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Posts from ‘July, 2008’

Our Dinner

Not too much to blog about recently. No lack of things to do, in fact, too busy most days, with not too much time to blog. Not too much sightseeing lately either. So, I thought I’ll post and share something fairly ordinary - our dinner table. We have the main meal in the evening, when [...]

Such a Blue Day

I think it’s the music on the radio. When I work on my websites, I have one of the computers playing my favorite easy-listening radio station. It’s a military station, run by the IDF, but you have to know it to appreciate how secular, liberal and non-military it really is. Click here if you want [...]

Congratulations!

Are in order in our household. My brother and his wife now have a brand new and quite tiny beautiful little girl. Her name is Hope (Israeli/Hebrew name to be determined) and she’s a preemie, so still in the hospital. So, Contratulations Ofer and Fiona! And congratulations to the “bigger sisters” Edden and Yasmin! We [...]

Pictures from the Carmel Ridge

We had such a wonderful day today, just had to post and share our family adventure with pictures!
We went to the Carmel ridge, a beautiful place with green Mediterranean forest, peaks and valleys, empty stream beds (during summer) and limestone caves. No wonder it’s been inhabited by people for the past 200,000 years or so, [...]

You don’t mess with Israelis

At least not the ones called “Zohan”, which is really easy considering it’s not a real name in Hebrew and I have never heard of any Israeli called Zohan. Just got back home from “You don’t mess with the Zohan”, the Adam Sandler movie. It was even weirder than seeing Sacha Baron Cohen speak Hebrew [...]

Family Summer Days in Israel

Going over the pictures I just downloaded from our digital camera, there’s a few I’d like to share here today.
First, big congratulations to my special brother-in-law and his new fiance! He’s the guy on the right in the picture, IsraeliDad’s twin brother (not identical twins though) and he tied the knot with the charming girl [...]