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Month: September 2016

Joys of Cleaning & Water Reclaiming Dryers ?>

Joys of Cleaning & Water Reclaiming Dryers

We made it to our apartment! The location is ideal — it’s in a very safe neighborhood, incredibly close to the kid’s school, just down the road from a nice supermarket (just about as close as the Carnival was when we lived in Fort Worth — a block and a half maybe?), and very near a taxi stand with servees (shared taxis) running to the city center for 3 shekels a ride (about 75 cents). What wasn’t so ideal was…

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Observations from the Field ?>

Observations from the Field

So, we have been here for a little less than a week.  We still haven’t gotten to our final location, but we will be by tomorrow night!  I have however noticed a few things in the interim.  My children are completely unconcerned about everyone else speaking a different language than us.  Maybe this is normal for children, but most adults I know get freaked out and are constantly asking what others are saying.  There seems to be a ingrained part…

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Talking about Lunch ?>

Talking about Lunch

Today I’m going to talk about my lunch. I know, boring. But actually it was not so boring. I ate kebabs with lamb. Live lamb. I’ll be living the rest of my life on the lamb. Actually, it wasn’t live – it was dead and delicious. The restaurant was peculiar. It had many things and was decorated with many things. I saw a chess board and also a mannequin head. We walked to the restaurant in the Old City. None…

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The first time ?>

The first time

At the airplane, it was so fun.  We went into the airplane and we got to sleep overnight.  So after we slept, they served breakfast.  It was 2 in the morning.  That’s really early. So this guy, I don’t know what his name was, but this is funny.  So he held up my mom’s name.  So we got to go to one of those convertible things, that isn’t an escalator.  Instead of the stairs it is just going straight so…

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Traveling without cell service ?>

Traveling without cell service

Normal family travels (even or maybe especially to Target) include a lot of short calls saying, “Where are you?”  We got to Amsterdam and quickly realized that none of our phone solutions worked unless BOTH of us were connected to wifi and the connections kept dropping.  We had a couple of misadventures and even got directed to the “meeting point” once. Dan’s fix is to have a meeting point wherever we go.  My plan is to not split up until…

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