Shabbat, 1 June 2013

I slept well, got up fairly early, and had a good walk and a short work-out.

Seventeen years ago today, David & I were united in a beautiful ceremony at our synagogue in Los Angeles, Beth Chayim Chadashim. Most of our friends, my mom (z"l), my kids, my ex-wife, and even my ex-boyfriend were there to celebrate with us.

So, today we decided to mark our anniversary by driving up to the Dead Sea. I figured that, with all the nice hotels there, there would surely be some nice restaurants, too. In fact, I'm pretty sure there ARE, but they don't seem to put up signs, so I guess one would have to actually go into one of the hotels to find out. We finally found a small mall that had 3 eating places. The best was Café Café, but they were kosher and so were closed on Shabbat. Another was call Beefpoint, so that CLEARLY was not for us! I didn't see the name of the other one, but there were pictures of fish dishes and spaghetti. We decided to go in, and the menu seemed okay if a bit mundane. David ordered pasta with mushroom cream sauce, and I ordered a Greek salad. Both, unfortunately, were really quite bad. The "pasta" turned out to be rather blah spaghetti (which is a little hard for a blind person to eat, in any case), and its sauce was very runny (apparently thickener is beyond the capabilities of the chef there!). Perhaps the name of the place should have been a clue:  on the place mats and the napkins, in Hebrew but written in English letters, it said "Tapuach Sdom". Translation: Sodom Apple! Oy!

Anyway, it was a nice trip: a good drive, a nice look at the hotel district (where we had never been before), and some pleasant music in the car along the way.

After we came home, we got to talk with David's sister in Ohio, who is finally out of the hospital. Unfortunately, though, the transplanted kidney is still not working, so she's back on dialysis.

In the evening, we went over to Ice Park for frozen yogurt. We saw that they were getting ready for a show, so we stayed and watched the amazing skater from Bulgaria. Not only does she skate and dance beautifully on the ice, she also does astounding acrobatics on a ring that lifts her up high above the rink. This was a show I hadn't seen before, and the music was really cool, too. It sounded a little like tango music, but perhaps a bit more Eastern European. I don't know.