride back from Holon after we spent the afternoon (last Wed.) at the Internation Puppet festival there. The festival was really terrific.

This was the beggining of a great play about a Kibbutznic who ultimately after many years has to retire his beloved tractor for the kids to play on in the Kindergarten playground. It was very dramatic and despite the fact that it was in Hebrew Sam was nearly in tears. It had a happy ending.

At Dayada

One day last week while Elliott rolled around moaning with a stomach virus, I took the kids to Dayada at the Namal (port). Dayada is a very cool Gymboree kind of place with baby yoga classes and no horrible primary colored plastic structures. It's full of beautiful young Israeli mothers with expensive strollers who sit around during and after their childrens' classes chatting in Hebrew. This makes it perfect to sit and read a book in as I have the pleasure of company but without distraction since I really don't understand anything.

Akiva and Sam were basically the only children in the playspace for most of the time we were there. The whole experience is kind of trance-y and serene (except for the music which happened to be from one of the Hebrew kids music videos we have at home.) Come and go all day for 40 shekles a kid. (None of this silliness of charging adults.) A pretty good deal for the air conditioning alone.

More great times at the Namal (port).

These photos are from last Friday when we visited Yaffo. They have a really great antiques and arts shuk but mostly we strolled through the very hot but charming streets. The kids were exhausted from the beginning. Above Akiva asked me to find out how much this kids sofa cost. It was more than he could afford and to big for our duffel bag anyhow. We went to lunch at the famous Dr. Shakshuka which specializes in Morrocan and North African food. Sarah and I had Shakshuka which is a spicy tomato soup with eggs. Th kids had the usual chicken shnitzel with ketchup.

More Sam Blog

This is our friend Ruthie. Ruthie is silly. She is cuckoo. She is taking cigerette butts and putting them in a pile in this big sandbox.

This is my friend's Jonah, Noam and Adira. We know them from the synagogue. They are checking the place out.

A Sam Post

I had a fun time and this all about it. This is right after we went to the beach. It is fun. It is pretty high. It is fun.

Kiva's comments on Kiva's photos

These are glass windows that are part of a synagogue called the Great Synagogue. I took these pictures because they are pretty. See the top one - it is supposed to be a snake.

This one has all of the pictures.

Can you see the white curve at the top of this building? It is the moon. This structure is getting made.

This is a model of part of Tel Aviv.